Renal
Flank pain, tenderness, chills, fever, malaise
What are signs of acute pyelonephritis?
This should not touch the floor or bed with traction
What is the weight?
This disorder's symptoms include fatigue, muscle pain, mood swings, sleep disturbances, headaches, and depression
What is fibromyalgia?
Treatment for mastitis will include these interventions.
What are pump the affected breast, antibiotics, warm soaks, pain medications, and avoiding occlusive breast pads?
A nurse does this to check for renal stones or fragments of stones after a lithotripsy.
What is strain urine?
Cloudy output, abdominal rigidity and abdominal distention when doing peritoneal dialysis.
What is peritonitis?
Used on the legs when turning a patient in bed who has a post op hip replacement
What is an abductor pillow?
The most tell-tale symptom of Lupus.
What is a butterfly rash?
Yearly exams at the gynecologist for the younger adult female with no significant history.
What are a breast exam and pelvic exam?
Treatment for this type of STD includes curative goals.
What is bacterial STD such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphillis?
Labs seen in renal patients
What are high BUN/Creat, high K+, anemia, high phos, high Mg, low Ca, Low Na+?
A cause and/or complication of an amputation.
What is osteomyelitis?
Symptoms experienced with rheumatoid arthritis.
What are joint stiffness (especially in the AM) and inflamed joints.
Undescended testes.
What is cryptochidism?
Symptoms of internal bleeding in post op patient.
What is decreased LOC, hypotension, tachycardia, and low urine output?
Nursing assessment with renal patient
What are daily weight, urine output, po/fluid intake possible fluid restriction, labs, vital signs?
RICES
What is rest, ice, compression, elevation and stabilization?
Remodeling of the bones is seen in this disorder
What is Paget's disease?
Menstrual bleeding for more than 7 days
What is menorrhagia?
Assessment which should be done to an extremity after any type of surgery.
What is neuro check aka CMS?
The main functions of the kidney.
What are filtering by-products, electrolyte and fluid balance, acid-base balance, and assist in erythropoetin production?
Used after knee and hip replacements to improve range of motion in the affected joint.
What is the Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) machine?
The three stages of Lyme's Disease have these symptoms
What is bullseye rash, red macules and flu-like symptoms in early stage; cardiac and neuro symptoms in mid-stage; and arthritis and MS problems in the later stage?
Treatment for prostatitis includes these.
What is finish antibiotics, avoid prolonged sitting, avoid caffeine, drain the prostate gland?
Common symptoms found in genital herpes?
What are painful genital vesicles, lesions, and ulcers, swollen inguinal lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms.