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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. Medicate for pain - N/V - Rest periods before each meal - Offer mouth care prior to each meal - Be sure dentures are clean & in mouth - Offer foods patient likes & can eat - Cold - soft foods may be better tolerated - Smaller portions - More frequent
Psychological loss
What disinfectant does
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Virus

2. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
Comfort Measures Only
Altruism
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

3. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
Ablative surgery
What is adpie & why do we use it
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Bacteria

4. 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
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Pre - operative assessment includes
Postmortem Care
Causes of food poisoning

5. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
urinary retention
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Factors affecting a vegan diet
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'

6. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Purulent wound drainage
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.

7. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
solube fiber
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptibility

8. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Combination Directive
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Fungi
Nursing Ethics

9. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Abdominal physical assessment
Ethical distress
Human Dimensions of Health
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes

10. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Surgical asepsis
Stress Incontinence
Autonomy
splinting and its use in the health care setting

11. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
micturition - urination - or voiding
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)

12. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Portal of Exit
What elevates HDL
How one provides continuity of care
Perceived loss

13. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Nursing Ethics
Bacteria
Nonmaleficence
Situational loss

14. Only in animal products
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Causes of food poisoning
Nursing Ethics
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

15. Inspect
What disinfectant does
Abdominal physical assessment
chronic illness
Total (reflex) Incontinence

16. 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
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Abdominal physical assessment
Advocacy
Slow Code

17. 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

18. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Abdominal physical assessment
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes

19. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups

20. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Affective learning
Virus
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Nursing role with grief and death

21. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Post - operative complications Coughing
Abdominal physical assessment
Serous wound drainage
splinting and its use in the health care setting

22. 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
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Surgical asepsis
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.

23. Act for patient without their consent; Overrides patient autonomy; Nurse decides What is in best interest of patient
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Advance Directives
Actual loss
Paternalism

24. 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
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Serous wound drainage

25. 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
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Purulent wound drainage
Pre - operative assessment includes
Cognitive teaching strategy

26. Keep promises
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Advance Directives
Affective teaching strategy
Fidelity

27. Equal care & rights for all
Affective learning
Social Justice
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient

28. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
Perceived loss
Integrity
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.

29. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
Symptoms of UTI
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
urinary retention
Advocacy

30. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Sanguineous wound drainage
TPN
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.

31. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Human dignity
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Enuresis
Autonomy

32. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Situational loss

33. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Nursing role with grief and death

34. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Affective teaching strategy
Cognitive learning
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Fungi

35. Altered self - image
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Living Wills
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Psychological loss

36. 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
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Post - operative complications Turning in bed

37. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
What disinfectant does
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Nonmaleficence
Nursing role with grief and death

38. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Incontinence
Cognitive teaching strategy
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Stoma Care Cleansing

39. 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
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Advance Directives
Slow Code

40. 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

41. 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
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Pre - operative assessment includes
Incontinence
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.

42. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Surgicale Classification - elective

43. Benefit the patient.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Beneficence
Incontinence
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

44. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance

45. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation

46. 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
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.

47. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Overflow Incontinence
Combination Directive
Incontinence
Sanguineous wound drainage

48. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Pre - operative assessment includes
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Ablative surgery

49. 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
Hospice Care
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern

50. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
What antiseptic does
Signs of patient nearing death
Ethical dilemma
Terminal Illness