Nutrition
A client is diagnosed with renal failure. Name 2 foods or food categories they should avoid.
What are foods high in sodium, phosphorus, & potassium?
Name 3 risk factors for pneumonia.
What is smoking, hospitalization, chronic disease, malnutrition, >65 yrs age, < 5 yrs age, immunocompromised, alcohol consumption?
•Name the 3 levels of prevention for cancer.
•What is primary, secondary, and tertiary?
•Name the diabetic medication that the nurse should be concerned about when the client has a CT with IV contrast ordered.
•What is metformin?
•A client is receiving antiretrovirals. Name the laboratory data that the nurse should monitor.
•What is BUN, creatinine, and liver function tests?
The person consulted for TPN initiation.
Who is the pharmacist?
A diagnostic lab that can help indicate thrombosis.
What is a d-dimer?
•Name the organization that is specific for breast cancer referrals.
•What is Reach for Recovery?
Name the electrolyte that the nurse is concerned about when a client is diagnosed with pancreatitis.
•What is hypocalcemia?
•A disease process of chronic inflammation that can occur anywhere in the body.
•What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
This is the frequency in which the bag of TPN must be changed.
What is every 24 hours?
•A post-op client has sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain, sat 90%, HR 110 bpm, RR 26/min, temp 98.6 F. The nurse’s priority is to...
a. initiate oxygen
b. call the MD
c. administer pain medication
What is administer oxygen?
•Name the electrolyte that clients with lymphoma are at risk for developing.
•What is hypercalcemia?
•Name 3 complications that can occur when glucose is not regulated in clients with diabetes.
•What is kidney failure, diabetic retinopathy, PVD, hypertension, poor circulation leading to foot problems, periodontal disease, decreased immune system, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, & autonomic neuropathy?
•This is where does Rheumatoid Arthritis affect the body.
•What are the joints?
This macronutrient is essential to help enable tissue growth and repair.
What is protein?
Name 3 clinical manifestations of anemia.
What is pallor, fatigue, dizziness, tachypnea, tachycardia?
•Purpose of the PET scan for clients diagnosed with cancer.
•What is look for other areas of metastasis?
•Name the onset of Humalog.
•What is 15-30 min?
•ANA screens for this.
•What is the immune response in the body?
Name 2 complications that can occur with TPN/PPN administration.
What is hyperglycemia, fluid overload, and hypoglycemia (when TPN dcd)?
Name 3 priorities when a client presents with sickle cell pain and/or crisis.
What is oxygenation, pain control, & IV fluids?
•Name the priority nursing intervention for a client diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.
•What is comfort and pain control?
•Name 3 priority interventions for clients admitted with pancreatitis.
•What is NPO, IV fluids, pain control, assessment, and strict I & O?
•Explain how viral load increases and decreases in relation to treatment.
•What is viral load increases as the disease progresses, but when clients take antivirals and it works, the viral load will decrease?