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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ensure that food is safe for consumption & prepared & stored properly - Never purchase food with damaged packaging - Take items that require refrigeration home immediately - Never use raw eggs in any form - Cook ground meat thoroughly; should not hav
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Autonomy
Deception
Ways to prevent food poisoning
2. 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
3. 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
solube fiber
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
4. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Signs of patient nearing death
urinary retention
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
5. 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
solube fiber
Factors that affect a patients health state
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Human Dimensions of Health
6. 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
Full stage of illness
Pre - operative assessment includes
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
7. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
8. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Post - operative complications Coughing
Ethical distress
Components of a clear liquid diet
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
9. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Justice
chronic illness
Cognitive teaching strategy
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
10. 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
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
How one provides continuity of care
Stoma Care Cleansing
Surgical classifications: Urgent
11. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Justice
solube fiber
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
'informed consent'
12. 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
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Advocacy
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
How to stimulate a patients appetite
13. 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
Definition of acute illness
Surgical Classification - emergent
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Components of a clear liquid diet
14. 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
Enuresis
TPN
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Pre - operative assessment includes
15. Inspect
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Abdominal physical assessment
Nursing role with grief and death
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
16. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Anticipatory loss
Factors affecting a vegan diet
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
17. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Human dignity
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Reservoir
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
18. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
Altruism
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Affective teaching strategy
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
19. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
DNR and the nurse's duty
Reconstructive surgery
chronic illness
Definition of acute illness
20. Frequency & amount of stools - history of diarrhea - constipation - impaction - Any abnormality of stool appearance - Use of laxatives or enemas - Dietary habits - food allergies - fluids - fiber - Amount of activity & exercise - Medications - Stress
Paternalism
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Ways to prevent food poisoning
21. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
22. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
Comfort Measures Only
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Affective teaching strategy
What is adpie & why do we use it
23. 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
micturition - urination - or voiding
Bacteria
24. 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
What elevates HDL
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Factors affecting grief and dying
25. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Reservoir
Palliative surgery
Reconstructive surgery
Hospice Care
26. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
DNR and the nurse's duty
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
27. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Bacteria
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Perceived loss
28. Bladder - nervous system damage
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Diagnostic surgery
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Human dignity
29. 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
Urge Incontinence
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Stoma Care Assessments
Purulent wound drainage
30. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Affective teaching strategy
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
31. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Enuresis
32. 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
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Nursing role with grief and death
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Ablative surgery
33. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
Reservoir
Advance Directives
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Terminal weaning from ventilator
34. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
35. 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
Anticipatory loss
Deception
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Actual loss
36. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
37. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Integrity
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Stress Incontinence
Virus
38. 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
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Reconstructive surgery
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Convalescent period
39. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Susceptible Host
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Psychomotor learning
40. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Serous wound drainage
TPN
Psychological loss
Ways to prevent food poisoning
41. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Nonmaleficence
42. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
'informed consent'
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Susceptibility
Altruism
43. Loss that is yet to come
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Anticipatory loss
44. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Beneficence
Justice
chronic illness
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
45. 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
Diagnostic surgery
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ablative surgery
46. Inability to swallow - Pitting edema - Decreased GI & GU activity - Incontinence - Loss of motion - sensation - reflexes - Elevated temp but cold - clammy skin - Cyanosis - Lowered BP - Noisy - irregular respirations - Cheyne - Stokes - May
Signs of patient nearing death
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
47. 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
Factors that affect a patients health state
What elevates HDL
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
48. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Advance Directives
Fidelity
Portal of Entry
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
49. 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
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Ileostomy -
Palliative surgery
50. Current Trends in Nursing - Nursing shortage - Evidence - based practice - Community- based nursing - Decreased length of hospital stay - Aging population - Increase in chronic care conditions - Independent nursing practice - Culturally competent ca
Human Dimensions of Health
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Smoking destroys What type of fat