Nutrition
These two nutrients are necessary nutrients for the body. One is used for metabolism in the body and the other helps to complete essential biochemical reactions in the body
What is vitamins and minerals?
On average filters 120-150 quarts of blood to produce about 1-2 quarts of urine
What is the kidneys?
The outermost layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
What are Sight, Smell, Hearing, Taste, and Touch?
What is the five basic senses?
Contractions that occur throughout the digestive system that move food along a pathway to be digested
What is Peristalsis?
This is the process of the body breaking down food into simple substances that can be absorbed into the bloodstream or excreted as waste
What is digestion?
Primary function is to eliminate waste and excess fluid from the body in the form of urine
What is the urinary tract?
Apply light pressure and observe areas darker than the surrounding skin. Skin can appear taunt, shiny, or indurated
How can darkly pigmented skin be assessed for pressure injuries?
Which disease puts patients at risk for multiple sensory deficits?
What is Diabetes?
0.9% sodium chloride solution
When collecting a wound culture, what should the nurse clean the wound with?
These are contraindications for initiating enteral nutrition.
What is GI bleeding, small bowel obstruction, and bowel ischemia?
Urinary leakage as a result of nerve damage
What is reflex incontinence?
Surgical debridement, Irrigation, and Biological debridement
What are the 3 types of wound care that are implemented?
What is the loss occurs from the inner ear or cranial nerve?
What is sensorineural hearing alterations?
Frequent headaches, eye strain, blurred vision, double vision, poor judgment of depth, poor hand-eye coordination.
What is Expected findings of vision loss
This is a diet that includes fruits/veggies, whoe grains, low-fat dairy products, skinless poultry or fish, and limited saturated fats, trans fat, sodium, red meat, and sweetened beverages. Aims to balance intake and use of calories.
What is a Heart Healthy Diet?
May result in kidney infection called Pyelonephritis
What is a urinary tract infection?
Turkey (protein), shellfish (zinc), oranges (vitamin C), broccoli (vitamin A), and salmon (omega 3).
What foods should the nurse include in client education to encourage wound healing?
To speak the words they want to say. They might use short phrases that the listener can understand, such as "hungry now."
What is A client who has expressive aphasia may be unable to?
It is the inability to control urination, resulting in the involuntary passage of urine. Many factors can cause it.
What is Urge incontinence?
This is patient education surrounding Bariatric surgery.
What is making sure to increase intake of iron, calcium, vitamin b12, and ADEK vitamins because of increased of nutritional deficiencies?
Chronic disease that commonly causes inflammation of the small intestine, but it can also affect any part of the GI tract
What is Crohn's disease?
Primary healing (first intention), secondary healing (second intention), and delayed primary closure (tertiary intention).
What are the 3 types of wound healing?
Ensuring the client's safety.
What is A nurse is caring for a client with a visual impairment, what should be the nurse's top priority?
Myopia, hyperopia. Astigmatism, presbyopia, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma.
What is vision alterations?