This refers to the nurse anticipating potential complications and intervening appropriately.
What is nursing vigilance?
This is a disease has a skin rash that is exacerbated by sunlight.
What is lupus (SLE)?
This is the removal of necrotic or dead tissue by mechanical, surgical, chemical, or autolytic means
What is debridement?
These are the 3 protective immune responses to protect the body from invading pathogens
What are phagocytic, humoral, and cellular responses?
This includes interventions conducted independently by the nurse in response to actual or potential problems.
What is nursing dx or nursing problems?
A nutritional tool developed by the USDA
What is MyPlate?
This is used as treatment for venous insufficiency ulcers. Examples include Una Boots and wraps.
What is compression therapy?
This consists of exposing a patient to common environmental and food allergies for diagnostic purposes.
What is a scratch test?
These include variables such as demographic, illness, psychosocial, and financial
What is factors affecting adherence to a therapeutic regimen (Social Determinants of Health)?
Signs include dry or brittle hair/nails, poor muscle tone, flakey skin, and dark circles under the eyes among many others.
What is nutritional deficit?
These are wounds that are large and superficial, usually on the lower legs.
What are venous insufficiency (venous stasis) ulcers?
This is a disease that causes accumulation of uric acid crystals in synovial fluid due to the inability to metabolize purines.
What is gout?
This evident when nurses use facts to make timely decisions for very specific patient centered outcome
What is critical thinking?
These labs are most often used to measure protein deficit in adults.
What is pre-albumin and albumin?
These are usually small circular wounds commonly on the toes and the feet.
What are arterial insufficiency ulcers?
This disease cause break down of cartilage in the joints resulting in deterioration of the bone and development of bone spurs.
What is osteoarthritis?
These represent problems managed by the physician in response to physiological processes and interventions include monitoring and medication administration.
What are collaborative or medical problems?
This is a formula that provides complete nutrition for patients who cannot take in nutrients through the GI tract
What is total parenteral nutrition?
What is a carbuncle?
This disease presents with joint pain, fatigue, lymph node enlargement, and elevation of CRP and ESR
What is rheumatoid arthritis?