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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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health-sciences
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Factors affecting UTI's
Psychomotor learning
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Surgical Classification - emergent
2. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
3. Complete lack of control over urination
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Portal of Exit
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
4. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Signs of patient nearing death
chronic illness
5. Backrubs- Warm / cold compresses - Auditory / visual stimuli - TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) - Acupuncture - Placebos - Analgesics - Endorphins - natural analgesic activated by stress & pain - Medications - IV - PO - PCA - Epidu
Ablative surgery
Fidelity
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Surgicale Classification - elective
6. 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
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7. Procedure that is preplanned & based on the patient's choice & availability of scheduling for the patient - surgeon - & facility; Non - urgent; does not have to be done immediately
Surgicale Classification - elective
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Overflow Incontinence
Autonomy
8. Altered self - image
Psychological loss
Incontinence
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
9. HDL - 'good' type
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ileostomy -
Functional Incontinence
Smoking destroys What type of fat
10. Physical - genetic inheritance - age - developmental level - race - & gender - Emotional - how the mind affects body function & responds to body conditions - Intellectual - cognitive abilities - educational background - & past experiences - Environme
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Human Dimensions of Health
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
pre - operative assessments & screenings
11. Body part or function
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Physical loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Living Wills
12. Inability to empty bladder
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Maturational loss
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
13. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Smoking destroys What type of fat
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
14. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
Post - operative complications Often painful
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Surgical Classification - emergent
15. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Actual loss
Post - operative complications Often painful
Challenges to health care access
16. 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
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Surgicale Classification - elective
cleasing enema
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
17. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
Virus
'informed consent'
Serosanguineous wound drainage
What antiseptic does
18. collected during midstream - first small amount of urine voided helps to flush away any organisms near the meatus - urine voided at midstream is most characteristic of urine body is producing - patient voids & discards a small amount of urine; contin
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Stress Incontinence
19. skin should be intact - free of redness - Watch for any irritation - rash - signs of infection - Erosion around stoma can cause stoma to become flat or indented
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Diagnostic surgery
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
20. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Postmortem Care
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
21. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
Reservoir
splinting and its use in the health care setting
TPN
Factors affecting grief and dying
22. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Urge Incontinence
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
What is adpie & why do we use it
23. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Nursing Ethics
Symptoms of UTI
24. Absence of basic human needs results in illness - Presence of basic human needs helps prevent illness or signals health - Meeting basic human needs restores health - One feels something missing when needs are unmet - One feels satisfaction when need
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25. Death expected within a limited period of time - What patient needs to know - how disease will progress; go through stages of grief; support in decision making; right to consent to or refuse any & all treatment - What family needs to know - how disea
Test used for determng blood in stool
Terminal Illness
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Definition of acute illness
26. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Fidelity
Symptoms of UTI
Causes of food poisoning
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
27. In the case of cardiopulmonary or respiratory arrest - calling a code & resuscitating the patient are to be delayed until these measures will be ineffectual.
Slow Code
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Palliative surgery
28. identify factors that may place the patient at greater risk for complications during & after surgery - often conducted several days before surgery as part of pre - operative laboratory screening & teaching
Paternalism
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Diagnostic surgery
pre - operative assessments & screenings
29. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Psychomotor learning
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Actual loss
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
30. Primary commitment to the patient; Priority is good of individual patient rather than society in general;Evaluation of competing claims of patient's autonomy & patient well - being
Advocacy
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Surgical asepsis
31. provided for people with limited life expectancy - often in the home - focuses on the needs of the dying - comfort & dignity; encompasses biomedical - psychosocial - & spiritual aspects
Palliative surgery
Hospice Care
Ileostomy -
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
32. 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
solube fiber
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
splinting and its use in the health care setting
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
33. Keep promises
What antiseptic does
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Fidelity
Cognitive teaching strategy
34. 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
How one provides continuity of care
What elevates HDL
Signs of patient nearing death
Justice
35. - Peel fruits & vegetables - Eat dry foods & foods that are piping hot & cooked thoroughly - avoid tap water - ice cubes - fruit juice - fresh salads - unpasteurized dairy products - cold sauces & toppings - open buffets - & undercooked or reheate
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36. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Combination Directive
Postmortem Care
Fidelity
Maturational loss
37. Inspect
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Abdominal physical assessment
Characteristics of a colostomy
38. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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39. Give each his/her due & act fairly
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Justice
Slow Code
Psychomotor learning
40. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Full stage of illness
41. Pain reported by patient is determining factor of pain control - Assess pain q 2 hrs after major surgery - Older patient is at risk for undertreatment & overtreatment of pain
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Post - operative complications Often painful
Pallative Care
42. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Terminal Illness
solube fiber
43. Legal document that protects patient - physician - & healthcare institution - Person who is performing procedure (physician) is responsible for securing consent & explaining procedure to patient - Nurse signs as a witness - signifying that patient si
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44. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Ethical distress
Community Factors Affecting Health
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
45. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Ileostomy -
How one provides continuity of care
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Cognitive learning
46. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Ileostomy -
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
What elevates HDL
Psychomotor teaching strategy
47. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Terminal Illness
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Characteristics of a colostomy
48. Total Parenteral Nutrition - nutritional therapy that bypasses the GI tract for patients who are unable to take food orally; meets patient's nutritional needs by way of nutrient - filled solutions administered intravenously through a central vein
TPN
Cognitive teaching strategy
Overflow Incontinence
splinting and its use in the health care setting
49. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Enuresis
Stress Incontinence
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
50. To remove a diseased body part (Ex: appendectomy - amputation)
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Ablative surgery