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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
How to stimulate a patients appetite
ostomy
Justice
Affective teaching strategy
2. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Full stage of illness
Surgical Classification - emergent
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Deception
3. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Susceptibility
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
4. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
Convalescent period
Sanguineous wound drainage
Surgical Classification - emergent
Surgical asepsis
5. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Situational loss
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Components of a clear liquid diet
6. Provide information on What is happening - Provide private area to grieve - Allow family time alone with patient before & after death - if so desired - Assist with contacting mortician - May attend funeral services
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7. Inability to empty bladder
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
ostomy
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
8. Brings large intestine to surface Can be created anywhere along large intestine - Consistency of stool depends on how far stool travels through colon before diversion - May be able to train bowel to evacuate at same time each day - if solid stool
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Characteristics of a colostomy
Serosanguineous wound drainage
9. Process by which healthcare providers give appropriate - uninterrupted care & facilitate the patient's transition between different setting & levels of care - Teaching patient & family - self - care - medications - Involve patient & family in care p
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
How one provides continuity of care
Incubation period
Terminal weaning from ventilator
10. Hand Hygiene - Wash - before & after touching patient; before & after wearing gloves - Alchohol - based handrubs - if hands are not visibly soiled - Soap & water - if hands are visibly soiled or contaminated with blood or body fluids; wash for 15 sec
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
11. Diet - should include adequate fiber or bulk - Whole grains - fruits - vegetables - legumes - Eating at regular intervals helps stimulate peristalsis (gastrocolic reflex) - Food allergies or food poisoning may lead to diarrhea - Some foods cause
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
solube fiber
Community Factors Affecting Health
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
12. Result of natural development
Portal of Entry
Maturational loss
Deception
Symptoms of UTI
13. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Altruism
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Ileostomy -
Post - operative complications Coughing
14. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
urinary retention
Stoma Care Assessments
Comfort Measures Only
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
15. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
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16. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
micturition - urination - or voiding
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
How to stimulate a patients appetite
17. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Surgical asepsis
Surgicale Classification - elective
Symptoms of UTI
18. Containing or mixed with blood
Sanguineous wound drainage
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Terminal Illness
Signs of patient nearing death
19. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Portal of Entry
Convalescent period
urinary retention
20. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Stoma Care Cleansing
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Definition of acute illness
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
21. Stool production will usually not begin for a few days after surgery - surgery inhibits peristalsis - patient has been NPO - enemas to cleanse prior - Mucus may be passed from stoma prior to production of stool - Colostomy may require irrigation to
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Post - operative complications Coughing
Functional Incontinence
Ways to prevent food poisoning
22. Most common nosocomial infection (esp. in elderly) - may cause systemic infections in elderly - more common in females - urethra is shorter; urinary meatus is closer to anus - E. coli - cause of most UTI's - Risk Factors - Sexually active female - ca
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23. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Ethical dilemma
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Causes of food poisoning
24. Patients who require in - hospital care are more acutely ill or injured than in the past - Length of stay has decreased; Often leads to re - admissions - Nurses in hospitals must have knowledge & skills to perform complex care to very ill patients
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Cognitive teaching strategy
Fidelity
25. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Components of a clear liquid diet
26. Health - state of complete physical - mental - & social well being - not merely the absence of disease - Wellness - active state - oriented toward maximizing the potential of the individual
Incubation period
Factors that affect a patients health state
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
27. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Convalescent period
Beneficence
Portal of Entry
28. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Diagnostic surgery
Functional Incontinence
Fecal Occult Blood Test
29. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Bacteria
Perceived loss
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
What disinfectant does
30. Body part or function
Factors affecting UTI's
Hospice Care
Cognitive learning
Physical loss
31. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Factors affecting UTI's
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
32. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Affective learning
Full stage of illness
Cognitive learning
33. Works to stimulate peristalsis by distending & irritating bowel - Used to remove stool and/or flatus - relieve constipation or fecal impaction - prevent escape of fecal material during surgical procedures - promote visualization of GI tract by radiog
cleasing enema
Ethical dilemma
Human dignity
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
34. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Social Justice
What elevates HDL
Cognitive teaching strategy
Slow Code
35. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Definition of acute illness
solube fiber
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
36. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Advocacy
Test used for determng blood in stool
What is adpie & why do we use it
Actual loss
37. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Portal of Entry
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Nursing role with grief and death
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
38. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Human dignity
Cognitive learning
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
39. Altered self - image
Deception
Social Justice
Actual loss
Psychological loss
40. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Urge Incontinence
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Ethical dilemma
41. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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42. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Nursing Ethics
Palliative surgery
Maturational loss
43. Medicate for pain - N/V - Rest periods before each meal - Offer mouth care prior to each meal - Be sure dentures are clean & in mouth - Offer foods patient likes & can eat - Cold - soft foods may be better tolerated - Smaller portions - More frequent
Enuresis
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Maturational loss
44. Lab / Screenings - Chest x- ray - is there fluid or anything pressing on the heart? - ECG - heart health - circulatory - ischemia - CBC - WBC's - infection - RBC's - platelets - bleeding time - Chemistry profile - Urinalysis
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Enuresis
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
cleasing enema
45. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Enuresis
Factors affecting grief and dying
Definition of acute illness
Autonomy
46. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Cognitive teaching strategy
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Ileostomy -
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
47. Inspect
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Abdominal physical assessment
48. Build - up of fat - cholesterol & calcium on inside of artery walls - Leads to hardening of walls with loss of elasticity or ability to expand fully - Plaque build up roughens walls so clotting factors can stick to walls - Plaque narrows lumen of art
Symptoms of UTI
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Paternalism
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
49. Cholesterol: Heredity is biggest factor in how body produces - handles - & excretes cholesterol - Type & amount of fat in diet - Saturated fats: carry cholesterol and stimulate liver to make cholesterol - Higher fat diets can elevate cholesterol blo
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Challenges to health care access
50. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Susceptible Host
Surgicale Classification - elective
Pallative Care