Nutrition
No food or fluid by mouth
What is NPO?
Difficulty moving bowels due to hardened stool; defined as fewer than three bowel movements in a week.
What is constipation?
At least every two hours if they have limited mobility and can not reposition themselves easily
How often should a patient be repositioned to prevent pressure injuries?
Vision, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, kinesthetic
Deficits in what senses can affect sensory perception?
Standard adult vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, oral temperature, respirations, and oxygen saturation).
What is: BP: 120/80; Pulse: 60-100 bpm; Oral Temperature: 96.8-100.4o F; Respirations: 12-20/min; Oxygen Saturation: 95-100%
19-25
What is the BMI range for healthy weight?
Females must drink 2.7 Liters a day, and Males must drink 3.7 Liters a day.
Patient education for daily fluid intake
Excessive sweating, increased local skin temperature, abnormal skin pH, and deep skin folds can predispose a client to what type of tissue injury?
What is moisture-associated skin damage (MASD)
Can result in a loss of sensation, difficulty speaking, and visual deficits
What is a stroke?
Medical gloves used for patients that have a latex allergy
What are nitrile gloves (latex free)
This calculation is found by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared
What is body mass index (BMI)?
This can help stimulate peristalsis, the muscle contractions that move stool through the intestines.
Exercising for 15-20 minutes per day
The surgical removal of dead tissue and debris that can cause infection
What is surgical debridement?
What is visual acuity?
The health care team that works collaboratively to provide holistic care to clients.
What is the Interprofessional Team?
What is bulimia nervosa?
Viral and bacterial gastroenteritis, antibiotic therapy, inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome.
What are the top 4 causes of diarrhea?
Gel-like dressing that stimulates growth of granulation tissue and keeps the wound bed moist, is used for small abrasions, superficial burns, pressure injuries, and postoperative wounds
What is a hydrocolloid dressing?
Snellen and Rosenbaum eye charts can be used to determine.
What is distance vision
Type of precaution used for patients with measles, pulmonary, or laryngeal tuberculosis and varicella (chicken pox).
What is airborne precaution?
Macronutrient that provides most of the body's energy and fiber
What are carbohydrates?
A significant contributing factor to skin breakdown and falls in older adults
What is urinary incontinence: the involuntary loss of urine
Dehiscence is a complete or partial separation of the suture line and underlying tissues that occurs when a wound fails to heal properly due to poor surgical technique, infection, or presence of foreign particles in the wound. Dehiscence is often followed by what type of discharge?
What is serosanguineous discharge?
A patient with conductive hearing loss hears better in this environment
What is noisy?
Blood pressure range that represents stage 1 hypertension.
What is 130-139/80-89