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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
'informed consent'
Definition of acute illness
Reservoir
2. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Fungi
Palliative surgery
Living Wills
Serous wound drainage
3. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Factors affecting UTI's
Perceived loss
What antiseptic does
4. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Test used for determng blood in stool
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Psychological loss
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
5. 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
TPN
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Pallative Care
6. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Factors affecting UTI's
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Nonmaleficence
7. 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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8. Most common nosocomial infection (esp. in elderly) - may cause systemic infections in elderly - more common in females - urethra is shorter; urinary meatus is closer to anus - E. coli - cause of most UTI's - Risk Factors - Sexually active female - ca
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9. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Hospice Care
10. - 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
Slow Code
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Living Wills
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
11. 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
Symptoms of UTI
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
12. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
Incubation period
Paternalism
urinary retention
Affective learning
13. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Human dignity
Psychomotor learning
14. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Affective teaching strategy
Incubation period
Challenges to health care access
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
15. Do - not - resuscitate - an order specifying that there be no attempt to resuscitate a patient in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest - Nurse is obligated to attempt CPR if there is no DNR order - Nurse should clarify the patient's code status: if th
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16. Inability to empty bladder
Factors affecting UTI's
Retention - Altered urine pattern
cleasing enema
Fidelity
17. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Human Dimensions of Health
Causes of food poisoning
Post - operative complications Coughing
18. 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
Signs of patient nearing death
What is adpie & why do we use it
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Surgical Classification - emergent
19. 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
urinary retention
How to stimulate a patients appetite
What disinfectant does
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
20. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations
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21. 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
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Perceived loss
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
22. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Living Wills
Fidelity
Fecal Occult Blood Test
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
23. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
DNR and the nurse's duty
Virus
Post - operative complications Often painful
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
24. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Characteristics of a colostomy
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Cognitive teaching strategy
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
25. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Maturational loss
Stoma Care Assessments
Stress Incontinence
26. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
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27. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Community Factors Affecting Health
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Combination Directive
Full stage of illness
28. 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
Paternalism
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
How one provides continuity of care
29. Brings large intestine to surface Can be created anywhere along large intestine - Consistency of stool depends on how far stool travels through colon before diversion - May be able to train bowel to evacuate at same time each day - if solid stool
Characteristics of a colostomy
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Post - operative complications Coughing
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
30. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
chronic illness
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Surgicale Classification - elective
Pallative Care
31. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Human dignity
Altruism
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
32. 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
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Human Dimensions of Health
Psychomotor learning
micturition - urination - or voiding
33. Backrubs- Warm / cold compresses - Auditory / visual stimuli - TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) - Acupuncture - Placebos - Analgesics - Endorphins - natural analgesic activated by stress & pain - Medications - IV - PO - PCA - Epidu
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Pallative Care
Diagnostic surgery
Ways to help a patient manage pain
34. 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
Autonomy
Living Wills
Overflow Incontinence
35. Body part or function
Physical loss
Test used for determng blood in stool
Characteristics of a colostomy
splinting and its use in the health care setting
36. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Nursing role with grief and death
Enuresis
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
37. Keep promises
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Human dignity
Fidelity
38. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Incubation period
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Susceptible Host
Definition of acute illness
39. Regular exercise
Surgical Classification - emergent
What elevates HDL
Fidelity
Causes of food poisoning
40. I & O - monitor for fluid volume deficit or overload - Bladder distention - assess by palpating above pubic symphysis if patient has not voided within 8 hrs after surgery or if patient has been voiding frequently in amounts less than 50 mL
Advance Directives
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Full stage of illness
Psychomotor learning
41. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
chronic illness
Reconstructive surgery
Physical loss
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
42. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Nursing role with grief and death
DNR and the nurse's duty
Physical loss
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
43. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Portal of Entry
Actual loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Autonomy
44. Plantlike organisms - molds (Ex: Athlete's foot - Ringworm)
Living Wills
Combination Directive
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Fungi
45. Should be moist & red or pink if circulation is adequate - Pale or bluish indicates problem - bleeds easily (mucosa) but amount is minimal - Very edematous at first - but will shrink down to normal size as healing occurs (6-8 weeks) - Protrude above
Stoma Care Assessments
What elevates HDL
Psychological loss
Susceptible Host
46. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Purulent wound drainage
chronic illness
47. 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
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Nursing role with grief and death
Integrity
Ileostomy -
48. - 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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49. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What disinfectant does
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
50. 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
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Psychological loss