Nutrition
Inflammation of the pancreas
What is pancreatitis?
Bacteria or yeast that travel along a urinary catheter and cause an infection in your bladder or kidney
What is a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)?
This kind of drainage is the result of infection; it is thick and contains WBCs, tissue debris, and bacteria
What is purulent drainage?
An abnormal body posture that involves the arms and legs being held straight out, the toes being pointed downward, and the head and neck being arched backward
What is decerebrate posturing?
This type of precaution requires: a surgical mask; and possibly gloves, gown, and goggles
What is droplet precaution?
This discipline has advanced nutrition education, and their role is to provide expertise in the use of nutrition to treat disease
What is a dietitian?
Painful or difficult urination
What is dysuria?
This type of dressing is indicated for infected, deep wounds or necrotic tissue
What is a hydrogel dressing?
This part of your brain is important because it handles automatic functions like breathing, heart rate, and wakefulness
What is the brainstem?
This cycle includes: etiologic agent --> reservoir --> portal of exit --> mode of transmission --> portal of entry --> susceptible host
What is the chain of infection?
This is a complication of intravenous lipid infusion
What is hyperlipidemia?
Three processes of bladder irrigation
What are continuous bladder irrigation, intermittent bladder irrigation, and manuel bladder irrigation?
This category of edema is mild and measures about a 10-15 second skin response
What is 2+ pitting edema?
A nurse would perform these actions if his/her client suffered from this ailment: sit and face the client when speaking, avoid covering his/her mouth while speaking, encourage the client to utilize hearing devices, speak slowly and clearly to the client, minimize background noise, and ask for a sign language interpreter if necessary
What is hearing loss?
A client experiencing a deficiency in this electrolyte may exhibit the following symptoms: hyperactive deep tendon reflexes, paresthesia, and muscle tetany
What is hypomagnesemia?
Vitamin E deficiency is rare, except in this population, in whom it can lead to erythrocyte hemolysis
What are premature infants?
Three implications for inserting an indwelling catheter to an individual with a latex allergy
What are cytotoxicity, urethritis, and increased risk of urinary tract infection?
This type of drainage contains serum and red blood cells. It is thick and appears reddish; brighter drainage indicates active bleeding, whereas darker drainage indicates older bleeding/drainage
What is sanguineous drainage?
An inability to smell that may be seen with lesions of the frontal lobe and may also occur with impaired blood flow to the middle cerebral artery
What is anosmia?
This cranial nerve is assessed when a patient clenches his/her teeth while the nurse is palpating his/her mandibular muscles
What is cranial nerve V?
Patients in carbohydrate deficiency will likely have this in their urine
What are ketones?
A type of incontinence that results from nerve damage, weak pelvic muscles, or decreased physical mobility
What is urge incontinence?
When cleaning a wound, this type of solution is the most preferred for a cleansing agent
What is an isotonic solution?
This symptom of meningitis is assessed when asking a patient to lay supine and flex their head to their chest
What is the Brudzinski sign?
This type of memory is being assessed when asking the patient his/her date of birth or mother's maiden name (facts that can be verified)
What is remote memory?