NUTRITION
Organ responsible for filtering toxins from the blood and producing bile that breaks down carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
What is Liver?
The process of the elimination of urine through the urethra and out of the body.
What is Urination?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is Skin?
A reduction in or absence of stimuli to one or more of the five senses.
What is Sensory Deprivation?
The most effective way to prevent health care-associated infections.
What is Practicing Hand Hygiene?
Diet containing foods that are soft, easy to digest, low in fiber, and easy to swallow without difficulty.
What is Soft Diet?
Contractions that occur throughout the digestive system that move food along a pathway to be digested.
What is Peristalsis?
The process of surgically removing dead tissue and other debris that can cause infection.
What is Debridement?
A client with this speaks in long sentences that have no meaning and often include unnecessary and made-up words.
What is Comprehensive Aphasia?
Natural internal process that regulates the sleep–wake cycle within a 24-hour period.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
Calculated by the client’s weight is first divided by their height, then this calculation is repeated once more, and then this number is then multiplied by 703.
What is BMI?
A chronic disease that causes inflammation and ulcerations of the large intestine or colon
What is Ulcerative colitis (UC)?
An area of a reddened skin that temporarily turns white or pale when light pressure is applied. the skin then reddens when pressure is relieved.
What is Blanchable Erythema?
A test used to assess macular degeneration whereby a client is shown a grid made of lines, like graph paper, and asked if the lines look straight or wavy, or if any section of the grid is missing.
What is an Amsler Grid?
The amount of time required for 50% of a drug to be excreted from the body.
What is Half-life?
Supplement that can decrease the effectiveness of medications including birth control, cardiac medications, and antidepressants.
What is St. John's wort?
Classification of laxative that softens stool; secretes water & electrolytes into the intestines.
What is Surfactant?
Cells found in the epidermis that play a role in cutaneous immune system reactions, that ingest and package foreign antigens to be presented to lymphocytes.
What is Langerhans Cells?
This nerve is responsible for sensory to face and motor to muscles of jaw.
What is Trigeminal (V)?
Test which may indicate low calcium or magnesium levels. A positive result results in a twitching response of the side of the face when facial nerves are tapped.
What is Chvostek sign?
A carbohydrate-containing food's ability to increase the body's blood glucose level.
What is the Glycemic Index?
Torsemide (Demadex), Furosemide (Lasix), & Bumetanide
What is Loop Diuretics?
The most common causative agent of SSIs.
What is Staphylococcus aureus Bacterium?
This organ is controlled by these three nerves: oculomotor (cranial nerve III), trochlear (cranial nerve IV), and abducens (cranial nerve VI).
What is the Eye?
Electrical waveform on an electroencephalogram seen mainly during stage 2 sleep cycle, also described as brief.
What is K-complex?