UTI
These infections result from a care of a client that has been in a health care facility.
What is a health care associated UTI's or CAUTI?
This intervention is done for a patient following a craniotomy.
What is seizure precautions?
The nurse should weigh the client prior to and following this in order to determine the amount of fluid losses/gains.
What is Dialysis?
This is a sensory warning that a seizure is imminent.
What is an Aura?
A nursing intervention for dysphagia and left sided weakness to prevents aspiration following a stroke.
What is adding thickener to fluids?
Lower back/abdominal pain, urinary frequency, Dysuria, bladder spasms, hematuria, pyuria, and urethral discharge are symptoms of ____________.
What are findings for a Adult with a UTI?
The nursing intervention of elevating the head of the bed promotes venous drainage from the brain.
What is Increased Intracranial Pressure?
Nausea and vomiting is a manifestation of a complication of peritoneal dialysis.
What is Peritonitis?
This characterizes the postictal phase of a tonic-clonic seizure.
What is sleepy and has amnesia?
A client with this type of stroke will has some degree of aphasia and will require communication-focused nursing interventions and speech therapy
What is a left hemispheric stroke?
Confusion, incontinence, and loss of appetite are unique to these people.
What are findings for elderly clients with UTI's?
High urine output of 650 mL/hr following a head injury could be from this.
What is diabetes insipidous?
This is the finding that would be prioritized for caring for a patient with peritoneal dialysis.
What is Purulent, cloudy dialysate ?
This type of seizure lasts less than 10 seconds and is typically in pediatrics.
What is absence seizure?
This type of stroke can cause hemianopsia and could cause issues with eating such as not seeing food on one side of their tray.
What is a right sided stroke?
Diabetes, Females, Older Adults, Bladder distention, and Urinary Catheters can be risk factors for this.
What are Risk Factors for UTI's?
This is an early manifestation of increased intracranial pressure.
What is vision changes?
The client's urine output is less than 400 mL per 24 hours.
What is the oliguric phase of acute kidney injury?
This test is used to determine seizure activity.
What is an EEG?
This client has chronic atrial fibrillation so their risk of _____________ is increased.
What is Ischemic embolic stroke?
This is a result of untreated UTI or history of UTI
What is pyelonephritis?
This is a precipitating factor in both tension and cluster headaches.
What is Stress?
The nurse feels the thrill and auscultates for the bruit.
What is assessing an AV graft patency?
This medical emergency is characterized by repeated seizure activity within a 30-min time frame or a single prolonged seizure lasting more than 5 min.
What is Status Epilepticus?
This acronym was developed to remember manifestations of a stroke.
What is FAST?