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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Only in animal products
Situational loss
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
What disinfectant does
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
2. 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
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Altruism
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
3. Diet - should include adequate fiber or bulk - Whole grains - fruits - vegetables - legumes - Eating at regular intervals helps stimulate peristalsis (gastrocolic reflex) - Food allergies or food poisoning may lead to diarrhea - Some foods cause
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Perceived loss
Convalescent period
4. Keep promises
Components of a clear liquid diet
Fidelity
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
5. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Hospice Care
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
6. 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
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Susceptible Host
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
7. 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 that affect a patients health state
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
8. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Integrity
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Test used for determng blood in stool
Cognitive learning
9. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Surgicale Classification - elective
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Comfort Measures Only
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
10. 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
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
11. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Surgical asepsis
12. Inability to empty bladder
Pre - operative assessment includes
Retention - Altered urine pattern
ostomy
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
13. 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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14. Benefit the patient.
Beneficence
Definition of acute illness
Challenges to health care access
Virus
15. Developmental considerations - child has limited understanding but needs to grieve - Family - Who has died - Socioeconomics - financial burden or loss; Cause of Death - Culture - Gender - Religion
Factors affecting grief and dying
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
16. Containing or mixed with blood
Reconstructive surgery
Perceived loss
Sanguineous wound drainage
Ways to help a patient manage pain
17. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Stress Incontinence
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
18. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
Portal of Entry
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Affective learning
What antiseptic does
19. Frequency that occurs during sleeping hours
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
20. 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
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Characteristics of a colostomy
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
21. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Perceived loss
Situational loss
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
22. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Stoma Care Cleansing
ostomy
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Situational loss
23. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Maturational loss
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
24. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Reconstructive surgery
25. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Enuresis
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Ways to help a patient manage pain
26. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
27. Specific signs & symptom
Nonmaleficence
Physical loss
Fidelity
Full stage of illness
28. Hematest & guaiac test are chemical tests commonly used - False - positive results - from ingesting red meat - animal liver & kidneys - salmon - tuna - mackerel & sardines - tomatoes - cauliflower - horseradish - turnips - melon - bananas - & soybean
Test used for determng blood in stool
Pre - operative assessment includes
Characteristics of a colostomy
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
29. 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
TPN
Living Wills
Maturational loss
DNR and the nurse's duty
30. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Challenges to health care access
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
ostomy
Susceptibility
31. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Serosanguineous wound drainage
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
32. 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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33. 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
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Human Dimensions of Health
Susceptible Host
cleasing enema
34. 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
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Palliative surgery
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Situational loss
35. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Human Dimensions of Health
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
36. Plantlike organisms - molds (Ex: Athlete's foot - Ringworm)
Purulent wound drainage
Fungi
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
37. 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
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Definition of acute illness
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
38. 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 -
Surgicale Classification - elective
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
39. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Post - operative complications Coughing
40. Process of emptying the bladder
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Care Cleansing
Sanguineous wound drainage
micturition - urination - or voiding
41. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Perceived loss
Combination Directive
42. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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43. 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
Susceptibility
Sanguineous wound drainage
Postmortem Care
Paternalism
44. 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
chronic illness
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
45. 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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46. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Characteristics of a colostomy
Susceptibility
47. Point of escape of the organism from the reservoir (Ex: Respiratory - GI - Genitourinary - break in skin)
Portal of Entry
Portal of Exit
Fidelity
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
48. 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 to
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Surgical Classification - emergent
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
49. Result of natural development
Overflow Incontinence
Incubation period
Maturational loss
Purulent wound drainage
50. 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
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Situational loss
micturition - urination - or voiding