What can the nurse check to assess hydration status
What is daily weights
Describe the different types of wound drainage.
What is serous, serosanguineous, sanguineous, purulent
What sign would the nurse expect to see in the skin of a person with difficulty breathing?
Bluish skin
What is dizziness, nausea, and fainting
Normal blood glucose levels.
60-100
A deficit or excess in this electrolyte can cause cardiac issues.
What is potassium
Describe the signs and symptoms of infection
What is warmth, redness, foul odor, pain at the site, purulent drainage, temperature
What would you teach a client to do to prevent pneumonia after surgery?
What is use incentive spirometer
Name a urinary analgesic and patient education pertaining to it.
What is Pyridium and urine may turn orange
What are a few of therapeutic communication techniques.
What is active listening, asking open-ended questions, using silence, making observations, reflecting patient statements, clarifying unclear information, using empathy, focusing on the patient's concerns, and incorporating appropriate touch when culturally sensitive;
Name foods high in Potassium.
Green leafy vegetables
strawberries
bananas
apricots
Describe PPE for a client on contact precautions?
What is gloves, gown
Which electrolyte helps in the prevention of osteoporosis?
What is calcium?
Education for a client taking antibiotic therapy.
Complete full course of medication even when feeling better. Use back up method of birth control
what foods put a patient at risk for heart disease?
What is high sodium foods and foods high in saturated fat.
Whats the minimum amount of output a patient should have in a 8-hour shift?
240 ml
A stoma that is normal in appearance will be:
what is beefy red.
What are known as the physiologic buffers?
What is blood buffers, respiratory system, and kidneys.
Discuss care of a patient with an indwelling foley catheter.
What is provide catheter care at least once per day and as needed, keep the catheter bag below the level of the bladder, keep catheter tubing unkinked and unclogged
For the first few months of life pediatric clients get the majority of their nutrition from...
breast milk of formula
What is the main role of the electrolyte sodium?
Maintaining fluid balance in the body.
The nurse is giving an immunization to a 3 month old client. Which injection site will the nurse choose?
What is vastus lateralis?
Describe adventitious breath sounds.
What is abnormal sounds that occur when air flows abnormally through the lung
Discuss how the nurse would assess a patient who has diarrhea.
What is assess fluid status and skin breakdown
How do we teach proper body mechanics?
What is bend at the waist and knees not at the back, keep object close, use legs to lift.