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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
solube fiber
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Situational loss
2. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Fungi
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
3. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Portal of Entry
Convalescent period
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Pre - operative assessment includes
4. Keep promises
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Fidelity
Ethical distress
5. Loss of voluntary control of urination
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Incontinence
Incubation period
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
6. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Justice
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
7. 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
Human Dimensions of Health
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Serosanguineous wound drainage
8. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
urinary retention
Components of a clear liquid diet
TPN
Ethical dilemma
9. 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
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Social Justice
chronic illness
Post - operative complications Often painful
10. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Diagnostic surgery
Community Factors Affecting Health
Post - operative complications Coughing
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
11. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Surgicale Classification - elective
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Human dignity
Serosanguineous wound drainage
12. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Cognitive learning
Reconstructive surgery
Situational loss
13. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
Palliative surgery
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Causes of food poisoning
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
14. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Pallative Care
15. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Terminal Illness
What antiseptic does
16. 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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17. Complete lack of control over urination
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Sanguineous wound drainage
Advance Directives
Total (reflex) Incontinence
18. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
chronic illness
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Stress Incontinence
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
19. Can be harmful if taken in large amounts - All nutrients work with others to promote good health - Adding large amounts of one vitamin can make the body believe it is deficient in another vitamin - Food is the best source of nutrients - Supplements s
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Ethical dilemma
Portal of Exit
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
20. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Stoma Care Assessments
21. Only in animal products
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Fecal Occult Blood Test
22. Inability to empty bladder
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Stress Incontinence
Nonmaleficence
Enuresis
23. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Portal of Exit
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
24. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations
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25. 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
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Nursing role with grief and death
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Definition of acute illness
26. 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
Nonmaleficence
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
27. 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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28. Difficulty or painful urination
Abdominal physical assessment
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Deception
29. 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
Human Dimensions of Health
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
30. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
Hospice Care
What antiseptic does
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
31. 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
Components of a clear liquid diet
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
32. Physical - genetic inheritance - age - developmental level - race - & gender - Emotional - how the mind affects body function & responds to body conditions - Intellectual - cognitive abilities - educational background - & past experiences - Environme
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Human Dimensions of Health
Palliative surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
33. Should be cut 1/8 inch larger than stoma to protect skin & avoid stoma rub - may use charcoal or other deodorizer in bag to control odor - Bismuth subgallate oral also controls odor
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Factors that affect a patients health state
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
34. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Living Wills
Deception
Post - operative complications Often painful
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
35. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Comfort Measures Only
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Factors affecting UTI's
36. 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
Postmortem Care
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Cognitive learning
Fidelity
37. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Cognitive learning
What elevates HDL
Psychomotor learning
Comfort Measures Only
38. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Justice
Advocacy
Nonmaleficence
39. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
40. 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
Human Dimensions of Health
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
cleasing enema
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
41. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Susceptibility
Justice
Stress Incontinence
Ablative surgery
42. ability to excrete excess nitrogen
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
chronic illness
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
43. 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
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Autonomy
Characteristics of a colostomy
44. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Challenges to health care access
45. 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
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Virus
Symptoms of UTI
Stoma Care Assessments
46. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Symptoms of UTI
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Nonmaleficence
47. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Reservoir
Human dignity
48. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Perceived loss
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Ethical distress
49. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
DNR and the nurse's duty
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Ways to prevent food poisoning
50. Code of ethics; accountability
Integrity
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
splinting and its use in the health care setting