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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Ileostomy -
Factors affecting UTI's
Actual loss

2. Code of ethics; accountability
Social Justice
Combination Directive
Integrity
Situational loss

3. Process of emptying the bladder
micturition - urination - or voiding
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Enuresis
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history

4. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Affective learning
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient

5. 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
Fidelity
Terminal Illness
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern

6. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Bacteria
ostomy
Components of a clear liquid diet
Definition of acute illness

7. Regular exercise
Cognitive teaching strategy
What elevates HDL
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient

8. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
TPN
Functional Incontinence
Fidelity
Test used for determng blood in stool

9. Give each his/her due & act fairly
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Nursing role with grief and death
Serous wound drainage
Justice

10. collected during midstream - first small amount of urine voided helps to flush away any organisms near the meatus - urine voided at midstream is most characteristic of urine body is producing - patient voids & discards a small amount of urine; contin
Cognitive teaching strategy
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Psychological loss

11. Inability to empty bladder
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Overflow Incontinence
Factors affecting a vegan diet

12. In the case of cardiopulmonary or respiratory arrest - calling a code & resuscitating the patient are to be delayed until these measures will be ineffectual.
Slow Code
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Dying patient's Bill of Rights

13. Complete lack of control over urination
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Symptoms of UTI
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Total (reflex) Incontinence

14. 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
Symptoms of UTI
Postmortem Care
Perceived loss
Portal of Entry

15. Inspect
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Functional Incontinence
Affective learning
Abdominal physical assessment

16. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Postmortem Care
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Symptoms of UTI

17. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Fungi
Human Dimensions of Health
Reconstructive surgery
Cognitive learning

18. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Stoma Care Cleansing
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Stress Incontinence

19. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
Full stage of illness
Causes of food poisoning
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

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

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21. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Living Wills
What elevates HDL
Challenges to health care access
Post - operative complications Turning in bed

22. 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
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Reconstructive surgery
Ways to help a patient manage pain
What is length of stay & How do we control it?

23. 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
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Maturational loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern

24. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Perceived loss
Nurses role with 'informed consent'

25. Liquids can have color but must be able to see through (Coffee is ok) - No milk products - Nutritionally inadequate over time - Used as preparation for surgery - diagnostic studies - post - operative advancement - Hydrates - rests GI tract - N
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Components of a clear liquid diet
Nursing role with grief and death
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern

26. 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
What antiseptic does
Retention - Altered urine pattern
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Post - operative complications Often painful

27. Equal care & rights for all
'informed consent'
Social Justice
Community Factors Affecting Health
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.

28. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state

29. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Altruism
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Incubation period
Urge Incontinence

30. Personal emotional involvement - Need to explore own beliefs about death - Burn - out from work in areas of frequent death - Critical Care - ER - Hospice - Long Term Care
Factors affecting grief and dying
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Nursing role with grief and death

31. 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
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Ethical dilemma

32. provided for people with limited life expectancy - often in the home - focuses on the needs of the dying - comfort & dignity; encompasses biomedical - psychosocial - & spiritual aspects
Psychological loss
Hospice Care
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
urinary retention

33. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Post - operative complications Coughing

34. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Purulent wound drainage
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Terminal Illness
Stoma Care Assessments

35. 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
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Abdominal physical assessment

36. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Autonomy
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry

37. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Symptoms of UTI
Bacteria
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Incontinence

38. HDL - 'good' type
Portal of Entry
'informed consent'
cleasing enema
Smoking destroys What type of fat

39. Specific signs & symptom
Advance Directives
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Full stage of illness
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

40. 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
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Psychomotor teaching strategy
pre - operative assessments & screenings
chronic illness

41. Act for patient without their consent; Overrides patient autonomy; Nurse decides What is in best interest of patient
Enuresis
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Paternalism
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes

42. Difficulty or painful urination
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Care Assessments
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Paternalism

43. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes

44. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Social Justice

45. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Ablative surgery

46. 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
Convalescent period
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.

47. Should be cut 1/8 inch larger than stoma to protect skin & avoid stoma rub - may use charcoal or other deodorizer in bag to control odor - Bismuth subgallate oral also controls odor
cleasing enema
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Nursing role with grief and death
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya

48. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance

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49. Loss that is yet to come
Reservoir
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Anticipatory loss
TPN

50. 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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