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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
What is adpie & why do we use it
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Fecal Occult Blood Test

2. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
Anticipatory loss
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Affective teaching strategy
Pallative Care

3. 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
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Integrity
Justice
Urge Incontinence

4. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Components of a clear liquid diet
Functional Incontinence

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

6. - 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

7. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Combination Directive
Ethical dilemma
Actual loss
Serous wound drainage

8. ability to excrete excess nitrogen
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Serous wound drainage
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

9. 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
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Ileostomy -

10. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Susceptibility
How one provides continuity of care
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
splinting and its use in the health care setting

11. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.

12. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

13. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Social Justice
Reservoir
Reconstructive surgery

14. Deep breathing (TCDB - Turn - Cough - Deep Breathing) - During surgery - cough reflex is suppresses - mucus accumulates - & lungs do not ventilate fully. After surgery - respirations are less effective due to anesthesia - pain meds - & pain - hyperv
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
ostomy

15. Statement of ethical obligations & duties of every person who enters practice of nursing; Non - negotiable ethical standard; Expression of nursing's own understanding of commitment to society
Nursing Ethics
Serous wound drainage
Comfort Measures Only
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)

16. 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
Justice
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)

17. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Nursing role with grief and death
Comfort Measures Only
What disinfectant does
Human Dimensions of Health

18. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Susceptible Host
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Definition of acute illness

19. 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
Reconstructive surgery
Community Factors Affecting Health
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Pre - operative assessment includes

20. 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
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Reservoir
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security

21. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty

22. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
ostomy
Justice
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)

23. 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
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Symptoms of UTI
Human Dimensions of Health
Surgicale Classification - elective

24. Inability to delay need to urinate
Deception
Advocacy
Urge Incontinence
micturition - urination - or voiding

25. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Stoma Care Cleansing
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Reservoir

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

27. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Affective teaching strategy
Functional Incontinence
Terminal weaning from ventilator

28. Containing or mixed with blood
Sanguineous wound drainage
What elevates HDL
Enuresis
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern

29. Kills organisms but not spores & is bacteriocidal - Betadine - alcohol - chlorine - Depends On what organisms & How many are present - Type of item being disinfected - Time & strength of disinfecting agent is critical
What disinfectant does
TPN
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Causes of food poisoning

30. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Full stage of illness
Perceived loss
What antiseptic does
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.

31. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Hospice Care
Serous wound drainage
Deception
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern

32. 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
Advocacy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Terminal Illness

33. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Test used for determng blood in stool
Actual loss
Bacteria
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.

34. Oxygen; skin color - V/S - mental responsiveness; Intake & elimination of fluids;I & O - skin turgor - weight - mucous membranes; Food;weight - muscle mass - labs; Temperature;Physical activity;Rest & sleep

35. Plantlike organisms - molds (Ex: Athlete's foot - Ringworm)
Fungi
Reservoir
Situational loss
Dying patient's Bill of Rights

36. HDL - 'good' type
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Test used for determng blood in stool
Symptoms of UTI
Causes of food poisoning

37. 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
Enuresis
Sanguineous wound drainage
DNR and the nurse's duty
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient

38. 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

39. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Characteristics of a colostomy
chronic illness
Terminal Illness
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery

40. 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
Social Justice
Enuresis
Ileostomy -
How one provides continuity of care

41. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Pre - operative assessment includes
Anticipatory loss
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

42. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Human Dimensions of Health
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Ethical distress

43. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Nursing role with grief and death
Stoma Care Assessments

44. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
What disinfectant does
ostomy
Perceived loss

45. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Test used for determng blood in stool
Nursing Ethics
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss

46. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Stoma Care Assessments
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Surgical asepsis
Post - operative complications Coughing

47. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
What antiseptic does
Nursing Ethics
urinary retention
Nurses role with 'informed consent'

48. Code of ethics; accountability
Integrity
Post - operative complications Often painful
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient

49. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Causes of food poisoning
Situational loss
Incubation period

50. Inability to empty bladder
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Postmortem Care
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