Pathophysiology
This condition occurs when the airways become narrowed due to bronchoconstriction and inflammation.
What is asthma?
This medication reverses the effects of opioids and can rapidly improve opioid-induced respiratory depression.
What is naloxone?
The single most crucial first step a nurse must take if a patient demonstrates symptoms of a hemolytic blood transfusion reaction.
What is stopping the transfusion immediately?
Known as "The Lady with the Lamp," she established the first formal nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London and authored Notes on Nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
A normal adult resting heart rate is generally within this range.
What is 60–100 beats/min?
In this condition, the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs, often causing edema and shortness of breath.
What is heart failure?
This class of medication is commonly used as a rescue medication during an acute asthma attack.
What are short-acting beta₂ agonists, such as albuterol?
The positioning intervention used to relieve pressure on the umbilical cord when a prolapsed cord is observed during labor.
What is Knee-Chest position (or Trendelenburg)?
The pioneering nurse who organized nursing care for wounded soldiers during the American Civil War and founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
This electrolyte is especially important for normal cardiac conduction and muscle function.
What is potassium?
A patient with diabetes mellitus has persistently elevated blood glucose because of inadequate insulin production or insulin resistance. What is happening physiologically?
What is impaired glucose regulation?
A patient taking furosemide should be monitored closely for changes in which electrolyte?
What is potassium?
The priority assessment parameter to measure for 60 full seconds prior to administering a dose of oral or IV Digoxin or Metoprolol.
What is the Apical Pulse (or Heart Rate)?
The first African American professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
A patient has pH 7.28, PaCO₂ 52 mmHg, and HCO₃⁻ 24 mEq/L. What acid-base imbalance is present?
What is respiratory acidosis?
This type of distributive shock is triggered by a severe, systemic IgE-mediated allergic reaction that causes massive vasodilation and bronchoconstriction.
What is Anaphylactic Shock?
The narrow therapeutic serum range for Digoxin, above which signs of toxicity like visual halos and nausea occur.
What is 0.5 to 2.0 ng/mL?
The diagnostic assessment method used to rapidly estimate the percentage of total body surface area (TBSA) burned in an adult.
What is the Rule of Nines?
The nursing theorist who developed the "Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory," emphasizing assisting patients to meet their own self-care needs.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
A patient has pH 7.50, PaCO₂ 30 mmHg, and HCO₃⁻ 24 mEq/L. What acid-base imbalance is present?
What is respiratory alkalosis?
A localized, permanent dilation or bulging of an arterial wall, most commonly occurring in the abdominal aorta.
What is an Aneurysm?
The FDA Black Box Warning associated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Ciprofloxacin regarding connective tissue.
What is Tendonitis / Tendon Rupture?
According to triage priorities, this patient among a group of four requires immediate evaluation: a patient with a closed radius fracture, a patient complaining of a sudden "thunderclap" headache with a stiff neck, or a patient with stable angina relieved by nitroglycerin.
Who is the patient with the sudden thunderclap headache and stiff neck (suspected subarachnoid hemorrhage/meningitis)?
Founded the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side of New York.
Who is Lillian Wald?
A patient has a potassium level of 6.7 mEq/L. What complication is the nurse most concerned about?
What are life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias?