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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. 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
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Autonomy

2. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Psychological loss
Definition of acute illness
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Characteristics of a colostomy

3. 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
urinary retention
Pre - operative assessment includes
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What elevates HDL

4. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Comfort Measures Only
Symptoms of UTI
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern

5. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Signs of patient nearing death
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Ethical distress
Anticipatory loss

6. Medications - narcotics - iron preparations - chronic use of stimulant laxatives - antibiotics - Constipation or diarrhea is common side effect of meds Treat Constipation: - increasing fiber - fluids - activity - allowing time daily - may use bulk
Incubation period
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Maturational loss
Full stage of illness

7. 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
Human Dimensions of Health
Full stage of illness
Living Wills
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)

8. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
TPN
Post - operative complications Coughing
Ways to help a patient manage pain

9. 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
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Maturational loss
Pallative Care

10. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
Post - operative complications Often painful
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Integrity
Susceptibility

11. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Bacteria
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Reservoir

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

13. Process of emptying the bladder
chronic illness
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
micturition - urination - or voiding

14. 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

15. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Reconstructive surgery
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
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
How one provides continuity of care
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found

17. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Virus
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.

18. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Affective learning
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Post - operative complications Coughing

19. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Causes of food poisoning
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Sanguineous wound drainage

20. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Pallative Care
Characteristics of a colostomy
Portal of Entry
Bacteria

21. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Susceptible Host
Reservoir
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Psychomotor learning

22. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Incubation period
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Serosanguineous wound drainage

23. 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
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Paternalism
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family

24. 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
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Advocacy
Definition of acute illness
Test used for determng blood in stool

25. 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
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Ileostomy -

26. 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
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Smoking destroys What type of fat
How one provides continuity of care
Ablative surgery

27. Point of escape of the organism from the reservoir (Ex: Respiratory - GI - Genitourinary - break in skin)
Portal of Exit
Post - operative complications Coughing
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare

28. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
Full stage of illness
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
urinary retention

29. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Reservoir
Hospice Care
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Diagnostic surgery

30. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Ethical distress
Ablative surgery
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient

31. 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

32. Altered self - image
Post - operative complications Often painful
What elevates HDL
Psychological loss
Affective learning

33. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Challenges to health care access
Stoma Care Assessments
Serous wound drainage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern

34. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Susceptible Host
Social Justice
Community Factors Affecting Health
Total (reflex) Incontinence

35. 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
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Community Factors Affecting Health
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

36. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Enuresis
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.

37. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
What antiseptic does
Symptoms of UTI
Advance Directives

38. 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
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Factors affecting grief and dying
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.

39. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Reservoir
Smoking destroys What type of fat

40. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Functional Incontinence
Factors affecting UTI's

41. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Human Dimensions of Health
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Psychomotor learning

42. Difficulty or painful urination
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Stress Incontinence
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.

43. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Justice
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.

44. Containing or mixed with blood
Post - operative complications Often painful
Sanguineous wound drainage
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Medical Asepsis - clean technique

45. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
solube fiber
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Purulent wound drainage

46. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Symptoms of UTI
urinary retention
Surgical Classification - emergent

47. Frequency & amount of stools - history of diarrhea - constipation - impaction - Any abnormality of stool appearance - Use of laxatives or enemas - Dietary habits - food allergies - fluids - fiber - Amount of activity & exercise - Medications - Stress
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history

48. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.

49. 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
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Terminal Illness
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure

50. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Perceived loss
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptible Host