Members of the Healthcare Team
I focus on fine motor skills and improving a client's ability to perform ADL's.
Occupational Therapy
Working with spoken words vs written words.
Interpreter vs. Translator
Polyuria: Excessive peeing >2500 ml/day
Anuria: No urine production
I am a self screening tool for males and should start at age 15.
Testicular Self Exam
I am two lab values commonly looked at to determine Kidney Function.
BUN and Creatinine
Inpatient Rehab Facility
Define
Closed Awareness
Mutual Pretense
Open Awareness
Closed - patient not aware of impending death
Mutual - aware of dx but do not discuss
Open - openly discuss end of life
I am an alternative to indwelling catheters. I decrease the risk of UTI's and should be used only in patients without retention or obstructions.
External Catheter
Describes physical/emotional/behavioral changes some women experience before their menstrual cycle.
Premenstrual Syndrome
These are often elevated when a patient has some type of infection.
WBC's.
This insurance provides healthcare for adults 65 years of age or older.
Medicare
Your patient still has a pulse and is breathing on a ventilator however, they have determined he/she has no reflexes, a flat EEG and has irreversible damage to the cerebral cortex. What is this called?
Cerebral Death (Brain Death)
I am unable to empty my bladder. My suprapubic area is distended and my bladder is firm. What is going on?
Urinary Retention
Your patient is a 41 year old woman presenting with hot flashes, anxiety and decreased breast size. What could she be transitiong to?
Menopause
This test must be ordered to obtain Liver Enzymes.
(Complete Metabolic Panel) CMP
A school nurse, correctional Nurse and a hospice nurse are all examples of what kind of Nursing?
Community Based Nursing
The two types of care offered to end of life patients to provide relief and prevention from suffering.
Hospice
Palliative
I am the amount of urine remaining in the bladder after voiding.
Post Void Residual (PVR)
The best time to perform a self screening breast exam.
3-5 days after period start.
These two lab levels are ordered when you suspect your patient may be bleeding.
Hemoglobin and Hematocrit
This prevention method focuses on early detection and prevention of complications and disabilities by prompt intervention.
Secondary Prevention
Name the 5 Stages of Grief.
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Your patient pees when he laughs, coughs or sneezes. What does he/she suffer from?
Stress Urinary incontinence
A type of primary prevention for cervical cancer.
The HPV vaccine.
You will see this in my blood stream when the heart muscle is dying or under severe stress.
Troponin