Nutrition
BMI greater than 30.
A bowel pattern of difficult and infrequent evacuation of hard, dry feces.
What is constipation?
Accumulation of fluid in tissues most often from direct trauma or impaired venous return.
What is edema (swelling)?
Can cause cloudy and blurry vision
What is Cataracts?
Speaking up for clients' needs when they are unable to do so themselves.
What is advocacy?
Holds and digests food using acids and enzymes.
What is stomach?
Use of a lighted instrument by the provider to visualize and collect tissue samples for biopsy or remove polyps from the colon or lower small bowel
Intact, non-blanchable skin with deep red, maroon, or purple discoloration.
What is deep tissue injury?
A decrease in the ability to focus up close or with small print
What is Presbyopia?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, ABCDE, Least restrictive/Invasive, Survival Potential, and Acute vs. Chronic.
What is priority setting frameworks?
Nutritional intake through the gastrointestinal tract.
What is enteral nutrition?
View of gross renal structures and structural abnormalities using high-frequency sound waves
What is a renal ultrasound?
Full-thickness skin loss with visible adipose tissue, possible granulation, slough, and eschar. No exposed muscle, tendons, or ligaments.
What is stage 3 pressure ulcer?
The inability to see, smell, hear, taste, or feel
What are sensory alterations?
Skill set needed to provide safe and quality care: safety, evidence-based practice, patient-centered care, informatics, teamwork & collaboration, quality improvement.
What is QSEN?
What are Macronutrients?
Loss of small amounts of urine caused by laughing, sneezing, or lifting.
What is stress incontinence?
Contains both serum and blood. It is watery and looks pale and pink due to a mixture of red and clear fluid.
What is serosanguinous drainage?
Sensorineural, conductive, and mixed.
What is types of hearing alterations?
Infection control measures for MRSA, Shigella, RSV, and C. Diff.
What is contact precautions?
Removes water and electrolytes from food particles for the body’s use while turning the rest into feces
What is the large intestine?
Urine specimen collection in which urethral meatus must be cleaning prior to midstream urine collection.
What is clean catch?
A dehiscence that involves the protrusion of visceral organs through a wound opening
What is evisceration?
What is diabetic retinopathy?
pH: 7.25, PaCO2: 40, HCO3: 18
What is metabolic acidosis?