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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
Pallative Care
Causes of food poisoning
Challenges to health care access
Incontinence
2. 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
Post - operative complications Coughing
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
What elevates HDL
3. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Definition of acute illness
Post - operative complications Often painful
Urge Incontinence
Full stage of illness
4. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Living Wills
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
micturition - urination - or voiding
5. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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6. Benefit the patient.
Beneficence
Characteristics of a colostomy
Ileostomy -
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
7. Containing or mixed with blood
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Sanguineous wound drainage
Situational loss
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
8. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Terminal Illness
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Autonomy
9. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Convalescent period
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
10. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Purulent wound drainage
Stress Incontinence
TPN
Virus
11. 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
Community Factors Affecting Health
Portal of Exit
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
12. Regular exercise
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Stoma Care Assessments
Factors affecting UTI's
What elevates HDL
13. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
'informed consent'
Susceptible Host
Terminal weaning from ventilator
14. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Combination Directive
Ethical distress
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Reconstructive surgery
15. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Human dignity
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Nursing role with grief and death
16. 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
Ileostomy -
Human Dimensions of Health
What is adpie & why do we use it
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
17. - 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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18. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptible Host
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
19. 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
Challenges to health care access
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
urinary retention
20. 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
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Urge Incontinence
Stoma Care Cleansing
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
21. Body part or function
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Physical loss
Reservoir
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
22. 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
Palliative surgery
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ileostomy -
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
23. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
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24. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
25. Acceptable environment for an infectious agent
Susceptible Host
Psychological loss
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Serous wound drainage
26. 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
Deception
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Physical loss
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
27. Patient's voluntary agreement to undergo a procedure or treatment after receiving the following information in layman's terms: Description of procedures & potential alternatives - Underlying disease process & its course - Name & qualifications of per
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28. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Reservoir
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Combination Directive
29. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Bacteria
Pre - operative assessment includes
Purulent wound drainage
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
30. 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
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
What elevates HDL
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
31. Code of ethics; accountability
Overflow Incontinence
Causes of food poisoning
Integrity
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
32. 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
Stoma Care Cleansing
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Pre - operative assessment includes
Diagnostic surgery
33. 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
Causes of food poisoning
Test used for determng blood in stool
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
34. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
35. Act for patient without their consent; Overrides patient autonomy; Nurse decides What is in best interest of patient
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
solube fiber
Overflow Incontinence
Paternalism
36. O Spiritual / Religious needs - Know & respect special ceremonies - rituals - Contact clergy to visit if patient desires
Diagnostic surgery
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
37. 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
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Nonmaleficence
Challenges to health care access
Factors that affect a patients health state
38. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Urge Incontinence
Components of a clear liquid diet
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
39. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Susceptibility
Challenges to health care access
Psychomotor teaching strategy
40. 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
Full stage of illness
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Signs of patient nearing death
41. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Stoma Care Cleansing
Maturational loss
42. Bladder - nervous system damage
What antiseptic does
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Perceived loss
43. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Serous wound drainage
What elevates HDL
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
44. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Beneficence
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Deception
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
45. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
Slow Code
Affective teaching strategy
What disinfectant does
What is adpie & why do we use it
46. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Incontinence
Community Factors Affecting Health
Convalescent period
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
47. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Causes of food poisoning
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Palliative surgery
48. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Surgical asepsis
Situational loss
49. Degree of resistance the potential host has to the pathogen
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Susceptibility
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Palliative surgery
50. Process of emptying the bladder
Combination Directive
Ways to prevent food poisoning
micturition - urination - or voiding
Cognitive learning