Medical Abbreviation
CP
What is chest Pain?
Patient will have black stool.
What are Iron supplements?
Patient :77 years old, admitted to the med/surg unit with exacerbation of COPD. Vital signs upon admission : Blood Pressure 156/88, Pulse 101; Respiratory Rate 28, Temperature 97.8°F. Patient reports worsening shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, decreased appetite, and a weight loss of 15 pounds over the past three months. The nurse notices the client is lying flat in bed and currently on 2L O2 via nasal canula with an oxygen saturation level of 88%. Other symptoms include a dry cough, inspiratory and expiratory wheezes upon auscultation of breath sounds.
What is impaired gas exchange?
Patient is admitted to the medical unit for a fall and during his admission he reports drinking 2 1/2 pints of Mike's hard lemonade. He is stable and doing well, until day 2 he reports anxiety, tremors, N/V, and says he sees rats at night.
What is ETOH Withdrawal?
ADPIE
What is the nursing process?
NPO
What is Nothing by mouth?
Decreasing the amount of acid your stomach relieves symptoms such as heartburn, difficulty swallowing, and cough. It helps heal acid damage to the stomach and esophagus, helps prevent ulcers, and may help prevent cancer of the esophagus. It is in the PPI classification.
What is protonix?
Care Plan: Measured over a period of several days weeks or months
What are long term goals?
The professional nurse offers care without incorporating their own values and beliefs and respects the values of the client. The nurse asks appropriate questions about the patient's culture
What is cultural considerations in assessment?
Describes the symptoms of global decline to include weight loss, decreased appetite and poor nutrition, and inactivity, often accompanied by dehydration, depressive symptoms, impaired immune function, and low cholesterol.
What is Failure to thrive syndrome?
SOB
What is Shortness of Breath?
Route: Used to arouse consciousness because the release of ammonia (NH3) gas that accompanies their use irritates the membranes of the nose and lungs, and thereby triggers an inhalation reflex.
What is inhalation?
Inflammation and narrowing of the airway in any location, from your throat out into your lungs, can result in wheezing.
What is Asthma or COPD?
Blowing, whooshing, or rasping sound heard during a heartbeat. The sound is caused by turbulent (rough) blood flow through the heart valves or near the heart.
What is a heart murmur?
T.I.D
What is three times in a day?
SBO
What is a small bowel Obstruction?
Route: Voltaren
What is topical?
Caused by a deficiency of vitamins, oxygen, or glucose. It is mostly reversible and can be controlled with medication and suitable treatment.
What is Acute Metabolic Encephalopathy?
Your patient suffers from a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, often including tremors. Nerve cell damage in the brain causes dopamine levels to drop,
What is Parkinson's disease?
Most effective way to prevent spread of bacteria?
What is hand hygiene?
CTAB
What is clear to auscultation bilaterally?
Medication that has side effect of turning urine brown or black.
What is Levodopa?
A tool that diagrams the critical thinking associated with making accurate nursing diagnoses.
What is a concept map?
Patient had a fall and was down for 8 hours unable to move. Upon testing the patient was diagnosed with breakdown of muscle tissue. It results in the release of a protein, called myoglobin, into the blood. Myoglobin can damage the kidneys.
Symptoms include dark, reddish urine, a decreased amount of urine, muscles aches and weakness.
What is Rhabdomyolysis?
Theory based around caring
Who is Jean Watson?
F.A.S.T
What is Face, Arms, Speech, and Time , an acronym for s/s of a patient having a stroke?
Blood thinner that acts by the anticoagulant factor XA inhibitor.
What is Elaquis?
Assessment: Physical and developmental; emotional; social; spiritual; and intellectual factors, as well as previous hospitalizations, immunizations, and previous surgery
What are elements that should be included in a health history?
A collection of pus in the pleural cavity, gram-positive, or culture from the pleural fluid.
What is an empyema?
Ethics: Actions that benefit the patient.
What is Beneficence?
PRBC
What is packed red blood cells?
Sulfonamides or sulfanilamides belong to an important class of synthetic antimicrobial drugs that are pharmacologically used as broad spectrum for the treatment of bacterial infections, can cause a serious life threatening side effect of this class of medications?
What is Steven Johnson Syndrome?
Patient complaining of tightness or pain in the chest, neck, back, or arms, as well as fatigue, lightheadedness, abnormal heartbeat, and anxiety.
What is a Myocardial infarction?
Patient is admitted for uncontrolled HTN and Diabetes. Patient displays the following symptoms decreased urinary output, swelling due to fluid retention, nausea, fatigue, and shortness of breath. Sometimes symptoms may be subtle or may not appear at all.
Acute Renal Failure?
This will be suspended when the patient goes to the operating room.
What is a DNR Status?