Heart Failure & Fluids
This cardiac term refers to the volume of blood ejected by the ventricle with each heartbeat.
What is stroke volume?
CKD is divided into this number of stages that nurses must be able to identify.
What is five (5)?
This protein in red blood cells is responsible for carrying oxygen, and its available amount is NOT shown by pulse oximetry.
What is hemoglobin?
This approach to communication involves listening, reflecting, asking clear questions, and avoiding minimizing or arguing.
What is therapeutic communication?
These are the two broad categories of immunity that students must differentiate.
What are innate and adaptive immunity?
This term describes the force the heart must pump against, often related to vascular resistance.
What is afterload?
Patients on this type of dialysis use the lining of the abdomen to filter blood.
What is peritoneal dialysis?
This craving for non-food substances is an iron-deficiency cue reviewed for assessment.
What is pica?
This class of antidepressants requires teaching that benefit builds over about 4–8 weeks.
What are SSRIs?
HIV progresses through this number of stages.
What is three (3)?
This measurement, expressed as a percentage, indicates the portion of blood pumped out of the ventricle with each contraction.
What is ejection fraction?
This specialized diet requires teaching patients about specific foods, often related to electrolyte restrictions.
What is a renal diet?
This lab value is low in iron-deficiency anemia and reflects iron stores.
What is (low) ferritin?
This medication for anxiety is taken on a regular schedule rather than as a rapid rescue medication.
What is buspirone?
This lab value and the ANC are key concepts for activating the oncology fever pathway.
What is the WBC (white blood cell count)?
These two conditions must be differentiated by their causes and symptoms, one marked by excess fluid and one by inadequate fluid.
What are fluid volume overload and fluid volume deficit?
These three electrolytes have imbalances whose treatments must be discussed in CKD review.
What are sodium, potassium, and calcium?
Taking iron with this vitamin, if tolerated, can improve absorption.
What is vitamin C?
Markedly reduced need for sleep, impulsive behavior, pressured speech, and grandiose beliefs suggest this state.
What is mania?
These five disorders are compared in the immunity unit: RA, SLE, HIV, OA, and this crystal-related joint condition.
What is gout?
This side of heart failure is typically associated with pulmonary congestion symptoms.
What is left-sided heart failure?
This type of dialysis requires nursing care that differs from peritoneal dialysis and involves filtering blood through a machine.
What is hemodialysis?
This expected, harmless change in bowel output should be taught to patients taking iron.
What are dark stools?
This potentially dangerous syndrome with SSRIs includes agitation, fever, sweating, tremor, or diarrhea.
What is serotonin syndrome?
This chemotherapy drug requires cardiac-function monitoring.
What is doxorubicin?
This classification system is commonly used to categorize the functional severity of heart failure.
What is the NYHA (New York Heart Association) classification?
Recognizing the key symptoms of these imbalances can be practiced using the concept map and mystery challenge.
What are electrolyte imbalances?
These are common triggers of sickle cell crisis, including dehydration, infection, cold, and low oxygen.
What are sickle cell crisis triggers?
This nonpharmacologic therapy, abbreviated, is reviewed as a treatment for insomnia.
What is CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia)?
In this oncologic emergency, potassium, phosphorus, uric acid, and creatinine rise while calcium falls.
What is tumor lysis syndrome?
These two terms describe, respectively, an effect on the heart's force of contraction and an effect on heart rate.
What are inotropic and chronotropic?
Reviewing these for CKD includes understanding both diagnostic tools and the medications used to manage the condition.
What are common diagnostics and medications (for CKD)?
Fever, chest pain, cough, or dyspnea in a sickle cell patient may signal this urgent complication.
What is acute chest syndrome?
Complex sleep behaviors such as sleepwalking should be promptly reported with this sleep medication taken immediately before bed.
What is zolpidem?
New severe back pain with weakness, sensory changes, and bladder or bowel changes may signal this complication.
What is spinal cord compression?
This side of heart failure is differentiated from the other by its distinct causes and symptoms, often involving systemic congestion.
What is right-sided heart failure?
The National Kidney Foundation resource on this electrolyte is listed for review, a key concern in CKD.
What is high potassium (hyperkalemia)?
When a transfusion reaction is suspected, this is the very first action in the facility response sequence.
What is stop the transfusion?
For this mood-stabilizing drug, nurses review prescribed level, hydration, consistent sodium intake, and interactions.
What is lithium?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE — HIV becomes this when complications develop and the disease reaches its most advanced stage.
What is AIDS?
When caring for a heart failure patient, the nurse must give attention to these implanted technologies that require special considerations.
What are cardiac devices?
Before choosing an action, the nurse connects symptoms, vital signs, these results, trends, and the patient's baseline.
What are laboratory results?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE — After stopping a suspected reaction transfusion, the nurse maintains IV access using this fluid and this specific tubing.
What is normal saline with new tubing?
Vomiting or diarrhea, worsening tremor, confusion, and unsteady gait indicate this with lithium.
What is lithium toxicity?
For newly diagnosed SLE patients, nurses teach triggers, medications, and these warning signs to watch for.
What are red flag symptoms?
This term refers to the heart's intrinsic ability to contract, one of several cardiac terms tied to cardiac output.
What is contractility?
This clinical judgment theme emphasizes connecting data to baseline before choosing an action.
What is assessment before intervention?
These broad patterns are compared using red-cell indices, iron studies, and reticulocyte response.
What are anemia patterns?
When a client expresses hopelessness, the nurse asks direct, nonjudgmental questions about these four things related to safety.
What are suicidal thoughts, plan, access to means, and immediate safety?
Neutropenic cancer patients are taught to avoid these measurements of temperature.
What are rectal temperatures?