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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Paternalism
Factors affecting a vegan diet
solube fiber
Social Justice
2. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Diagnostic surgery
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Community Factors Affecting Health
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
3. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Psychomotor learning
Reconstructive surgery
4. Benefit the patient.
Beneficence
Slow Code
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
ostomy
5. A tool nurses use to think critically - solve problems - & evaluate the way they care for patients. Dynamic - systematic or ever changing - depending on patient & all variables that impact patient - Helps nurse think about outcomes for patients & is
What is adpie & why do we use it
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Ethical dilemma
6. 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
Affective teaching strategy
cleasing enema
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Situational loss
7. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Overflow Incontinence
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
8. 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
Altruism
DNR and the nurse's duty
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
9. Difficulty or painful urination
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Stress Incontinence
Slow Code
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
10. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Susceptible Host
11. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
Full stage of illness
Ethical distress
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Affective learning
12. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Anticipatory loss
Virus
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
13. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
14. In the case of cardiopulmonary or respiratory arrest - calling a code & resuscitating the patient are to be delayed until these measures will be ineffectual.
Reservoir
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Slow Code
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
15. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Abdominal physical assessment
Functional Incontinence
Comfort Measures Only
Challenges to health care access
16. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Postmortem Care
Challenges to health care access
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
17. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Situational loss
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ethical dilemma
18. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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19. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Deception
Ethical distress
Living Wills
Psychomotor learning
20. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Comfort Measures Only
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Post - operative complications Coughing
21. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Post - operative complications Coughing
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Factors affecting grief and dying
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
22. Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen): obtain correct container & preservative or ice if needed - Instruct patient/family about collection - Begin with empty bladder - end with empty bladder - Have patient void before beginning - Have patien
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Factors affecting UTI's
Signs of patient nearing death
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
23. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Components of a clear liquid diet
Beneficence
Susceptibility
Convalescent period
24. 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
Reconstructive surgery
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
25. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
solube fiber
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Living Wills
26. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Post - operative complications Coughing
Bacteria
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Human Dimensions of Health
27. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
What antiseptic does
Reconstructive surgery
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Altruism
28. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Test used for determng blood in stool
29. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Fecal Occult Blood Test
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Psychological loss
Situational loss
30. 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
Palliative surgery
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Factors affecting grief and dying
Stoma Care Cleansing
31. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
Ablative surgery
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Human Dimensions of Health
32. - 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
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33. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Portal of Entry
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Cognitive teaching strategy
34. identify factors that may place the patient at greater risk for complications during & after surgery - often conducted several days before surgery as part of pre - operative laboratory screening & teaching
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Terminal Illness
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
35. 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
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Fidelity
Sanguineous wound drainage
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
36. Procedure that is preplanned & based on the patient's choice & availability of scheduling for the patient - surgeon - & facility; Non - urgent; does not have to be done immediately
Altruism
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Surgicale Classification - elective
37. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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38. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Actual loss
What elevates HDL
Combination Directive
Anticipatory loss
39. - Skin care - clean & dry - Oral & nasal care q 2 hr - Turn & reposition q 2 hr - Pain control - Maintain nutrition & hydration - Patent airway - Vision may diminish - control lighting in the room
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Stoma Care Assessments
40. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Overflow Incontinence
41. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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42. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Bacteria
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
43. Cholesterol: Heredity is biggest factor in how body produces - handles - & excretes cholesterol - Type & amount of fat in diet - Saturated fats: carry cholesterol and stimulate liver to make cholesterol - Higher fat diets can elevate cholesterol blo
How one provides continuity of care
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
44. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Perceived loss
micturition - urination - or voiding
45. 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
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Test used for determng blood in stool
Advance Directives
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
46. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Enuresis
Community Factors Affecting Health
Terminal Illness
47. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Altruism
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
48. Inability to delay need to urinate
Challenges to health care access
Fidelity
Urge Incontinence
Beneficence
49. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Diagnostic surgery
Definition of acute illness
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
50. 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
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Ileostomy -
Hospice Care