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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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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. 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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2. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Convalescent period
TPN
3. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Challenges to health care access
Convalescent period
Susceptibility
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
4. North American Nursing Diagnosis Association is a way to define what nurses can diagnose in the nursing realm & a way to find interventions & outcomes. Nursing Diagnosis must be a NAndA approved diagnosis - NIC - Nursing Interventions Classification
Cognitive learning
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Physical loss
5. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Paternalism
Human dignity
Incontinence
6. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
micturition - urination - or voiding
Integrity
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Deception
7. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
Portal of Exit
What antiseptic does
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Affective teaching strategy
8. Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen): obtain correct container & preservative or ice if needed - Instruct patient/family about collection - Begin with empty bladder - end with empty bladder - Have patient void before beginning - Have patien
Signs of patient nearing death
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Pallative Care
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
9. Process of emptying the bladder
How one provides continuity of care
micturition - urination - or voiding
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Reservoir
10. Regular exercise
'informed consent'
Cognitive learning
What elevates HDL
Serous wound drainage
11. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations
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12. I & O - monitor for fluid volume deficit or overload - Bladder distention - assess by palpating above pubic symphysis if patient has not voided within 8 hrs after surgery or if patient has been voiding frequently in amounts less than 50 mL
Psychomotor learning
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
DNR and the nurse's duty
13. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Urge Incontinence
Purulent wound drainage
Perceived loss
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
14. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Slow Code
Post - operative complications Coughing
Diagnostic surgery
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
15. 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
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Affective teaching strategy
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
16. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Actual loss
Physical loss
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Virus
17. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
splinting and its use in the health care setting
DNR and the nurse's duty
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Care Cleansing
18. Statement of ethical obligations & duties of every person who enters practice of nursing; Non - negotiable ethical standard; Expression of nursing's own understanding of commitment to society
Nursing Ethics
Pre - operative assessment includes
Diagnostic surgery
Combination Directive
19. Personal emotional involvement - Need to explore own beliefs about death - Burn - out from work in areas of frequent death - Critical Care - ER - Hospice - Long Term Care
Nursing role with grief and death
Surgical Classification - emergent
What is adpie & why do we use it
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
20. 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
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Incubation period
pre - operative assessments & screenings
micturition - urination - or voiding
21. 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
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Nursing Ethics
Human Dimensions of Health
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
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. 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
Virus
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
24. Complete lack of control over urination
Justice
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
25. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Factors affecting a vegan diet
26. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Functional Incontinence
Comfort Measures Only
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
27. 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
Hospice Care
Incubation period
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
28. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
ostomy
Ethical distress
Factors affecting grief and dying
Psychomotor learning
29. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Hospice Care
micturition - urination - or voiding
Nursing role with grief and death
30. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Incontinence
What is adpie & why do we use it
Post - operative complications Often painful
Incubation period
31. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Bacteria
32. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Challenges to health care access
Nursing Ethics
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Advocacy
33. Equal care & rights for all
Slow Code
Stress Incontinence
Functional Incontinence
Social Justice
34. 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
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Nursing role with grief and death
35. Disposable one - piece bags may be used at first - will have karaya or stomahesive attached - After stoma is stable - two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag w
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Psychomotor learning
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
36. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Living Wills
Test used for determng blood in stool
Terminal Illness
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
37. Teach patient & family that pain meds will be ordered by physician & administered by nurse - Patient should ask for pain meds before pain becomes severe - A different med can be ordered if the med does not control pain or has unpleasant side effects
Ethical dilemma
Cognitive learning
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
38. 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
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Stoma Care Cleansing
39. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Enuresis
Reconstructive surgery
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
40. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Stoma Care Assessments
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
41. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Advocacy
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
42. Keep promises
Comfort Measures Only
Deception
solube fiber
Fidelity
43. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Factors affecting UTI's
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Full stage of illness
44. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Terminal weaning from ventilator
45. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
What antiseptic does
What disinfectant does
Nursing Ethics
46. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
47. 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
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Bacteria
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
cleasing enema
48. Code of ethics; accountability
Post - operative complications Coughing
Integrity
Serous wound drainage
Factors affecting UTI's
49. Allow individual to state in advance What their choices would be should certain circumstances develop
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Social Justice
Advance Directives
Characteristics of a colostomy
50. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Reconstructive surgery
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Affective teaching strategy
Test used for determng blood in stool