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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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1. 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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2. Freedom from pathogenic organisms in a specific area - Clean' vs 'Soiled' - patient or in patient's room - Achieved by: Confining pathogens within a given area - Limiting growth & numbers of pathogens - Limiting transmission of pathogens from place
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Full stage of illness
3. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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4. 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
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
5. 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
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
What antiseptic does
Perceived loss
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
6. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Enuresis
7. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Susceptible Host
Reservoir
What antiseptic does
8. 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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9. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
micturition - urination - or voiding
10. Only in animal products
Combination Directive
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Incubation period
11. Equal care & rights for all
Symptoms of UTI
Factors affecting grief and dying
Social Justice
urinary retention
12. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Functional Incontinence
Ethical dilemma
13. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Hospice Care
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Functional Incontinence
14. 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
Factors affecting a vegan diet
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
15. 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
Definition of acute illness
Signs of patient nearing death
Pre - operative assessment includes
Deception
16. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Combination Directive
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Advance Directives
Symptoms of UTI
17. Stool production will usually not begin for a few days after surgery - surgery inhibits peristalsis - patient has been NPO - enemas to cleanse prior - Mucus may be passed from stoma prior to production of stool - Colostomy may require irrigation
Factors that affect a patients health state
What is adpie & why do we use it
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
18. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Abdominal physical assessment
chronic illness
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
19. A tool nurses use to think critically - solve problems - & evaluate the way they care for patients. Dynamic - systematic or ever changing - depending on patient & all variables that impact patient - Helps nurse think about outcomes for patients & is
Nursing role with grief and death
What is adpie & why do we use it
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
20. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Altruism
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Surgical Classification - emergent
21. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Affective teaching strategy
Psychomotor learning
Diagnostic surgery
Ethical distress
22. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Susceptible Host
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Serous wound drainage
Comfort Measures Only
23. 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
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Nursing role with grief and death
Causes of food poisoning
Incontinence
24. 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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25. Body part or function
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Physical loss
26. HDL - 'good' type
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Reservoir
Physical loss
27. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Virus
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
What antiseptic does
28. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Portal of Entry
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
29. So patient should be taught to splint the incision (support with pillow or folded bath blanket) & cough during period after pain medication has been administered
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Often painful
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
30. 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
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Definition of acute illness
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Sanguineous wound drainage
31. Bladder - nervous system damage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Psychomotor learning
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
32. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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33. Hematest & guaiac test are chemical tests commonly used - False - positive results - from ingesting red meat - animal liver & kidneys - salmon - tuna - mackerel & sardines - tomatoes - cauliflower - horseradish - turnips - melon - bananas - & soybean
Affective learning
How one provides continuity of care
Test used for determng blood in stool
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
34. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Postmortem Care
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
35. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Full stage of illness
Community Factors Affecting Health
Psychomotor teaching strategy
36. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Diagnostic surgery
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Anticipatory loss
37. 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
What elevates HDL
Components of a clear liquid diet
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Cognitive learning
38. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Actual loss
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Portal of Exit
Factors affecting UTI's
39. 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
Psychological loss
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Factors that affect a patients health state
Hospice Care
40. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
Causes of food poisoning
Surgical asepsis
Pre - operative assessment includes
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
41. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Pallative Care
42. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Bacteria
43. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
DNR and the nurse's duty
Ethical dilemma
Ileostomy -
44. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Deception
Enuresis
Factors that affect a patients health state
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
45. Can be harmful if taken in large amounts - All nutrients work with others to promote good health - Adding large amounts of one vitamin can make the body believe it is deficient in another vitamin - Food is the best source of nutrients - Supplements s
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Test used for determng blood in stool
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
46. 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
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Factors that affect a patients health state
urinary retention
47. Bowel sounds - auscultate every 4 hrs when patient is awake - reduced or absent; should return within 8-24 hrs after surgery - Distention - assess; esp. if bowel sounds are absent or high - pitched (could indicate paralytic ileus) - Is there an infe
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Virus
48. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Reconstructive surgery
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Incontinence
49. Keep promises
Fidelity
Smoking destroys What type of fat
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Incubation period
50. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Susceptibility
Full stage of illness
Stress Incontinence