Structure & Function
Mechanics
Assessment
Diversity and Lifespan
Nursing Grab Bag
100

The flow of blood through the arteries and capillaries, delivering oxygen and nutrients to cells and carrying away waste.

What is Perfusion... DUH :)

100

Describe contractility.

What is how forcefully the heart squeezes?

100

The normal assessment finding for blood pressure

What is 120/80?

100

In darker skin, cyanosis can appear______.

What is gray?

100

Name A.D.P.I.E

What is Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation?

200

What system returns extra fluid from the tissues to the bloodstream?

What is the lymphatic system?

200

This is thhe formula for Cardiac Output.

What is Heart Rate x Stroke volume?

200

True or false?

Normal assessment findings in skin color and temp include cool and dry, even color, and matches with the patient's skin tone.

What is false?

It should be warm and dry.

200

Describe orthostatic hypotension?

What is blood pressure drops when standing?

200

Part of the brain that controls, posture, balance, and motor coordination.

What is the cerebellum?

300

Vessels that are one cell thick; where oxygen and waste are exchanged with the tissues.

What are capillaries?

300

True or False: Veins hold most of the blood volume.

What is True?

300

True or False?

3+ and equal on both sides are normal findings in peripheral pulses.

What is false?

It is 2+

300

How much higher is a normal heart rate for a pregnant individual compares to the normal findings?

What is 15-25 bpm higher?

300

Cranial nerve XII:

Sensory or motor nerve?

What does it impact?

How to you evaluate it?

What is Motor nerve, tongue movement and symmetry, move tongue side to side and say, "Light, Tight, Dynamite"?

400

Name the four valves in the heart. 

What are the tricuspid, mitral, pulmonic, and aortic valves?

400

Valves that close during S2 (dub sound)

What are aortic and pulmonary valves?

400

Not assessment related but name and describe the two types of perfusion.

What is...

Central perfusion: the force of the blood movement generated by cardiac output

Tissue perfusion: volume of blood flow that reaches specific tissues

400

With age, artery walls lose _______ and gain ______, leading to stiffness.

What is lose elastin and gain collagen?

400

Type of pain that occurs due to a lesion or disease in the somatosensory system.

What is neuropathic pain?

500

Name the order of the electrical conduction in the heart.

What is - Sa node -> AV node -> Bundle of His ->Purkinje fibers

500

Describe the loop/path of blood in perfusion.

What is Vena cavae -> right heart -> lungs -> left heart -> aorta and arteries -> capillaries

500

Also not assessment related:

Verbalize the pathway of how blood flows in the body, starting from the vena cava.

What is 

Inferior/superior vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta, body/tissues?

500

At birth, the ________ and ________ close, switching fetal circulation to the adult pattern.

(Name 1)

What is the foramen ovale and the ductus arteriosus?

500

Verbalize how to assess pain.

SOCRATES:

What is Site, Onset, Character, Radiation, Associated symptoms, Time, exacerbating factors, and Severity?

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