Patient Education
MedicAlert bracelet, Prevent debris from entering stoma, avoid exposure to people with infections, and avoid swimming and use care when showering
What are new tracheostomy patient instructions?
A nurse is checking to ensure the weights are off the floor for which patient
What is a patient in traction?
4 risk factors for breast cancer
What are early menarche, family history of breast cancer, high-dose radiation exposure to the chest, and previous cancer of the breast, uterus, and ovaries?
Patient has a BUN of 45 Cr 2.2 with decreased urine output
What is an acute kidney injury?
PR interval of 0.20
Pulmonary Edema Prevention
What is weighing yourself daily?
Priority intervention for a patient in skin traction
What is checking for skin breakdown?
A stoma that is elongated with a swollen appearance
What is a prolapsed stoma?
Sign of a patent hemodialysis fistula
What is palpation of a thrill over the fistula?
Maintain activity level as prescribed
Patient education regarding contact lenses with conjunctivitis
What is discontinue wearing them until conjunctivitis is gone?
Finding on an fresh above-the-knee amputation site
What is pink color to the skin flap?
Lab result associated with Multiple Myeloma
What is an increased calcium level?
General instructions for a patient receiving hemodialysis
What is that several types of medications will be held on the day of dialysis until after the procedure?
Painless procedure that takes 30-60 minutes
What is an echocardiogram?
Most common side effect to tell a patient initiating Metformin
What are GI disturbances?
Early manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis
What is anorexia?
Correct position of the Right arm after a Right mastectomy
What is elevated on a pillow?
Most common manifestations of Polycystic Kidney Disease
What are flank pain & hematuria?
Prinzmetal's Angina treatment
What are calcium channel blockers?
Discharge instruction after being treated for infective endocarditis
What is the need to notify all physicians' of the history of infective endocarditis before any invasive procedure?
Concerning finding of a patient in skeletal traction
What is thick, yellow drainage from the pin sites?
Staging test for a patient diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease
What is a PET scan?
Side effect of meperidine hydrochloride
What is urinary retention?
Blockage in a large blood vessel that supplies the anterior wall of the left ventricle
What is the left anterior descending coronary artery?