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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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1. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Slow Code
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Post - operative complications Coughing
2. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Enuresis
Slow Code
Definition of acute illness
3. 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
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Symptoms of UTI
Overflow Incontinence
4. Only in animal products
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Palliative surgery
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
5. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Virus
6. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Fungi
Diagnostic surgery
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
7. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Incubation period
Ethical distress
8. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Purulent wound drainage
Components of a clear liquid diet
Reconstructive surgery
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
9. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Perceived loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
10. Benefit the patient.
Beneficence
Psychomotor learning
Serous wound drainage
Test used for determng blood in stool
11. Equal care & rights for all
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Social Justice
Abdominal physical assessment
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
12. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
Factors affecting UTI's
urinary retention
Factors that affect a patients health state
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
13. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Sanguineous wound drainage
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Susceptibility
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
14. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
Living Wills
Stoma Care Assessments
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
15. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Factors affecting grief and dying
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
16. 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 patients health state
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Surgical Classification - emergent
17. Anatomical position - Removal of soiled dressings & tubes - Who will bathe the body? - Identification tags - Personal items - Order to release body / mortuary notification - Special handling for communicable disease
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Ethical distress
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Postmortem Care
18. Difficulty or painful urination
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Surgical Classification - emergent
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Purulent wound drainage
19. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
What is adpie & why do we use it
Advance Directives
Community Factors Affecting Health
Human dignity
20. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Serous wound drainage
Beneficence
ostomy
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
21. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Actual loss
Diagnostic surgery
22. 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 UTI's
Portal of Exit
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
23. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Factors affecting grief and dying
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
24. 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
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Terminal Illness
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
25. Keep promises
Stress Incontinence
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Fidelity
Slow Code
26. Most common nosocomial infection (esp. in elderly) - may cause systemic infections in elderly - more common in females - urethra is shorter; urinary meatus is closer to anus - E. coli - cause of most UTI's - Risk Factors - Sexually active female - ca
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27. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Slow Code
Palliative surgery
Advance Directives
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
28. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Nonmaleficence
Human Dimensions of Health
Purulent wound drainage
29. Specific signs & symptom
Justice
Full stage of illness
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Integrity
30. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
solube fiber
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Autonomy
31. ability to excrete excess nitrogen
Incubation period
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
micturition - urination - or voiding
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
32. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Living Wills
Human Dimensions of Health
Portal of Entry
Advocacy
33. 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
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Pallative Care
Portal of Entry
Nursing role with grief and death
34. 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
Portal of Exit
Pre - operative assessment includes
Psychological loss
Slow Code
35. 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
Social Justice
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Living Wills
Autonomy
36. 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
Ileostomy -
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Ethical distress
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
37. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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38. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Comfort Measures Only
Living Wills
Surgical Classification - emergent
Diagnostic surgery
39. 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
How one provides continuity of care
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Functional Incontinence
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
40. Collect from specimen port on drainage tubing - Cleanse with alcohol & use sterile syringe to pull out urine - Collect urine only from upper tubing - never from drainage bag - Urinalysis - collect 30 mL; Culture & Sensitivity (C&S) - collect 10 mL -
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Stress Incontinence
Postmortem Care
41. Legal document that protects patient - physician - & healthcare institution - Person who is performing procedure (physician) is responsible for securing consent & explaining procedure to patient - Nurse signs as a witness - signifying that patient si
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42. Complete lack of control over urination
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Factors affecting UTI's
Maturational loss
43. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Psychomotor learning
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Stoma Care Cleansing
Ethical dilemma
44. 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
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Advance Directives
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Surgical asepsis
45. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
Factors affecting grief and dying
Serous wound drainage
What is adpie & why do we use it
46. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
47. 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
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Human Dimensions of Health
Pallative Care
Advocacy
48. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What elevates HDL
Urge Incontinence
49. 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
Overflow Incontinence
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
50. provided for people with limited life expectancy - often in the home - focuses on the needs of the dying - comfort & dignity; encompasses biomedical - psychosocial - & spiritual aspects
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Enuresis
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Hospice Care