52: Reproductive
The reason why a patient recovering from a modified radical mastectomy needs to exercise the affected arm.
What is to reduce lymphedema?
The first step that must be done if a chemical splashes into your eyes.(Be specific on type of liquid and time)
Irrigate with NS for 20 minutes.
The cardinal sign of increased intracranial pressure in a brain injured patient.
What is decreased level of consciousness?
This is what you will do immediately if a patient is having a blood transfusion and c/o chills, itching and SOB.
What is stop the transfusion and continue with saline?
The most common method of transmission for HIV.
What is sexual transmission?
This is what you need to ask if you have a young woman present to the ER with an elevated temp, low BP, HA, and desquamation of both palms.
What is do you use tampons?
The process when the lens of the eye changes its curvature to focus on the retina.
What is accommodation?
The patient's inability to assess spatial position of his body.
What is proprioception?
The time frame that blood must be transfused once removed from the refrigerator.
What is 4 hours?
The usual pattern of progression for HIV includes these 4 periods.
What is acute retroviral syndrome, early infection, early symptomatic disease, and AIDS.
The simplest and most appropriate nursing intervention we can do for a second day post op abdominal hysterectomy patient to stimulate a bowel movement.
What is ambulate the patient?
Seeing flashing lights and a curtain down over the eye is a symptom of this condition.
What is a detached retina?
The name of the period following a tonic-clonic seizure in which the patient is in a deep sleep.
What is the postictal period?
The type of immunity a patient who received a tetanus antitoxin with antibodies in it is receiving. (Choose active/passive and natural/artificial)
What is passive artificial?
It is very important to educate the HIV patient who is not sick about this in regards to other people.
What is he can still transmit the disease?
The patient who has had a total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy has had these organs removed.
What are uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes?
The physical reason otitis media is seen more frequently in children 6 to 36 months.
What is the eustachian tubes are shorter and straighter?
The amount of hours of the onset of symptoms that t-PA (Activase) must be given to have maximum benefits.
What is 3 hours?
Nursing intervention you must perform if the patient who is having allergy testing c/o itching, weakness, & dizziness.
What is administer epinephrine?
Reddish purple skin lesions are signs of this type of sarcoma.
What is Kaposi's sarcoma?
This type of gynecological test would be done for a 48 year old female patient who has not had an exam in over five years.
What is a Papanicolaou smear?
The nursing intervention you must perform when a patient experiences enucleation of the eye.
What is apply a pressure dressing?
The primary nursing intervention that must be completed if the spinal cord injury patient c/o stuffy nose, HA, and you observe flushing of the neck and "goose flesh".
What is sit patient upright and check blood pressure?
The type of transfusion reaction a patient is having if he develops orthopnea.
What is a mild transfusion reaction?
The progression from HIV disease to AIDS includes these three factors.
What is an HIV + test result, CD4+ count below 200. and a history of opportunistic disease?