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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Functional Incontinence
Virus
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
2. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Slow Code
3. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Psychomotor learning
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
4. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Surgicale Classification - elective
Diagnostic surgery
Virus
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
5. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Symptoms of UTI
Post - operative complications Often painful
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
6. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
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.
7. Bowel sounds - auscultate every 4 hrs when patient is awake - reduced or absent; should return within 8-24 hrs after surgery - Distention - assess; esp. if bowel sounds are absent or high - pitched (could indicate paralytic ileus) - Is there an infe
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Slow Code
Nursing Ethics
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
8. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Stoma Care Cleansing
Factors affecting grief and dying
Affective teaching strategy
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
9. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Altruism
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
10. - 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
11. Must be done immediately to preserve life - a body part - or function
Psychomotor learning
Surgical Classification - emergent
Challenges to health care access
Fidelity
12. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
13. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
14. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ileostomy -
Advocacy
Psychomotor learning
15. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Enuresis
What antiseptic does
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Stress Incontinence
16. 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
Affective teaching strategy
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Advance Directives
Maturational loss
17. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
18. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Reservoir
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Ethical dilemma
19. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Ethical distress
Surgicale Classification - elective
Incubation period
Definition of acute illness
20. Two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag without disturbing seal on skin - bag is changed only when it leaks or seal is lost - opening in karaya should be cut 1/8
Post - operative complications Often painful
Nonmaleficence
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Serous wound drainage
21. Bladder - nervous system damage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Serosanguineous wound drainage
22. 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
TPN
Affective teaching strategy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
pre - operative assessments & screenings
23. 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
Serous wound drainage
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Situational loss
What is adpie & why do we use it
24. 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
Fungi
Paternalism
splinting and its use in the health care setting
25. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Maturational loss
Reservoir
Combination Directive
26. Difficulty or painful urination
Deception
Bacteria
Purulent wound drainage
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
27. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
chronic illness
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Nonmaleficence
Pallative Care
28. 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
29. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Characteristics of a colostomy
Surgicale Classification - elective
Affective teaching strategy
30. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Incubation period
Deception
What antiseptic does
Advocacy
31. 1. Denial & Isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance
32. 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
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
TPN
Purulent wound drainage
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
33. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
34. North American Nursing Diagnosis Association is a way to define what nurses can diagnose in the nursing realm & a way to find interventions & outcomes. Nursing Diagnosis must be a NAndA approved diagnosis - NIC - Nursing Interventions Classification
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Fidelity
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
35. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Portal of Entry
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Pallative Care
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
36. Maintain patient confidentiality within legal & regulatory parameters - Act as patient advocates - Deliver care in nonjudgmental manner & are sensitive to diversity - Deliver care that protects patient autonomy - dignity - & rights - Seek available
Human dignity
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
37. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations
38. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Surgical classifications: Urgent
What disinfectant does
Diagnostic surgery
Signs of patient nearing death
39. Provide information on What is happening - Provide private area to grieve - Allow family time alone with patient before & after death - if so desired - Assist with contacting mortician - May attend funeral services
40. 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
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Nursing role with grief and death
41. Regular exercise
pre - operative assessments & screenings
What elevates HDL
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
42. Result of natural development
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Psychomotor learning
Maturational loss
Psychomotor teaching strategy
43. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Surgicale Classification - elective
Susceptibility
Palliative surgery
44. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
ostomy
Cognitive learning
Terminal Illness
Deception
45. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Perceived loss
Cognitive teaching strategy
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
46. 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
Factors affecting grief and dying
Surgicale Classification - elective
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
47. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptible Host
Ethical dilemma
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
48. Stool production will usually not begin for a few days after surgery - surgery inhibits peristalsis - patient has been NPO - enemas to cleanse prior - Mucus may be passed from stoma prior to production of stool - Colostomy may require irrigation
Incontinence
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
49. 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
Psychomotor teaching strategy
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
50. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Overflow Incontinence
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient