Fluids, Electrolytes, Acid-Base
The normal lab values for sodium
What is 135-145mEq/L?
Bone Marrow suppression is the most dangerous side effect of this drug
What is Chemotherapy?
Some foods high in iron.
What are liver and other organ meats, black beans, leafy green vegetables?
The disruption in the normal integrity of the skin.
What is a wound?
Some dietary sources of calcium
What are milk, yogurt, cheese, spinach, kale, soy beans, fish, calcium fortified foods (orange juice, oatmeal, breakfast cereal)?
This form of diabetes is seen only during pregnancy.
What is gestational diabetes?
Barrel chest
The chest shape of a patient with long-term COPD
The three phases of perioperative
What are the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases?
Increase in vascular volume
What is Hypervolemia?
Lab value to monitor if patient has thrombocytopenia
What is a platelet count?
The precautions initiated when platelet count is less than 20,000/mm3
What are bleeding precautions?
Nutrient to promote wound healing
What is protein?
Medical term for for a "dowager's hump"
What is kyphosis?
I am the only treatment for Type I diabetes
What is Insulin?
Incentive spirometer
What tool would you give your patient to increase lung expansion to reduce risk of pnemonia?
Information included in the preoperative assessment
What is: Health history and physical exam, medications and allergies, nutritional, fluid status, dentition, drug or alcohol use, respiratory and cardiovascular status, hepatic function, renal function?
The normal lab values for Potassium
What is 3.5-5mEq/L?
The nurse can prevent complications of leukopenia by doing what
What is frequent handwashing?
Primary organ of the immune system
What is the spleen?
Fibrous tissue that forms when normal tissue is injured, forms as body heals itself.
What is scar tissue?
A condition causing brittle bones and decreased bone density
What is osteoporosis?
Adverse effect of Diabetes
What is (name one of these): fatigue, recurrent infections, prolonged wound healing, retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy?
A nursing intervention used in working with a patient strongly suspected of having an infectious respiratory disease
What is institute appropriate isolation precautions?
Medications that increase bleeding risk during and after surgery.
What are anticoagulants?
The normal lab values for PaCO2
What is 35 - 45mm Hg?
This is the most common type of cancer in men and the second leading cause of death in men.
What is prostate cancer?
The normal lab value for hemoglobin
What is 12-18?
Tissue softened by prolonged wetting or soaking.
What is Maceration?
____________ and ____________ are often used to help treat bone loss.
What is calcium and vitamin D?
These three findings on assessment are known as the 3 P's and are seen with diabetes
What is polydipsia, polyuria, & polyphagia?
Pursed-lip breathing
What is the type of breathing excercises would you teach your COPD patient?
Document explaining the procedure, benefits, risks, and complications of surgery.
What is informed consent?
The normal lab value for Calcium
What is 4.2-5.25mEq/L?
This is a malignant tumor that affects pigments of the skin
What is melanoma?
Clinical manifestations of anaphylaxis
What are stridor, wheezing, dyspnea, hypotension, tachycardia, erythema, laryngeal edema?
Stage of wound healing in with rebuilding and growth occur.
What is proliferative?
Progressive articular cartilage degradation
What is osteoarthritis?
I am an rapid acting insulin and I should be taken 0-15 minutes prior to a meal.
What is Lispro (humalog)?
An acute viral infection of the respiratory tract caused by different viral strains.Symptoms include myalgia, fever, cough.
What is influenza?
Preoperative nursing interventions
What is educate patient on deep breathing, coughing, and incentive spirometry after surgery?
Plays an important role in the transmission of electrical impulses
What is potassium?
This is the most common malignant tumor and is associated with UV radiation and smoking?
What is carcinoma?
The primary nursing assessment for a patient in Sickle cell crisis?
What is a pain assessment?
Failure of a wound to close properly or due to surgical incision separation.
What is wound dehiscense?
Peripheral vascular disease is the cause for most of these type of amputations
What is lower extremity amputations?
This lab test reflects glucose levels over a period of 3-4 months.
What is Hgb A1c?
Disease symptoms include a cough that doesn’t go away, hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite.
What is tuberculosis?
The primary goal in withholding food before surgery
What is prevent aspiration?
Regulation of fluid output occurs through which four organs
What is the Kidneys, Lungs, Skin, Intestines?
The type of IV line needed to safely administer vesicant drugs such as chemotherapy.
What is a central line?
The presence of these WBCs indicates severe infection
What are immature neutrophils?
Most relevant immunization to ask about with impaired skin/tissue integrity?
What is tetanus?
Osteoporosis can be prevented through ___________ and ______________
What is a healthy diet and exercise?
Diaphoresis, dizziness, confusion, are some behaviors of this condition.
What is hypoglycemia?
The primary cause for a COPD exacerbation
What is infection?
Some of the possible intraoperative complications
What are anesthesia awareness, nausea, vomiting, anaphylaxis, hypoxia, respiratory complications, malignant hyperthermia, infection
Main source of water balance in the body
What is Sodium?
Some risk factors for this type of cancer is chlamydia and long term use of birth control pills
What is cervical cancer?
Intervention/treatment for pernicious anemia.
What are B12 injections?
Smoking, decreased hemoglobin level, and underlying cardiopulmonary conditions will decrease this.
What is tissue oxygenation?
This occurs when pressure within one or more muscle compartments compromises circulation resulting in an ischemia-edema cycle
What is compartment syndrome?
This body shape increases one's risk for the development of type 2 diabetes
What is apple shape or central/trunk obesity?
Signs of this emergency condition include sudden chest pain that worsens with breathing, apprehension, tachypnea, dyspnea
What is pulmonary embolism?
Reduces risks of wrong site surgery or incorrect procedure performed on wrong patient
What is a surgical time-out?
Decreasing in vascular volume
What is Hypovolemia?
A group of malignant disorders affecting the blood and blood-forming tissues
What is leukemia?
Type of IV system developed to reduce the risk of blood-borne pathogen exposure to healthcare professionals
What is a needless system?
Caused by intense and/or prolonged pressure resulting in tissue ischemia and injury
What is a pressure ulcer?
Surgical removal of diseased joint and replacement with artificial components
What is arthroplasty?
I am a mixture of intermediate insulin and long acting insulin in the same bottle.
What is 70/30 insulin?
The expectoration of blood from some part of the respiratory tract
What is hemoptysis?
Responsible for explaining surgical procedure to the patient
Who is the physician/surgeon?
Abnormally low Potassium level
What is hypokalemia?
The nurse needs to educate their patient receiving Chemotherapy about what type of diet
What is High protein, high calorie?
Blood tests that measure how long a patient's blood takes to clot
What is PT, INR, and APTT?
Wound drainage that is clear and watery, composed mainly of plasma.
What is serous drainage?
This occurs when fat globules from bone marrow are released into the vasculature and travel to small blood vessels.
What is a fat embolism?
The peak affect of this insulin is 4-12 hours.
What is intermediate acting insulin (NPH, Humulin N, Novolin N)?
A chronic inflammatory respiratory disease affecting the airways is characterized by coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath and tachypnea.
What is asthma?
Initial action of the nurse during the postoperative period.
What is assess the patient's vital signs?
Normal value for pH
What is 7.35 - 7.45?
Nursing interventions for patient's under neutropenic precautions.
What is remove plants from the room, have the client wear a mask when leaving the room, have client-specific equipment remain in the room, eliminate raw foods form the client's diet?
What 2 laboratory tests are used to help assess the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy
What is CD4 count and viral load?
New connective tissue, pink-red in color, forms on the surface of a wound as the wound heals.
What is granulation tissue?
This is the medication of choice for managing osteoarthritis
What is Acetaminophen?
The medication you draw up first when combining NPH Regular insulin in the same syringe.
What is Regular insulin (clear to cloudy)?
An age related change that might cause an elderly person to become SOB with exertion (name one, there are several)
What is loss of lung elasticity, enlargement of bronchioles, decrease in functioning alveoli, resp muscles atrophy, rib cage is more rigid, diaphragm flattens?
Common medication given in postoperative period to treat nausea and/or vomiting.
What is Ondansetron (Zofran)?
The normal lab value for Bicarbonate
What is 22-26mEq/L?
Unusual bleeding/discharge, change in bowel or bladder habits, and obvious change in moles are just a few of these
What are the 7 warning signs of cancer?
Symptoms include enlarged lymph nodes, decreased production of RBC's, thrombocytopenia, and a severe increase in WBC's with a bone marrow aspiration showing abnormal lymphocytes present.
What is Acute Leukemia?
A localized area of tissue necrosis.
What is Eschar?
This image provides information about bone density without exposing the client to radiation
What is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?
I am the only insulin that can be given IV.
What is Regular?
Airway inflammation and edema leading to alveolar collapse and increased risk for hypoxia
What is atelectasis?
This drug is administered if opioids induce excessive sedation and reduced respiratory rate.
What is Nalaxone (Narcan)?