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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
TPN
Autonomy
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
DNR and the nurse's duty
2. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Definition of acute illness
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
3. 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
Psychological loss
Nursing role with grief and death
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
4. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
Factors that affect a patients health state
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Comfort Measures Only
Pallative Care
5. Oxygen; skin color - V/S - mental responsiveness; Intake & elimination of fluids;I & O - skin turgor - weight - mucous membranes; Food;weight - muscle mass - labs; Temperature;Physical activity;Rest & sleep
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6. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Deception
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Advance Directives
7. Medicate for pain - N/V - Rest periods before each meal - Offer mouth care prior to each meal - Be sure dentures are clean & in mouth - Offer foods patient likes & can eat - Cold - soft foods may be better tolerated - Smaller portions - More frequent
Portal of Entry
Nonmaleficence
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
8. 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
Post - operative complications Often painful
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Human Dimensions of Health
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
9. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
micturition - urination - or voiding
Susceptible Host
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Advance Directives
10. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Symptoms of UTI
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Autonomy
11. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Pre - operative assessment includes
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Surgical asepsis
12. Difficulty or painful urination
Overflow Incontinence
Factors affecting a vegan diet
What is adpie & why do we use it
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
13. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Pre - operative assessment includes
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Incubation period
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
14. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Living Wills
Post - operative complications Often painful
Post - operative complications Coughing
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
15. Regular exercise
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Community Factors Affecting Health
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
What elevates HDL
16. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
Altruism
Surgical Classification - emergent
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
17. 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
Overflow Incontinence
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
18. 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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19. Bladder - nervous system damage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Surgical Classification - emergent
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
20. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Surgical Classification - emergent
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Fungi
Reservoir
21. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
22. Health history & physical assessment within 24 hrs of surgery to identify risk factors & allergies - Identifying medications & treatments patient is currently receiving - surgery cancels all prior medication orders (Ex: no cumadin - Plavix - aspirin
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Pre - operative assessment includes
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
How one provides continuity of care
23. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Perceived loss
Overflow Incontinence
Diagnostic surgery
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
24. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Post - operative complications Coughing
Hospice Care
25. Containing or mixed with blood
Sanguineous wound drainage
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Components of a clear liquid diet
Human Dimensions of Health
26. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
What elevates HDL
Post - operative complications Coughing
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Convalescent period
27. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
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28. Equal care & rights for all
Pallative Care
Social Justice
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
29. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Urge Incontinence
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
30. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Ways to help a patient manage pain
solube fiber
Virus
Affective teaching strategy
31. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Surgical classifications: Urgent
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Causes of food poisoning
Psychomotor learning
32. Benefit the patient.
Beneficence
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Advocacy
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
33. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
What is adpie & why do we use it
Susceptible Host
Stress Incontinence
34. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Abdominal physical assessment
Cognitive teaching strategy
Community Factors Affecting Health
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
35. 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
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Characteristics of a colostomy
Affective learning
Susceptibility
36. 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
Community Factors Affecting Health
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Justice
37. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Post - operative complications Often painful
Affective learning
38. 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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39. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Ileostomy -
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Fecal Occult Blood Test
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
40. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
Affective teaching strategy
Ablative surgery
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Causes of food poisoning
41. 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
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Diagnostic surgery
42. Keep promises
Fidelity
Susceptible Host
Human Dimensions of Health
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
43. Loss that is yet to come
urinary retention
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Anticipatory loss
44. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Urge Incontinence
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
45. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Justice
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Purulent wound drainage
46. Appoints an agent that the person trusts to make decisions in the event of subsequent incapacity.
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Serous wound drainage
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Combination Directive
47. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Human dignity
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Deception
48. Point of escape of the organism from the reservoir (Ex: Respiratory - GI - Genitourinary - break in skin)
Postmortem Care
Portal of Exit
Human dignity
Community Factors Affecting Health
49. Process of emptying the bladder
Post - operative complications Often painful
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Ways to help a patient manage pain
micturition - urination - or voiding
50. 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
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Definition of acute illness
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)