Urinary
This classic urinary tract symptom describes acute burning, pain, or discomfort felt during micturition.
What is dysuria?
The only IV fluid compatible with packed red blood cells (PRBCs) during an infusion.
What is 0.9% Normal Saline (Sodium Chloride)?
he gold-standard non-invasive diagnostic scan used to measure bone mineral density (BMD) and identify osteoporosis.
What is a Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scan?
Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, joint stiffness in osteoarthritis is typically worst after activity and improves with this.
What is rest?
The classic erythematous facial rash distributed across the bridge of the nose and cheeks in clients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
What is a butterfly (malar) rash?
In older adults presenting with a UTI, this acute change often appears before hallmark symptoms like fever or dysuria.
What is acute confusion (or altered mental status/delirium)?
The absolute first nursing action if a client receiving blood develops chills, fever, dyspnea, back pain, or hives.
What is stop the transfusion immediately?
Clients taking oral bisphosphonates must remain upright for at least this long to prevent severe esophageal irritation or ulceration.
What is 30 minutes?
Bony enlargements located at the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints of the fingers characteristic of osteoarthritis.
What are Heberden nodes?
The duration of morning joint stiffness characteristic of active Rheumatoid Arthritis
What is greater than 60 minutes (or at least 1 hour)?
The primary nursing priority when a client arrives at the emergency department with severe, spasmodic flank pain radiating toward the groin caused by renal calculi.
What is acute pain management (analgesia)?
The maximum number of hours a single unit of PRBCs can safely hang to prevent dangerous bacterial growth.
What is 4 hours?
The type of exercise most recommended to stimulate osteoblast activity and slow bone loss in clients with osteoporosis.
What is weight-bearing exercise (e.g., walking)?
Although blood cultures and imaging are commonly performed, this procedure provides the definitive gold-standard diagnosis by identifying the causative pathogen in osteomyelitis.
What is a bone biopsy (or bone aspiration/culture)?
Environmental trigger that frequently exacerbates SLE skin lesions and systemic flare-ups
What is ultraviolet (UV) light / sunlight exposure?
To verify stone passage and analyze its chemical composition (e.g., calcium oxalate, uric acid), the nurse must instruct the patient to do this with all voided urine.
What is strain all urine?
The critical time window immediately following the start of an infusion during which the nurse must remain at the bedside to monitor closely for severe hemolytic or anaphylactic reactions.
What are the first 15 minutes?
Following a posterior approach Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA), the patient must avoid hip flexion beyond this angle to prevent prosthesis dislocation.
What is 90 degrees?
The hallmark non-specific inflammatory serum lab values (two tests) elevated in acute osteomyelitis used to monitor therapeutic response over time.
What are Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP)?
A patient taking methotrexate requires routine monitoring of this specific routine lab test due to potential bone marrow suppression.
What is a Complete Blood Count (CBC) with differential?
Because this 5-alpha reductase inhibitor (used to shrink prostate tissue in BPH) can be absorbed through the skin and cause birth defects in a male fetus, pregnant women and nurses of childbearing age must avoid handling crushed or broken tablets.
What is finasteride (Proscar)?
Dyspnea, crackles in lung bases, jugular vein distention (JVD), and hypertension during a rapid blood transfusion indicate this complication
What is Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload?
This wedge-shaped device is placed between a patient’s legs post-hip arthroplasty while in bed to prevent hip adduction across the midline.
What is an abduction pillow (or abductor splint)?
The life-threatening neurovascular complication that can develop within a fascial space secondary to severe localized edema and infection in osteomyelitis, marked by unrelenting pain out of proportion.
What is Compartment Syndrome?
this diagnostic finding on a routine urinalysis is one of the earliest signs of renal involvement in an SLE patie
What is proteinuria (or cellular casts)?