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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Ethical distress
Integrity
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Serosanguineous wound drainage

2. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Psychomotor teaching strategy

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

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4. Difficulty or painful urination
How one provides continuity of care
Abdominal physical assessment
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state

5. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Fidelity

6. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
Surgical Classification - emergent
Urge Incontinence
Serous wound drainage
Total (reflex) Incontinence

7. To remove a diseased body part (Ex: appendectomy - amputation)
Actual loss
Nonmaleficence
Ileostomy -
Ablative surgery

8. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Cognitive learning
Beneficence

9. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Altruism
Situational loss
Deception
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

10. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Full stage of illness
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Symptoms of UTI

11. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Virus
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Ablative surgery

12. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Psychomotor learning
Stoma Care Cleansing
cleasing enema
Stoma Care Assessments

13. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Cognitive learning
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient

14. 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
Autonomy
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Palliative surgery

15. 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
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Stoma Care Assessments
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern

16. 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
Post - operative complications Coughing
Reservoir
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Maturational loss

17. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Overflow Incontinence
What is adpie & why do we use it

18. 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
Cognitive teaching strategy
How one provides continuity of care
splinting and its use in the health care setting

19. 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
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Human Dimensions of Health
Test used for determng blood in stool
Beneficence

20. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Palliative surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Post - operative complications Coughing

21. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss

22. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Pre - operative assessment includes
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Serous wound drainage

23. Body part or function
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Physical loss

24. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
Altruism
Advance Directives
Anticipatory loss
Advocacy

25. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations

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26. Patients who require in - hospital care are more acutely ill or injured than in the past - Length of stay has decreased; Often leads to re - admissions - Nurses in hospitals must have knowledge & skills to perform complex care to very ill patients
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Terminal weaning from ventilator
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Actual loss

27. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Challenges to health care access
Surgical classifications: Urgent

28. Disposable one - piece bags may be used at first - will have karaya or stomahesive attached - After stoma is stable - two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag w
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Virus
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.

29. 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
Components of a clear liquid diet
How one provides continuity of care
Full stage of illness
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.

30. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Post - operative complications Coughing
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Serosanguineous wound drainage

31. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Reconstructive surgery
Nonmaleficence
Urgency - Altered urine pattern

32. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Advocacy
Abdominal physical assessment
Frequency - Altered urine pattern

33. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
urinary retention
Symptoms of UTI
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare

34. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Virus
Pre - operative assessment includes
Susceptibility

35. Give each his/her due & act fairly
Characteristics of a colostomy
Factors that affect a patients health state
Justice
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

36. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Maturational loss
Susceptible Host
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Psychological loss

37. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Affective learning
What disinfectant does
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Psychomotor learning

38. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Terminal Illness
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care

39. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Serous wound drainage
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.

40. 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
Overflow Incontinence
Social Justice
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
What is adpie & why do we use it

41. 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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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
What disinfectant does
Surgicale Classification - elective
Cognitive learning
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status

43. Regular exercise
Reservoir
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Nonmaleficence
What elevates HDL

44. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Fungi
Incontinence
Factors affecting grief and dying

45. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
Pre - operative assessment includes
Affective learning
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Beneficence

46. 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
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Fidelity
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Living Wills

47. 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
Actual loss
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Nonmaleficence

48. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Nonmaleficence
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Community Factors Affecting Health

49. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Perceived loss
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.

50. 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
Advocacy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare