This type of theraphy is a form of treatment that is used for severely depressed patients who are not responding to psychotropic medications.
What is ECT? (electroconvulsive theraphy)
100
This is often ordered for people undergoing abdominal or intestinal surgery in order to empty the bowel to reduce fecal contamination?
What is an enema?
100
This type of laboratory test measures in milliters per hour the speed at which blood cells settle in a tube.
What is an ESR or sed rate?
100
This drug is a pure opiod anagonist that counteracts the effects of morphine in an overly sedated patient.
What is Narcan (naloxone)?
100
Cancer cells that remain in one area are referred to as localized or as this term.
What is in situ cancers.
200
This classification of medications include alprazolam and lorazepam and are often used in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
What are benodiazepines?
200
This is ordered post operatively to prevent atelectasis by increasing lung volumes and alveoli expansion.
What is an incentive spirometer?
200
An infection that develops as a result of a patient's stay in the hospital or health care agency is called this.
What is a noscomial infection?
200
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are used for which types of infections?
What is bacterial?
200
The highest incidence of cancer in women is in this area.
What is breast?
300
This is an irrational fear of an object or a situation.
What is a phobia?
300
This is a rare, hereditary muscular disease that can be triggered by some types of general anesthetic agents.
What is malignant hyperthermia?
300
The classes of medications that include corticosteroids and antidepressants may potentiate the effects of opiods and nonopiods.
What are analgesic adjuvants?
300
This is the most serious form of hypersensitivity and is characterized by shortness of breath, laryngeal edema, and shock.
What is anaphylaxis?
300
This is the most common type of cancer and the most preventable.
What is skin cancer?
400
A patient that is taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) should avoid foods high in content of this substance.
What is tyramine?
400
When a wound is left open and allowed to heal by granulation this is known as healing by what?
What is secondary intention?
400
This is the preferred route for analgesic administration.
What is the oral route?
400
If a patient is allergic to penicillin, there is a possibility that they have a cross sensitivity to this other class of drugs.
What are cephalosporins?
400
The three primary factors to protect a nurse from exposure from radiation
What is time, distance, shielding?
500
A patient that is taking lithium should be educated to keep a steady and consistent intake of this in their diet?
What is sodium?
500
This type of nutrient is necessary for tissue growth, skin intergrity, and cell mediated immunity.
What is zinc?
500
This vital sign, if elevated, should trigger a nurse to question the placement of a fentanyl patch.
What is an elevated temperature or fever?
500
Cinchonism is another name for this.
What is quinine poisoning?
500
An oncological emergency that involves an abnormal activation of the clot formation and fibrin mechanisms in the blood, resulting in the consumption of coagulation factors and platelets.
Wat is disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)?