WOUNDS and SKIN INTEGRITY
This term describes a localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence, resulting from pressure or pressure in combination with shear.
What is a pressure injury?
The nutrient which maintains body temperature,
What is water?
The oxygenation delivery device provides a flow rate between 1-6 lpm and delivers 24-44% oxygen.
What is a nasal cannula?
This term refers to actions taken to prevent the occurence of disease or injury.
What is health protection?
This technique involves asking patients to repeat in their own words what they have been taught.
What is teach-back technique?
An assessment tool used determined that a bedbound patient has no risk of skin integrity challenges related to mobility, body weight, nutrition or incontinence.
What the Braden scale?
This stage of a pressure injury involves full-thickness tissue loss, with exposed bone, tendon, or muscle.
What is Stage 4?
The lab value used to assess nutritional status.
What is albumin?
This term refers to the movement of air into and out of the lungs.
What is ventilation?
This term refers to activities that improve well-being and quality of life.
What is health promotion?
This term refers to the process of recording patient information in a written or electronic format.
What is documentation.
Apple juice, broth, grape juice, and Sprite.
What are fluids for a clear liquid diet?
This type of wound healing occurs when wound edges are neatly approximated, like in surgical incisions, and heals quickly with minimal scarring.
What is primary intention?
This type of feeding involves delivering nutrients directly into the stomach through a tube.
What is enteral nutrition?
This term refers to the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to tissues and the removal of waste products.
What is perfusion?
The name of the initiative to protect health and decrease health disparities.
What is healthy people 2020?
This term refers to the process of communicating patient information to the other healthcare providers.
What is oral reporting?
This is done when a patient refuses treatment of any kind (3 answers)
What is reapproach, contact the provider, and document?
This intervention is essential to prevent complications like pressur eulcers in a bedridden patient.
What is repositioning every 2 hours?
This term describes the energy required to sustain life activities such as breathing, circulation, heart rate, and temperature.
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
This term refers to the flow of blood through the circulatory system.
What is circulation?
This term refers to the process of identifying and reducing health risks.
What is health prevention?
This term refers to the process of assessing a patient's understanding and readiness to learn.
What is patient teaching?
This is used to heal wounds that aren't healing from the inside out.
What is a wound vac (negative pressure wound therapy or NPWT)?
This process involves the removal of necrotic (eschar) tissue from a wound to promote healing.
What is debridement?
The lab value which gives the most accurate/best lab value of protein in the body.
What is prealbumin?
This term refers to the process of breathing in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
This term refers to the process of achieving and maintaining a state of good health.
What is wellness?
This term refers to the process of determining the effectiveness of patient education.
What is evaluation?
Used to heal and debride a wound from the inside out.
What is the purpose of a wet to dry dressing?