Tissue Integrity/ Wound Mnagement
Negative pressure therapy for wound healing.
What is a Wound VAC?
Priority care for a patient with hip fracture.
What is Immobilize and prevent complications (DVT, pneumonia)?
Acute, fluctuating disturbance in attention and awareness.
What is Delirium?
This medication is the preferred pharmacologic treatment when lifestyle changes fail in gestational diabetes because it does not cross the placenta as easily as oral agents.
What is insulin (usually NPH or insulin therapy)?
Resting tremor and shuffling gait are signs of this disease.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Repositioning every 2 hours, barrier creams, and nutrition support are interventions to prevent this condition.
What are Pressure injuries?
Loss of bone density increases fracture risk.
What is Osteoporosis?
Nursing priority when teaching families about Alzheimer’s medications.
What is They slow progression but do not cure the disease?
2 part question: This class of diabetes medication (ex: glipizide, glyburide) lowers blood glucose by stimulating this organ to release more insulin.
Sulfonylureas (anti-diabetics)
Pancreas (beta cells)
Benzodiazepine used short-term for acute anxiety but causes sedation and dependence risk.
What is Lorazepam / Ativan
(any benzodiazepine)?
Key assessment findings to document for wound evaluation.
What are Size, depth, drainage, odor, tissue type, pain?
Autoimmune disease causing joint deformity and systemic inflammation.
What is Rheumatoid arthritis?
This anticholinergic reduces tremors but is contraindicated in older adults due to confusion risk.
What is Benztropine?
This oral drug decreases hepatic glucose production.
What is Metformin?
This anxiety disorder is treated with SSRIs and features constant worry lasting at least 6 months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
First nursing intervention when evisceration occurs.
What is Cover with sterile saline-soaked gauze and notify surgeon immediately?
This drug reduces uric acid levels in gout.
What is Allopurinol?
This drug class inhibits dopamine breakdown in the brain.
What are MAO-B inhibitors (Selegiline)
This term describes the reduced ability of body cells to respond to insulin, a hallmark of Type 2 diabetes.
What is insulin resistance?
This first-generation antipsychotic is used to treat schizophrenia but carries risk of EPS.
What is Haloperidol?
Priority nursing action when assessing a wound with purulent drainage.
What is Obtain culture before antibiotics?
Degenerative joint disease causing stiffness and pain.
What is Osteoarthritis?
This drug class prevents breakdown of acetylcholine in the brain.
What are Cholinesterase inhibitors?
This circulating protein, measured in g/dL, is decreased in anemia and is responsible for carrying oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
This CNS stimulant is commonly prescribed for ADHD.
What is Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine? (Adderall)