Injection gauges and needle lengths
True or false: The larger the gauge, the smaller the needle?
TRUE
This type of medication needs to be placed beneath the tongue for absorption?
Sublingual
A patient who has returned from surgery is thirsty, what two things should the nurse do before giving them something to drink?
Check for active bowel sounds in all four quadrants
Assess for swallowing/gag reflex
Propping a patients limbs up will help prevent this?
Edema
This is the second stage of the three stages of wound healing?
Proliferation
3rd to 4th day and lasts 2-3 weeks. Beginning to heal
a 5/8 inch needle is appropriate for which type of injection?
Subcutaneous
This type of medication is placed between the teeth and cheek for absorption?
Buccal
Elective
True or false? To help prevent pneumonia for an immobilized patient, we should frequently give them opioid analgesics to help with pain?
FALSE
This will LOWER their oxygenation
True or False: Adding carbohydrates will promote wound healing?
FALSE
When giving a patient an IM injection into a large muscle, you should select this gauge needle?
21 Gauge
TB skin testing is giving this route?
INTRADERMAL
Emergency
Patients who are very weak, morbidly obese, amputee, paraplegic or casts on each leg should be transferred using this device?
Mechanical Lift
The spontaneous opening of an incision is called?
Dehiscence
Intradermal needles use what size needles?
1/2 to 1 inch
Pull the pinna down and back
A patient having surgery to remove a painful cancerous tumor is having what type of surgery?
Palliative
True or false? We should remain quiet and not talk around a comatose patient?
FALSE
They can probably hear everything
Protrusion of an internal organ through an incision is called?
Evisceration
If the nurse is preparing a medication with a 19-23 gauge, 1-3 inches long injection, what body part would be appropriate to give this?
MUSCLE
This is the most appropriate site for an IM injection to a pediatric patient?
Vastus Lateralis
Two things the nurse can put on a patient during surgery to prevent blood clots?
1. TED hose
2. Sequential pneumatic compression boots
If a patient has recovered from a loss of function to their body, this device is the best to begin to start walking again?
Walker
An abnormal passage between two organs or an internal organ and the body surface?
Fistula