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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. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Human dignity
Functional Incontinence
Surgical Classification - emergent
Factors affecting a vegan diet
2. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Psychological loss
Stress Incontinence
3. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Surgicale Classification - elective
Ethical dilemma
Factors that affect a patients health state
4. 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
Slow Code
Causes of food poisoning
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
5. 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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6. Specific signs & symptom
Surgical asepsis
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Pallative Care
Full stage of illness
7. 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
Pre - operative assessment includes
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
8. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Purulent wound drainage
Functional Incontinence
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Psychomotor learning
9. 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
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Postmortem Care
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
10. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
Portal of Entry
Autonomy
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
11. Body part or function
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Affective learning
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Physical loss
12. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Overflow Incontinence
Fecal Occult Blood Test
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
13. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Community Factors Affecting Health
Virus
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
'informed consent'
14. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Post - operative complications Coughing
Stoma Care Cleansing
Portal of Entry
Incubation period
15. 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
Virus
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
16. 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
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Pallative Care
17. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Anticipatory loss
Symptoms of UTI
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Diagnostic surgery
18. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Surgical asepsis
Paternalism
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
19. Result of natural development
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Maturational loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
20. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Purulent wound drainage
solube fiber
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
21. 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.
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Fidelity
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
22. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
Sanguineous wound drainage
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Palliative surgery
Bacteria
23. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Causes of food poisoning
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Beneficence
Comfort Measures Only
24. 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
Advocacy
Post - operative complications Often painful
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Psychological loss
25. 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
Ways to prevent food poisoning
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
'informed consent'
26. ability to excrete excess nitrogen
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
cleasing enema
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
27. 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
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Situational loss
Deception
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
28. 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
Causes of food poisoning
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Factors affecting grief and dying
Challenges to health care access
29. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
ostomy
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
30. Backrubs- Warm / cold compresses - Auditory / visual stimuli - TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) - Acupuncture - Placebos - Analgesics - Endorphins - natural analgesic activated by stress & pain - Medications - IV - PO - PCA - Epidu
Surgical Classification - emergent
Comfort Measures Only
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Factors affecting UTI's
31. 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
Surgical Classification - emergent
Human Dimensions of Health
Community Factors Affecting Health
TPN
32. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Incubation period
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Cognitive teaching strategy
33. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Challenges to health care access
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Bacteria
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
34. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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35. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Stoma Care Assessments
Ethical dilemma
solube fiber
Ethical distress
36. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Pre - operative assessment includes
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Symptoms of UTI
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
37. HDL - 'good' type
Ethical dilemma
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Fungi
Smoking destroys What type of fat
38. 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
Actual loss
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
cleasing enema
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
39. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
solube fiber
Community Factors Affecting Health
Terminal Illness
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
40. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Portal of Exit
41. 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
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Virus
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Post - operative complications Often painful
42. 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
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
solube fiber
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
43. Brings large intestine to surface Can be created anywhere along large intestine - Consistency of stool depends on how far stool travels through colon before diversion - May be able to train bowel to evacuate at same time each day - if solid stool
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Characteristics of a colostomy
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
44. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Ethical distress
Reconstructive surgery
45. Only in animal products
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Terminal Illness
46. 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
Virus
ostomy
solube fiber
Susceptible Host
47. Inability to delay need to urinate
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Living Wills
Urge Incontinence
48. 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
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
What is adpie & why do we use it
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Total (reflex) Incontinence
49. Bladder - nervous system damage
Deception
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Urge Incontinence
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
50. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Stoma Care Cleansing
Combination Directive
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'