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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Reservoir
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
2. Loss that is yet to come
Anticipatory loss
Bacteria
Causes of food poisoning
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
3. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
Community Factors Affecting Health
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Pre - operative assessment includes
Challenges to health care access
4. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Psychological loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
DNR and the nurse's duty
5. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Human Dimensions of Health
Actual loss
Reconstructive surgery
pre - operative assessments & screenings
6. 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
Nonmaleficence
Physical loss
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
7. 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
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Integrity
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
8. HDL - 'good' type
Post - operative complications Often painful
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
9. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Pre - operative assessment includes
urinary retention
Ethical dilemma
10. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Community Factors Affecting Health
11. Should be moist & red or pink if circulation is adequate - Pale or bluish indicates problem - bleeds easily (mucosa) but amount is minimal - Very edematous at first - but will shrink down to normal size as healing occurs (6-8 weeks) - Protrude above
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Stoma Care Assessments
urinary retention
Psychomotor learning
12. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Perceived loss
Psychomotor learning
Maturational loss
Factors affecting UTI's
13. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Causes of food poisoning
solube fiber
Incubation period
Reconstructive surgery
14. Complete lack of control over urination
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Affective learning
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Total (reflex) Incontinence
15. Regular exercise
Pre - operative assessment includes
Altruism
What elevates HDL
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
16. Assess for: - illness - fever - fatigue - N/V - medications - can alter taste or decrease appetite (chemo - steroids) - poor fitting dentures - no teeth - bad teeth - mouth problems - lesions - inflamed mucosa - pain - dislike of certain foods - unfa
Definition of acute illness
TPN
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Living Wills
17. Should be cut 1/8 inch larger than stoma to protect skin & avoid stoma rub - may use charcoal or other deodorizer in bag to control odor - Bismuth subgallate oral also controls odor
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Community Factors Affecting Health
Portal of Entry
18. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Factors that affect a patients health state
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
urinary retention
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
19. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Advance Directives
Virus
20. Inspect
Ileostomy -
Urge Incontinence
Portal of Entry
Abdominal physical assessment
21. Liquids can have color but must be able to see through (Coffee is ok) - No milk products - Nutritionally inadequate over time - Used as preparation for surgery - diagnostic studies - post - operative advancement - Hydrates - rests GI tract - N
Components of a clear liquid diet
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Deception
22. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Social Justice
Surgical asepsis
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
'informed consent'
23. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Palliative surgery
Ethical dilemma
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
24. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Reservoir
Affective teaching strategy
25. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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26. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Stress Incontinence
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Terminal Illness
Symptoms of UTI
27. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
28. 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
Actual loss
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Human Dimensions of Health
29. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
Ethical distress
Surgical Classification - emergent
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Symptoms of UTI
30. Deep breathing (TCDB - Turn - Cough - Deep Breathing) - During surgery - cough reflex is suppresses - mucus accumulates - & lungs do not ventilate fully. After surgery - respirations are less effective due to anesthesia - pain meds - & pain - hyperv
Combination Directive
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Psychomotor learning
Portal of Entry
31. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
TPN
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Ethical dilemma
32. Health history & physical assessment within 24 hrs of surgery to identify risk factors & allergies - Identifying medications & treatments patient is currently receiving - surgery cancels all prior medication orders (Ex: no cumadin - Plavix - aspirin
Maturational loss
Integrity
Ablative surgery
Pre - operative assessment includes
33. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors affecting a vegan diet
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
34. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Nonmaleficence
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Stoma Care Cleansing
35. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Definition of acute illness
Hospice Care
Abdominal physical assessment
ostomy
36. Maintain patient confidentiality within legal & regulatory parameters - Act as patient advocates - Deliver care in nonjudgmental manner & are sensitive to diversity - Deliver care that protects patient autonomy - dignity - & rights - Seek available
Stoma Care Assessments
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Susceptibility
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
37. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Paternalism
Surgicale Classification - elective
Overflow Incontinence
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
38. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
chronic illness
Ways to help a patient manage pain
What disinfectant does
39. Difficulty or painful urination
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
What elevates HDL
40. Collect from specimen port on drainage tubing - Cleanse with alcohol & use sterile syringe to pull out urine - Collect urine only from upper tubing - never from drainage bag - Urinalysis - collect 30 mL; Culture & Sensitivity (C&S) - collect 10 mL -
Test used for determng blood in stool
Incontinence
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nonmaleficence
41. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Nursing role with grief and death
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Smoking destroys What type of fat
42. Containing or mixed with blood
Sanguineous wound drainage
Enuresis
Slow Code
micturition - urination - or voiding
43. 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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44. 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
Portal of Exit
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Physical loss
45. Do - not - resuscitate - an order specifying that there be no attempt to resuscitate a patient in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest - Nurse is obligated to attempt CPR if there is no DNR order - Nurse should clarify the patient's code status: if th
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46. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Incontinence
Psychological loss
Palliative surgery
Deception
47. 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
Pre - operative assessment includes
ostomy
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Terminal Illness
48. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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49. Two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag without disturbing seal on skin - bag is changed only when it leaks or seal is lost - opening in karaya should be cut 1/8
Living Wills
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
50. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Definition of acute illness
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern