Nutrition
This organ helps metabolize sugar through insulin
What is the pancreas?
Contractions that occur throughout the digestive system that move food along a pathway to be digested
What is peristalsis?
Scale used to determine risk toward tissue integrity
What is the Braden scale?
A reduction in or absence of stimuli to one or more of the five senses
What is sensory deprivation?
BMI of 18.5-24.9
What is normal BMI range?
This diet contains broth, gelatin, and water
What is a clear liquid diet?
Pain or discomfort with urination
What is dysuria?
The outermost layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
This is the inability to see objects faraway
What is myopia?
This test uses a tuning fork that goes on the top of the head to test your hearing
What is the Webers test?
What is parenteral nutrition?
Coughing, sneezing, laughing, or physical activity that increases pressure on the bladder, resulting in urine leakage
What is stress incontinence?
Localized, non-blanchable, deep red, maroon, or purple discoloration
What is deep tissue pressure injury?
What chart is used to test visual acuity?
What is the Snellen chart?
This type of dressing is used in dry wounds for debridement of necrotized tissue and eschar
What is hydrogel?
This dietary factor helps to relieve constipation
What is fiber?
Spironolactone helps retain potassium
What is a potassium-sparing diuretic?
Process of surgically removing dead tissue and debris
What is surgical debridement?
This cranial nerve function is motor to muscle of jaw and sensory to face
What is cranial nerve number 5?
Injection of contrast media for viewing of ducts, renal pelvis, ureters, bladder, urethra
What is intravenous pyelogram?
Aspiration causing symptoms such as coughing or trouble breathing
What is overt aspiration?
Condition in which small sacs or pouches form in the colon
What is diverticulosis?
There is full thickness skin lost with visible adipose tissue
What is stage 3 pressure injury?
This is the instrument used to examine the structures of the eye
What is a slit lamp?
A chronic disease that causes inflammation in the GI tract but commonly affects the small intestine
What is Crohn's disease?