Nutrition
2,600 to 2,400 calories a day
What is the average amount of calories an active adult should consume?
Coughing, sneezing, laughing, or physical activity that induces urine leakage.
What is stress incontinence?
The layer of skin that is the first defense barrier.
What is the epidermis?
Poor nutrition, upper respiratory infection, hypertension, construction workers, high cholesterol, and diabetes mellitus.
What is risk factors contributing to decreased sensory perception?
Call light is within reach, the bed is in the lowest position and locked, bed alarms are answered within a timely manner, and grip socks are worn.
What are nursing interventions to prevent falls in hospitals?
What is water?
The part of the body that transports the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is ureters?
Immature skin, prolonged duration of pressure, and poor perfusion. Increased risk of dermatitis, skin tears, and pressure injuries.
What is the complications and risk factors in neonates and young children?
A test to show the ability of the patient to read from a distance.
What is a Snellen chart?
The stronger side of the individual.
What side of the body should a cane be held?
These minerals are needed in larger amounts to help the body function normally.
What is calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, chloride, potassium, and sulfur
Abdominal distension, decreased urinary output, urine leakage, and difficulty urinating.
What is urinary retention?
Heels, hips, sacrum, and back of the head.
What is the common formation sites for pressure injuries?
Gives function of sensory to the face and mobility of the jaw
What is the trigeminal nerve?
When nurses educate patients it is best to get information on how they understand the teaching regarding their health.
What is learning style?
Increase in weight, inflammation, and bleeding in the gums. Changes in skin, hair, nails, brain function, digestion, and teeth.
What is inadequate nutrition complications?
Fecal diversion by the stoma through the abdominal wall is the primary fecal passage of waste.
What is a colostomy?
Assessment of mobility, sensory perception, diet, activity, moisture, and friction/shear to determine risk for skin alterations. The lower the score, the greater the risk of tissue integrity.
What is the Braden Scale?
Done in a booth to minimize external noises and play sounds at different frequencies and pitches to determine hearing loss.
What is an audiometry test?
After the nurse has implemented their plan of care to the patient, they must reassess how the intervention worked on the patient.
What is evaluation?
Liquid that helps with swallowing in patients with dysphagia.
What is a thickened liquid?
Helps individuals with overactive bladders by retaining or holding the urine in their bladder to build the muscles around it.
What is bladder training?
When symptoms of wound infection are suspected, this procedure should be done to get the specific bacteria infecting the wound.
What is a wound culture?
Describing items around the room or food on a place by how we tell time. This method is used by nurses when patients have a visual disability.
What is the clock method?
Level of prevention when a patient who had a stoke is involved in occupational therapy.
What is tertiary prevention?