pulse & BP
Assessment
Perfusion
Isolation
Managing Care
100
What is Cardiac Output
What is The amount of blood pumped per minute ( CO=SVxHR)
100
Where will the nurse assess for the point of maiximal impulse?
What is 5th intercostals at the left midclavicular line
100
Cubbing of the nails could indicate
What is Decreased perfusion
100
This practice includes frequent hand washing, wearing gloves, and avoiding contact with all bodily fluids.
What are standard precautions (or universal precautions)?
100
This term is defined by the WHO as "a state of complete physical, metal, and social well-being and not merely the absense of disease and infirmity".
What is health?
200
Irregular pattern of heart beats is called :
Dysrhythmias
200
Peripheral pulses are found by:
What is bilaterally palpating
200
process by which oxygenated capillary blood passes through body tissues
What is perfusion?
200
This precaution indicates that pathogen-containing droplets may be expelled into the air.
What are droplet precautions?
200
Cost-containment strategies, health promotion, and improved efficiency of care work toward what tenet of care management?
What is cost-effective care?
300
A patient’s blood pressure is 130/90 when visiting a clinic. What should the nurse recommend to the patient?
What is Follow up measurements of blood pressure
300
patient complains of severe abdominal pain. When assessing the vital signs, the nurse would not be surprised to find what assessment?
What is An increase in HR
300
The nurse detects a continuous, musical sound heard on expiration. This sound is identified to be :
What is Wheezes
300
A patient on enteric precautions more than likely has tested positive for this
What is clostridium difficile (c. diff)?
300
This cyclic change in staffing increases nurse wages and requires nurses to change their approach to care.
What are nursing shortages?
400
When assessing a temperature rectally, the nurse would use extreme care when inserting the thermometer to prevent which of the following? ( vital signs)
What is Decrease heart rate because of stimulation to the vagus nerve
400
Check pulse ( has to be >60)What nursing action is acceptable prior to administering Digoxin?
What is Check pulse ( has to be >60)
400
What mask provides the highest concentration of oxygen to a spontaneously breathing patient?
What is Nonrebreather mask
400
A patient being actively treated for tuberculosis should have these precautions in place.
What are airborne precautions?
400
This organization specifies that patients have a right to health care.
What is the Joint Commission?
500
to assess the effectiveness of a vasodilator administered to a client, what should the nurse assess?
What is Bood pressure, vasodilators lower blood pressure
500
The nurse is performing her admission assessment on a patient. When grading arterial pulses, a 1+ pulse indicates
What is Thready pulse, not easily felt
500
What is are caring for a patient admitted with heart failure. The patient's vital signs are: BP 120/60, HR 64, R 18, T 97.6°F. You auscultate coarse crackles bilaterally and palpate 3+ edema to the lower extremities. Which of the following is the priority nursing diagnosis for this patient?
Excessive fluid volume
500
This set of precautions are designed to protect a patient with a severely weakened immune system (often due to chemotherapy) from contracting an infection.
What are neutropenic precautions?
500
This form of public insurance covers citizens with disabilities or that are 65 years old or greater.
What is Medicare?
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