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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Portal of Entry
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Stoma Care Assessments
Reservoir
2. 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
Stress Incontinence
Serous wound drainage
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
3. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
What is adpie & why do we use it
chronic illness
Challenges to health care access
Test used for determng blood in stool
4. 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
Surgicale Classification - elective
Palliative surgery
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Nonmaleficence
5. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Overflow Incontinence
Enuresis
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Pre - operative assessment includes
6. 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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7. Bladder - nervous system damage
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Psychological loss
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
8. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ileostomy -
Purulent wound drainage
Total (reflex) Incontinence
9. 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
Affective teaching strategy
Retention - Altered urine pattern
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
10. 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
TPN
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Pallative Care
11. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Ethical distress
Fungi
Virus
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
12. Loss that is yet to come
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Stress Incontinence
Anticipatory loss
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
13. 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
Comfort Measures Only
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
14. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Functional Incontinence
Enuresis
How one provides continuity of care
Living Wills
15. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
Factors affecting grief and dying
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Coughing
Stress Incontinence
16. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Stoma Care Cleansing
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
17. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Human Dimensions of Health
Definition of acute illness
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Challenges to health care access
18. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Living Wills
Incontinence
cleasing enema
19. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Comfort Measures Only
Portal of Entry
Abdominal physical assessment
Ways to prevent food poisoning
20. Provide information on What is happening - Provide private area to grieve - Allow family time alone with patient before & after death - if so desired - Assist with contacting mortician - May attend funeral services
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21. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Deception
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Sanguineous wound drainage
22. 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
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Factors that affect a patients health state
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
23. 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
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Stress Incontinence
Factors affecting a vegan diet
24. Altered self - image
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Psychological loss
25. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Purulent wound drainage
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Enuresis
26. 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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27. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Nursing role with grief and death
Ethical dilemma
Perceived loss
Advocacy
28. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Serous wound drainage
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
29. HDL - 'good' type
Advance Directives
Cognitive learning
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Smoking destroys What type of fat
30. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Urge Incontinence
31. 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
Comfort Measures Only
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Nursing Ethics
32. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
What antiseptic does
Signs of patient nearing death
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Advocacy
33. 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
What antiseptic does
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Hospice Care
Factors affecting grief and dying
34. 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 to
Autonomy
Portal of Exit
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
35. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Altruism
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Incontinence
36. Give each his/her due & act fairly
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Urge Incontinence
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Justice
37. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
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38. 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
Enuresis
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
39. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
What elevates HDL
Susceptibility
Incubation period
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
40. 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
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Characteristics of a colostomy
Human dignity
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
41. 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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42. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Beneficence
Portal of Exit
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
solube fiber
43. Body part or function
Autonomy
Physical loss
Factors affecting a vegan diet
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
44. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Stress Incontinence
Components of a clear liquid diet
Diagnostic surgery
45. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
Pallative Care
Serous wound drainage
Surgicale Classification - elective
urinary retention
46. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Signs of patient nearing death
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Incontinence
47. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Situational loss
Convalescent period
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
DNR and the nurse's duty
48. 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
Human dignity
Physical loss
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
How one provides continuity of care
49. 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
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Test used for determng blood in stool
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
50. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Cognitive teaching strategy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation