Nutrition
Provides energy and vitamins.
What are fats?
Painful or discomfort with urination often due to infection or injury
What is dysuria?
Loss of color
What is palor?
An audiogram identifies whether hearing loss is sensorineural and/or conductive.
What is Audiometry?
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time-Limited
What are SMART Goals?
Water is the most basic of all nutrients and is crucial for body fluid and cellular function.
What is the role of water in response to nutrition?
This test is commonly ordered in addition to a urinalysis to confirm the presence of bacteria in urine revealed on the urine reagent strip.
What is a urine culture?
Clients should be kept clean, dry, and repositioned frequently. If the client is at high risk for pressure injury development, supportive surfaces, preventive dressings, toileting schedules, hydration, and nutritional interventions are implemented along with a mobilization
What are the nursing interventions to prevent pressure ulcers?
Loss of central vision from deterioration of the center of the retina.
What is Macular degeneration?
Serves as a baseline, is used to identify trends or patterns, guides treatment decisions, and is analyzed to evaluate outcomes.
What are objective findings?
The body breaks down food into simple substances that are either absorbed by the bloodstream as nutrients or eliminated by the body as waste.
What is the act of digestion?
An external catheter
What is Purewic?
Used on infected, deep wounds or necrotic tissue. Provides a moist wound bed. Prevents skin breakdown in high-pressure areas.
What is Hydrogel?
What is face the client when speaking?
An intervention that the nurse can perform without a prescription or a provider's order.
What are independent nursing interventions?
Calcium and Iron
What are essential minerals for women?
Stress, urge, overflow, reflex, functional, and transient
What are the major types of urinary incontinence?
The 6 categories of ranking a client's risk for alterations in skin integrity using the Braden Scale.
A mother senses that the bath water is too hot as she sees steam rising from the water.
What is sensory perception?
The independent nursing intervention that teaches the patients how to prevent DVTs.
What are compression socks?
This diet can lead to deficiencies in calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, iron zinc, and vitamin B12, which leads to pernicious anemia.
What is a vegan diet?
These populations are at higher risk for nocturnal enuresis.
What are children, and adults who consume high levels of alcohol or take certain medications?
Stage 1: Non-blanchable Erythema
Stage 3: Full-Thickness Skin Loss
Stage 4: Full-Thickness Skin and tissue Loss
Unstageable Pressure Injury: Obscured Full-Thickness and Tissue Loss
What are the different stages of pressure ulcers?
A disorder of endolymph accumulation in the inner ear.
What is Ménière’s disease?
Aortic
Pulmonic
Erbs Point
Tricuspid
Mitral
What is the order of the heart valve placement for auscultation?