Nutrition
This essential nutrient provides most of the body’s energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The inability to control your bladder resulting in the involuntary passage of urine
What is urinary incontinence?
Developed due to prolonged pressure over an area of the skin
What is a pressure injury?
Nearsightedness
What is myopia?
This is the normal range for an adult's heart rate.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
This diet consists of whole grains and raw and dried fruits.
What is a high-fiber diet?
A tube that drains urine directly from the kidney into an external pouch
What is a nephrostomy tube?
Category of pressure injury where there is full-thickness skin loss with visible adipose tissue
What is stage 3 pressure injury?
When a client lacks the ability to receive sensory stimulus perception
What is sensory deprivation?
This position is commonly used to help with breathing; the patient is sitting up at a 45-90-degree angle.
What is Fowler’s position?
This is a cycle of binge eating followed by purging.
What is bulimia nervosa?
This group of medications increases urination by increasing urine production in the kidneys
What are Diuretics?
Clients should be positioned with the head of the bed lower than this degree to minimize shearing forces
What is 30 degrees?
Sensorineural, Conductive, and Mixed
What are types of hearing alterations?
This person is known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is how you calculate BMI.
What is weight (kg) / height (m2)?
This is a technique nurses commonly use to determine the need for catheterization
What is bladder scanning?
The wound healing process that takes place when the wound is left open to heal and granulation tissue forms
What is secondary healing?
Affects blood vessels in the retina and can lead to vision loss and complete blindness
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
The acronym S.O.A.P. in documentation stands for these four key components.
What are Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan?
This utensil should be avoided in clients at risk of aspirating.
Asprin, ibuprofen, and vitamin C supplements lead to false positives in this diagnostic test
What is a fecal occult blood test(FOBT)?
Type of dressing recommended for moderate to highly exudative wounds
What is an alginate dressing
This factor increases a client's risk for developing cataracts by two to five times and doubles the likelihood of open-angle glaucoma
What is diabetes?
This need from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs includes air, water, and food.
What are physiological needs?