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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Urge Incontinence
Cognitive learning
pre - operative assessments & screenings
2. Keep promises
Ileostomy -
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Fidelity
3. 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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4. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Incontinence
Ablative surgery
What is adpie & why do we use it
Abdominal physical assessment
5. 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
Palliative surgery
Purulent wound drainage
Autonomy
6. Bladder - nervous system damage
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Ways to help a patient manage pain
Factors affecting UTI's
Ethical dilemma
7. Diet - should include adequate fiber or bulk - Whole grains - fruits - vegetables - legumes - Eating at regular intervals helps stimulate peristalsis (gastrocolic reflex) - Food allergies or food poisoning may lead to diarrhea - Some foods cause
Cognitive teaching strategy
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Justice
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
8. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Ethical distress
Reservoir
Serous wound drainage
9. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
Ablative surgery
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
10. 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
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Terminal Illness
Stoma Care Cleansing
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
11. - 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
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Virus
Incontinence
12. Inability to empty bladder
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Retention - Altered urine pattern
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
13. Lab / Screenings - Chest x- ray - is there fluid or anything pressing on the heart? - ECG - heart health - circulatory - ischemia - CBC - WBC's - infection - RBC's - platelets - bleeding time - Chemistry profile - Urinalysis
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Ways to help a patient manage pain
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
14. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
How one provides continuity of care
Community Factors Affecting Health
Nursing Ethics
Convalescent period
15. 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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16. Developmental considerations - child has limited understanding but needs to grieve - Family - Who has died - Socioeconomics - financial burden or loss; Cause of Death - Culture - Gender - Religion
Factors affecting grief and dying
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
solube fiber
Affective teaching strategy
17. 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
Living Wills
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
18. 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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19. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Advocacy
Psychological loss
Situational loss
Palliative surgery
20. Regular exercise
Factors affecting a vegan diet
What elevates HDL
Paternalism
Challenges to health care access
21. Smallest of all microorganisms - visible only with an electron microscope (Ex: common cold - AIDS)
Virus
Overflow Incontinence
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
22. Hand Hygiene - Wash - before & after touching patient; before & after wearing gloves - Alchohol - based handrubs - if hands are not visibly soiled - Soap & water - if hands are visibly soiled or contaminated with blood or body fluids; wash for 15 sec
Fecal Occult Blood Test
What antiseptic does
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
23. 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 to
Anticipatory loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Autonomy
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
24. Specific signs & symptom
Advance Directives
Full stage of illness
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Terminal weaning from ventilator
25. To remove a diseased body part (Ex: appendectomy - amputation)
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Postmortem Care
Ablative surgery
26. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Surgical classifications: Urgent
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Surgical asepsis
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
27. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Nonmaleficence
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Factors affecting UTI's
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
28. Storing & recalling of new knowledge (brain)
Cognitive learning
Ethical dilemma
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
29. Act for patient without their consent; Overrides patient autonomy; Nurse decides What is in best interest of patient
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Paternalism
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
30. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations
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31. Anatomical position - Removal of soiled dressings & tubes - Who will bathe the body? - Identification tags - Personal items - Order to release body / mortuary notification - Special handling for communicable disease
Postmortem Care
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Paternalism
Advocacy
32. 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
Nonmaleficence
Fungi
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
pre - operative assessments & screenings
33. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Surgical Classification - emergent
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Surgicale Classification - elective
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
34. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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35. HDL - 'good' type
Portal of Exit
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Susceptibility
36. Deep breathing (TCDB - Turn - Cough - Deep Breathing) - During surgery - cough reflex is suppresses - mucus accumulates - & lungs do not ventilate fully. After surgery - respirations are less effective due to anesthesia - pain meds - & pain - hyperv
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Altruism
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
37. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Factors affecting grief and dying
Reconstructive surgery
Affective teaching strategy
Stoma Care Assessments
38. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Fidelity
Definition of acute illness
Affective learning
chronic illness
39. Body part or function
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Physical loss
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Pallative Care
40. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Susceptible Host
Characteristics of a colostomy
Functional Incontinence
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
41. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Slow Code
Nursing role with grief and death
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
42. 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
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Components of a clear liquid diet
Ileostomy -
43. Collect from specimen port on drainage tubing - Cleanse with alcohol & use sterile syringe to pull out urine - Collect urine only from upper tubing - never from drainage bag - Urinalysis - collect 30 mL; Culture & Sensitivity (C&S) - collect 10 mL -
How one provides continuity of care
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
44. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Paternalism
45. 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
Diagnostic surgery
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Total (reflex) Incontinence
46. Cholesterol: Heredity is biggest factor in how body produces - handles - & excretes cholesterol - Type & amount of fat in diet - Saturated fats: carry cholesterol and stimulate liver to make cholesterol - Higher fat diets can elevate cholesterol blo
What antiseptic does
ostomy
Integrity
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
47. Dysuria - urinary frequency or urgency - cloudy urine with foul odor
TPN
Terminal Illness
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Symptoms of UTI
48. 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
Terminal Illness
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
49. Plantlike organisms - molds (Ex: Athlete's foot - Ringworm)
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Test used for determng blood in stool
Fungi
ostomy
50. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Virus
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Characteristics of a colostomy
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices