CNS
This stage of Alzheimer's Disease has decreased sense of smell.
Patient arrives to the ED with NEW slurred speech and generalized weakness. Family member stating they are not acting normal and they don't smell alcohol on their breath. What does the RN need to check before you call a code stroke?
Blood glucose
Bell's Palsy. Will still do a CT to r/o stroke.
Who's job is it to make sure the consent is signed and the site is marked for surgery?
Perioperative Nurse
The RN can delegate the following tasks to the UAP (unlicensed assistive personnel) before surgery.
Vital signs, performing hygiene, CHG bath, ambulating patient to bathroom, change the patient into a hospital gown. The UAP cannot administer meds or do an assessment. The RN needs to make sure these tasks are done.
What are the 3 B's to assess and potentially correct in autonomic dysreflexia?
Bowel, Bladder, and breakdown of the skin.
The patient has a confirmed CT with a hemorrhagic stroke, what can the ED nurse prepare to do?
Prepare the pt to go to the OR
Who answers clarifying questions about the surgery?
The surgeon
For a patient with Parkinson's Disease, what does their levodopa medicine help with?
Rigid Muscles
Describe an Atonic seizure
Blood clots in the heart have traveled to the brain. Blood clots may have formed from a heart condition called A-fib. ECHO can look at heart to see if blood clots are present.
What does the GCS assess?
Best Eye opening, motor response, and verbal response.
Sudden chest pain, along with dyspnea and fast heart rate following surgery could be s/s of what?
Pulmonary Embolism
What is the RN's main concern once someone is diagnosed with "brain death"?
To maintain tissue perfusion for possible organ donation.
Beta blockers are preventative therapies for migraines and should be taken daily even when the client feels well. True or false.
True
TIME- When their last known well was- needs to be within 3 hours.
If Guillain-Barre syndrom reaches the diaphram, what can happen to the patient?
What is general anesthesia?
Inhalation and IV administration.
Along with verifying allergies, what must we also clarify that the pt isn't allergic to when administering contrast dye?
Shellfish or Iodine
Mask-like facial features and pill-rolling tremors resting in upper extremities are common in this disease
Parkinson's Disease
Check it for glucose- could be cerebral spinal fluid.
Aspiration
What do you do if eviceration happens?!
Apply warm, moist, sterile normal saline dressing and call the doctor.
You can push your father's PCA button if he is sleeping, right?
NO! Only the patient can push their own PCA, button.