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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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health-sciences
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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. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Psychomotor learning
Abdominal physical assessment
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
2. 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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3. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Social Justice
DNR and the nurse's duty
solube fiber
Definition of acute illness
4. 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 affecting a vegan diet
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors that affect a patients health state
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
5. 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
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
micturition - urination - or voiding
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
6. Keep promises
Ethical distress
Fidelity
Human Dimensions of Health
Stress Incontinence
7. 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
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Affective learning
Challenges to health care access
8. 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.
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
What antiseptic does
9. 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
Pallative Care
Living Wills
Deception
10. 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
Altruism
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Advocacy
cleasing enema
11. 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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12. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Fungi
Portal of Exit
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
13. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Incubation period
14. Body part or function
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Surgical Classification - emergent
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Physical loss
15. Death expected within a limited period of time - What patient needs to know - how disease will progress; go through stages of grief; support in decision making; right to consent to or refuse any & all treatment - What family needs to know - how disea
Terminal Illness
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Incubation period
16. 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
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17. Loss that is yet to come
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
urinary retention
Anticipatory loss
Cognitive teaching strategy
18. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Bacteria
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
solube fiber
19. 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
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Actual loss
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Post - operative complications Coughing
20. HDL - 'good' type
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Enuresis
21. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
Incontinence
Justice
Palliative surgery
22. 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
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Ileostomy -
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
23. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
How one provides continuity of care
ostomy
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
24. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Signs of patient nearing death
Fungi
Post - operative complications Coughing
25. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Enuresis
Smoking destroys What type of fat
26. 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
Smoking destroys What type of fat
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
'informed consent'
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
27. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Fidelity
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Abdominal physical assessment
28. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Causes of food poisoning
Full stage of illness
Social Justice
29. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Abdominal physical assessment
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Cognitive learning
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
30. 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
Palliative surgery
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Surgicale Classification - elective
31. 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
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Stoma Care Assessments
Components of a clear liquid diet
32. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Susceptible Host
What is adpie & why do we use it
Abdominal physical assessment
urinary retention
33. 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
Living Wills
What is adpie & why do we use it
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Autonomy
34. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Serous wound drainage
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Causes of food poisoning
35. 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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36. To remove a diseased body part (Ex: appendectomy - amputation)
Psychological loss
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Ablative surgery
37. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Purulent wound drainage
Reconstructive surgery
Total (reflex) Incontinence
38. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Stoma Care Cleansing
Physical loss
Convalescent period
Affective learning
39. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Diagnostic surgery
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
40. 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
Psychomotor learning
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Urge Incontinence
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
41. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Affective teaching strategy
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
42. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Reconstructive surgery
ostomy
Challenges to health care access
DNR and the nurse's duty
43. - Skin care - clean & dry - Oral & nasal care q 2 hr - Turn & reposition q 2 hr - Pain control - Maintain nutrition & hydration - Patent airway - Vision may diminish - control lighting in the room
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Factors affecting a vegan diet
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
44. Procedure that is preplanned & based on the patient's choice & availability of scheduling for the patient - surgeon - & facility; Non - urgent; does not have to be done immediately
Surgical Classification - emergent
Surgicale Classification - elective
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Palliative surgery
45. 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
Stoma Care Assessments
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Cognitive learning
Characteristics of a colostomy
46. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Bacteria
Susceptible Host
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
47. 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
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Post - operative complications Often painful
TPN
Living Wills
48. - Peel fruits & vegetables - Eat dry foods & foods that are piping hot & cooked thoroughly - avoid tap water - ice cubes - fruit juice - fresh salads - unpasteurized dairy products - cold sauces & toppings - open buffets - & undercooked or reheate
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49. 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
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
How one provides continuity of care
Slow Code
Full stage of illness
50. 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
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
urinary retention
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history