Final 1
Race at the highest risk of inheriting sickle cell disease
What is African American?
Electrolyte that most affects cardiac rhythm
What is potassium?
Passage of liquid, foul-smelling fecal material in the absence of formed stool
What is a fecal impaction?
Malabsorption of gluten
What is celiac disease?
The largest lymphoid organ in the body
What is the spleen?
The ion that cannot be regulated properly in clients with cystic fibrosis
What is chloride?
Measurement used to determine whether cachexia has worsened
What is weight?
Underlying pathophysiology in Diabetes Type II
What is insulin resistance?
Location to auscultate for heart sounds on a pediatric client
What is at the left nipple?
Nonpharmacologic nursing strategy to help the family ambulate a child for the first time after surgery
What is splinting with a pillow?
Besides the respiratory system, this system would be critical for the nurse to assess in a client recently diagnosed with cystic fibrosis
What is the GI system.
Pathophysiologic cause for DKA
What is insulin deficiency?
A student is having trouble understanding conversations in a crowded hallway, the nurse should
What is have the child tested for hearing loss?
Diagnostic test the healthcare team might use to determine the full extent of an abuse victim's injuries if the victim complains of abdominal pain
What is an ultrasound?
A 3 day post-op appendectomy patient has hypercalcemia. Interventionally the nurse should
What is ambulate the patient?
Urinary retention in infants is usually related to
What are structural defects and post surgical complications?
Restrictive, Hypertrophic, Dilated and Arrythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
What are types of cardiomyopathy?
Correct response to the patient who asks why he is still taking asthma medication when he hasn't had an attack in over a year
What is, "The medication is still needed to decrease inflammation in your airways and help prevent an attack."?
A client complaining of mouth soreness had gastric bypass surgery 1 year ago. During the assessment, the nurse notes the client's tongue is beefy, red, and smooth and the client's skin appears yellowish. The nurse will also need to evaluate this to help diagnose this client
What are Vitamin B12 Levels?
Reason a 15 y/o with cystic fibrosis has not started her menses
What are nutritional problems related to the disease process?
Appropriate response when the client refuses to accept a diagnosis of Diabetes stating he eats all the time and doesn't gain weight
What is, "You are eating large quantities because your condition makes it difficult for your body to obtain energy from the foods taken in."?
The clinical manifestations the nurse anticipates when assessing a 9-month-old client diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy (CP)
What are muscle instability and hypotonia?
Action taken by the nurse when the parents of an infant report that the baby is often withdrawn and lethargic and does not eat or sleep well and the nurse notes that the child is underweight and small for its age.
What is, observe interactions between the infant and the parents?
The altered aspect of development when a 20 month cannot stand alone
What is motor?
A child comes to the clinic with several bee stings. The clinical signs that the child needs an injection of epinephrine
What are cool and clammy skin, facial swelling, and extreme anxiety and agitation?