Members of the Healthcare Team
You just started at a new facility and have been notified that you will be on a Team Nursing facility/unit. What does this mean?
Delivery of care provided by a team to a group of clients.
RN, LVN, UAP
RN usually coordinates nursing care.
The process in which the nurse places a body in a supine position, closes eyelids and mouth, bathes the body, removes jewelry and prepares for family viewing.
Postmortem Care
Your patient pees when he laughs, coughs or sneezes. What does he/she suffer from?
Stress Urinary incontinence
I am a self screening tool for males and should start at age 15.
Testicular Self Exam
I am a lab values commonly looked at to determine Kidney Function.
If i am high it usually means my person is dehydrated.
BUN
Your patient has suffered a stroke is significantly weaker from admission. Your patient is able to sit upright in a chair, stand and take a few steps. What facility should this patient be referred to?
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
I am the amount of urine remaining in the bladder after voiding.
Post Void Residual (PVR)
I am an RN and am running behind on charting, my patient in room 5 needs to be taught how to use an incentive spirometer for her pneumonia. I can't remember if I'm allowed to delegate this to the CNA. Can I?
NO
Education cannot be delegated.
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)
Your patient does not remember the name of the procedure he has but he remembers the doctor described it
He states he has a hole where the bladder wall is connected to abdominal wall via a stoma.
What is this called?
Vesicostomy
Your patient is a 41 year old woman presenting with hot flashes, anxiety and decreased breast size. What could she be transitiong to?
Menopause
I am the most common type of urinary diversion
A Segment of the ilium is removed and used as a pouch; one end is used to create a stoma
Bladder removed
Ileal Conduit
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 unable to empty my bladder. My suprapubic area is distended and my bladder is firm. What is going on?
Urinary Retention
The best time to perform a self screening breast exam.
3-5 days after period start.
Your patient comes in for her annual exam, upon your assessment you ask her about her last menstrual cycle she is nursing school so she uses medical terms and states she suffers from Dysmenorrhea and Menorrhagia.
What does she mean?
Dysmenorrhea = a painful menstruation
Menorrhagia = menstrual bleeding >7 days or abnormally heavy bleeding
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
Define
Hematuria
Proteinuria
Pyuria
Polyuria
Oliguria
Anuria
Dysuria
Nocturia
Enuresis
Hematuria: RBCs in urine ▪
Proteinuria: Protein in the urine ▪
Pyuria: WBCs (pus) in urine ▪
Polyuria: >2500ml/day ▪
Oliguria: <500ml/day or 30ml/hr ▪
Anuria: no urine production
Dysuria : Painful urination
Nocturia: >2 voids at night
Enuresis: involuntary incontinence during sleep
A type of primary prevention for cervical cancer.
The HPV vaccine.
This insurance provides healthcare for adults 65 years of age or older.
Medicare