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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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1. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Actual loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
2. 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
Bacteria
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Factors affecting a vegan diet
3. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Reservoir
Post - operative complications Coughing
Factors affecting grief and dying
Slow Code
4. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
solube fiber
Deception
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
5. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Ethical dilemma
Serous wound drainage
Justice
6. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
urinary retention
What disinfectant does
Physical loss
Fecal Occult Blood Test
7. Developmental considerations - child has limited understanding but needs to grieve - Family - Who has died - Socioeconomics - financial burden or loss; Cause of Death - Culture - Gender - Religion
Cognitive learning
Factors affecting grief and dying
Fidelity
Integrity
8. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
9. Brings small intestine to surface - usually the ileum - stool is always liquid - may drain liquid stool without any control OR - can create inverted nipple & pouch 'continent ostomy' so stool is retained until catheter is inserted to drain OR - diver
Human Dimensions of Health
Ileostomy -
Nursing role with grief and death
Justice
10. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Often painful
Pre - operative assessment includes
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
11. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Symptoms of UTI
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Actual loss
12. Bladder - nervous system damage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Human Dimensions of Health
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
How to stimulate a patients appetite
13. HDL - 'good' type
Causes of food poisoning
What disinfectant does
Smoking destroys What type of fat
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
14. 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
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Reservoir
Serous wound drainage
15. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Maturational loss
Actual loss
16. Medications - narcotics - iron preparations - chronic use of stimulant laxatives - antibiotics - Constipation or diarrhea is common side effect of meds Treat Constipation: - increasing fiber - fluids - activity - allowing time daily - may use bulk
Beneficence
chronic illness
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
17. 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
Nonmaleficence
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Living Wills
18. 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
Causes of food poisoning
Terminal Illness
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
19. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Diagnostic surgery
Combination Directive
Fecal Occult Blood Test
20. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Reconstructive surgery
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Incubation period
21. 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
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
What antiseptic does
Signs of patient nearing death
22. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
Nursing role with grief and death
Nonmaleficence
Physical loss
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
23. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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24. Oxygen; skin color - V/S - mental responsiveness; Intake & elimination of fluids;I & O - skin turgor - weight - mucous membranes; Food;weight - muscle mass - labs; Temperature;Physical activity;Rest & sleep
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25. Complete lack of control over urination
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Community Factors Affecting Health
26. For bowel diversions that bring portion of small or large intestine to abdominal surface for stool elimination - Permanent or temporary diversion - If permanent - may do abdominal - perineal resection to close off rectum & anal area (esp. if cancer i
ostomy
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Beneficence
27. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Causes of food poisoning
Ileostomy -
28. 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.
Combination Directive
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
29. Anatomical position - Removal of soiled dressings & tubes - Who will bathe the body? - Identification tags - Personal items - Order to release body / mortuary notification - Special handling for communicable disease
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Postmortem Care
Overflow Incontinence
Sanguineous wound drainage
30. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Purulent wound drainage
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
31. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Living Wills
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Cognitive teaching strategy
32. Altered self - image
Psychological loss
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Actual loss
33. 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
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
'informed consent'
Hospice Care
34. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Stoma Care Cleansing
Palliative surgery
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
35. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Causes of food poisoning
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
36. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Nursing role with grief and death
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Paternalism
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
37. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Affective teaching strategy
Situational loss
Comfort Measures Only
Hospice Care
38. Allow individual to state in advance What their choices would be should certain circumstances develop
Beneficence
Human dignity
Advance Directives
Portal of Entry
39. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Causes of food poisoning
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Convalescent period
40. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Ablative surgery
Autonomy
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
41. 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 -
Post - operative complications Coughing
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Full stage of illness
42. Patient's voluntary agreement to undergo a procedure or treatment after receiving the following information in layman's terms: Description of procedures & potential alternatives - Underlying disease process & its course - Name & qualifications of per
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43. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
'informed consent'
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Psychomotor teaching strategy
TPN
44. Equal care & rights for all
Social Justice
micturition - urination - or voiding
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Fidelity
45. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Post - operative complications Coughing
Perceived loss
solube fiber
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
46. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Serous wound drainage
Enuresis
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Incubation period
47. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Integrity
Terminal weaning from ventilator
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Nursing Ethics
48. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Susceptibility
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Actual loss
49. 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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50. 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
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Justice
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
How to stimulate a patients appetite