Musculoskeletal
This is the stage of bone healing where it is safe to remove the cast.
What is the ossification stage?
This is the priority action when a patient with a + BEFAST presents to the ER.
What is a head CT with no contrast?
What is the oliguric phase?
A patient experiencing lethargy, weight gain, and constipation likely suffers from this thyroid condition.
What is hypothyroidism?
This is the fluid of choice for burns.
This is the priority nursing intervention for compartment syndrome.
What is elevating the extremity at the level of the heart?
This disorder affects the upper and lower motor neurons without causing intellectual impairment.
What is ALS?
This is the most common cause of post-renal AKI.
What are kidney stones?
These are the 3 components of a diagnosis for diabetic ketoacidosis.
What are hyperglycemia >250, +ketones, and metabolic acidosis?
This assessment tool looks at sensory/perception, moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, and friction/shear to determine a patient's risk of pressure injuries.
What is the Braden Scale?
A patient whose joints hurt more after activity is suffering from this type of arthritis.
What is osteoarthritis?
A patient experiencing dyspnea, dysphagia, muscle weakness, and tachycardia is suffering from this complication of myasthenia gravis.
What is myasthenic crisis?
A patient with this condition will present with a small amount of cola colored urine as well as edema of the face and hands.
What is acute nephritic syndrome?
A patient exhibiting confusion, hunger, and kussmaul breathing is experiencing this type of blood sugar.
What is hyperglycemia?
These two types of burns are painless.
What are third and fourth degree burns?
This is the priority intervention for a patient with an open fracture.
What is antibiotics?
A patient who does not open their eyes, produces occasional groaning sounds, and abnormally flexes their arms and internally rotates their legs has a GCS score of this number.
What is 6?
What is costovertebral angle pain?
This is the rule of 15 for treating hypoglycemia.
What is give 15 g glucose and recheck blood sugar in 15 minutes (3 times)?
A 125 lb patient with second degree thermal burns on their entire left leg, their anterior torso (excluding the genitals), and their entire left arm will will have their IV pump set to this rate within the first 8 hours of burn treatment.
What is 320 mL/hr?
A patient postop hip replacement surgery presenting with confusion, difficulty breathing, and petechiae covering their chest is suffering from this complication.
What is fat embolism syndrome?
Besides having the worse headache of their life, a nurse should expect their patient with a subarachnoid hemorrhage to report these three symptoms.
What are vomiting, nuchal rigidity, and photophobia?
These are the 5 main components of the diet recommended for patients with chronic kidney disease.
What is low fluids, low sodium, low potassium, low phosphorus, and high calcium?
This is why patients with Addison disease often experience hyponatremia.
What is aldosterone deficiency?
After a 2 hour ambulance ride, a 180 lb patient who suffered third degree thermal burns to the face, chest, and the front of both arms will require an IV pump set to this rate in the first half of fluid resuscitation treatment.
What is 307 mL/hr?