Sickle Cell
This is the initial location of pain in an infant sickle cell disease.
What are the hands and feet?
This is a condition in which you lack enough healthy red blood cells (RBCs) to carry adequate oxygen to your body's tissues.
What is anemia?
Symptoms include enlarged lymph nodes, decreased production of RBC's, thrombocytopenia, and a severe increase in WBC's with a bone marrow aspiration showing abnormal lymphocytes present.
What is acute leukemia?
The average span of a red blood cell (RBC).
What is 120 days?
List the top three nursing interventions for sickle cell crisis.
What are manage symptoms, prevent crises, and promote patient well-being?
This is the population most at risk for sickle cell anemia.
What are African Americans?
This condition is associated with the destruction of red blood cells (RBCs).
What is hemolytic anemia?
Petechiae and ecchymoses are seen in this disease.
What is hemophilia?
A serum blood test in which the different kinds of white blood cells are counted and reported as percentages of the total examined or absolute (actual number) is referred to as this.
What is a differential?
List the top three nursing interventions for managing a patient with thalassemia.
What are monitoring blood levels, preventing complications, and educating patients?
This condition is often caused by an infection and treated with antibiotics. These symptoms may include difficulty breathing, fever, cough, and chest pain.
What is acute chest syndrome?
This type of anemia is due to inadequate dietary intake. The two most common symptoms are pallor and glossitis (inflammation of the tongue).
What is iron-deficiency anemia?
Maintaining fluid intake of 3 to 4 L/day to dilute calcium load is a nursing intervention indicated in this neoplastic hematological disease.
What is multiple myeloma?
The lab value most indicative of iron deficiency anemia.
What is a hemoglobin of 8g/dL?
State the category of interventional care that would be rendered to a leukemia patient when providing pain management strategies, managing nausea and vomiting with medications and dietary modifications, protecting skin from infections and rashes, promoting good oral hygiene, and providing emotional support and counseling.
What is supportive care?
List these three situations that a sickle cell client should avoid.
What are high altitudes, extreme temperatures (cold), and dehydration?
The activity of the bone marrow is depressed in this type rare and life-threatening disorder, which can be satisfactorily treated in about 90% of cases.
What is aplastic anemia?
Preventing trauma and falling is considered the most important nursing intervention to prevent hemorrhage in patients with this disease.
What is thrombocytopenia?
The priority nursing diagnosis for a patient with a diagnosis of agranulocytosis and a neutrophil count of 10% is this...
What is risk for infection?
List the top three nursing interventions for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).
What are patient education, risk reduction, and anticoagulation therapy?
This situation is the most common, is severe, and is reported to have painful episodes. Additionally, it is considered the clinical hallmark of Sickle cell disease.
What is a vaso-occlusive crisis?
In pernicious anemia, this factor is_____(missing), resulting in this___ (vitamin) to not be absorbed.
What is intrinsic factor and vitamin B12?
Hallucinations, reddish brown urine, skin reddening, and seizures are a few of the many symptoms a patient may experience with this acute exacerbation.
What is porphyri?
Name the blood component that comprises 3% of the normal blood value.
What are eosinophils?
List three priority NANDAs for bone marrow transplant patient(s).
What are at risk for infection, at risk for bleeding, and at risk for electrolyte imbalances?