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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. 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.
TPN
Deception
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
2. Loss that is yet to come
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Psychological loss
Anticipatory loss
Integrity
3. - 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
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Post - operative complications Often painful
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
4. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Challenges to health care access
Causes of food poisoning
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What elevates HDL
5. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Diagnostic surgery
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Paternalism
6. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Combination Directive
Postmortem Care
Incontinence
Reservoir
7. 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
pre - operative assessments & screenings
What antiseptic does
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Slow Code
8. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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9. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
ostomy
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Purulent wound drainage
10. Process by which healthcare providers give appropriate - uninterrupted care & facilitate the patient's transition between different setting & levels of care - Teaching patient & family - self - care - medications - Involve patient & family in care p
How one provides continuity of care
Terminal Illness
Susceptible Host
Symptoms of UTI
11. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Perceived loss
12. Allow individual to state in advance What their choices would be should certain circumstances develop
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Postmortem Care
Advance Directives
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
13. 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
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Community Factors Affecting Health
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Terminal Illness
14. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Nonmaleficence
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Definition of acute illness
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
15. 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
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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
Sanguineous wound drainage
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Stoma Care Cleansing
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
17. 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
Stoma Care Cleansing
Full stage of illness
Post - operative complications Often painful
Functional Incontinence
18. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Post - operative complications Coughing
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Challenges to health care access
Signs of patient nearing death
19. 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
Factors affecting UTI's
Advocacy
Fidelity
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
20. In the case of cardiopulmonary or respiratory arrest - calling a code & resuscitating the patient are to be delayed until these measures will be ineffectual.
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Slow Code
Nursing role with grief and death
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
21. 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 -
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Anticipatory loss
22. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Palliative surgery
Ileostomy -
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Purulent wound drainage
23. 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
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
How one provides continuity of care
What antiseptic does
24. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Human dignity
ostomy
Characteristics of a colostomy
25. Complete lack of control over urination
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Integrity
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Total (reflex) Incontinence
26. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Community Factors Affecting Health
Overflow Incontinence
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
27. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Ethical dilemma
Test used for determng blood in stool
28. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Affective learning
Psychomotor learning
Nursing Ethics
29. Inspect
Factors affecting UTI's
Abdominal physical assessment
Actual loss
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
30. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Situational loss
What is adpie & why do we use it
Affective learning
31. 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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32. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Postmortem Care
Test used for determng blood in stool
Definition of acute illness
Stoma Care Cleansing
33. 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
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
TPN
34. Point of escape of the organism from the reservoir (Ex: Respiratory - GI - Genitourinary - break in skin)
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Portal of Entry
Integrity
Portal of Exit
35. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Beneficence
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Challenges to health care access
Ethical dilemma
36. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Factors affecting UTI's
Ethical dilemma
37. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Stress Incontinence
What disinfectant does
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
38. Containing or mixed with blood
Challenges to health care access
Affective learning
Sanguineous wound drainage
Ethical dilemma
39. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Bacteria
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
40. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Living Wills
Human Dimensions of Health
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Palliative surgery
41. Result of natural development
Nursing Ethics
Integrity
Maturational loss
Reservoir
42. 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
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
What disinfectant does
Surgicale Classification - elective
cleasing enema
43. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
TPN
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Psychomotor teaching strategy
44. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
ostomy
Susceptibility
Convalescent period
solube fiber
45. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Altruism
Ethical distress
Sanguineous wound drainage
Nonmaleficence
46. Only in animal products
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
47. Inability to swallow - Pitting edema - Decreased GI & GU activity - Incontinence - Loss of motion - sensation - reflexes - Elevated temp but cold - clammy skin - Cyanosis - Lowered BP - Noisy - irregular respirations - Cheyne - Stokes - May
Nursing Ethics
Integrity
Signs of patient nearing death
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
48. Bladder - nervous system damage
Affective teaching strategy
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
49. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Deception
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Sanguineous wound drainage
50. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Virus
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Autonomy