Wounds
Erythema
What is redness?
QID
4 times a day
low and high blood sugars
hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia
Utilize medical terminology for a heart rate of 120 and 45.
Tachycardia and bradcardia
What are signs and symptoms of a DVT?
unilateral edema, erythema, warm to touch, painful
Purulent
What is infected drainage, pus?
TID
3 times a day
Medical terminology for low and high sodium
hypo and hypernatremia
Beta blocker, heart rate, and BP
What is the main cause of arrhythmias?
Electrolyte imbalances
serous drainage
What is clear drainage?
HS
bedtime
Low and high potassium levels
Hypo and hyperkalemia
What would a BNP of 20000 possibly indicate?
What is heart failure?
If a patient is receiving scheduled lasix and have a potassium level of 3.2, what do you do?
Notify provider, plan for k replacement
sanguineous
serousanginous
Induration
bloody drainage?
pink drainage?
hard or firm?
PC
after meals
supratherapeutic INR, risk factors associated, reasons
high INR, bleeding, anti-coagulants
Diagnostics to determine if pt has has a myocardial infarction
Troponin levels, EKG
Medication utilized to treat CHF and nursing implications.
Lasix, bumex, monitor K levels, intake, output
Utilize medical terminology and describe a surgical wound that smells badly, small amount of yellowish pus, 1 cm opening on far aspect of wound otherwise incision is closed.
Midline abdominal surgical incision with small amount of purulent drainage with a foul odor. 1 cm area of dehiscence distal aspect of wound otherwise well-approximated.
BID AC
Twice a day before meals
leukocytosis and cause
Elevated WBC, inflammatory response likely from infectious process
What questions would you ask for a patient with CP?
Where, quality, numerical rating, reproducible, radiating, sob, worsens upon taking deep breaths, or palpation? Pain Quality Radiating/ reproducible, ST
Provokes, quality, radiates, severity, and time
Your patient is having chest pain with breathing, sob, tachycardia, decreased activity intolerance, lightheadedness, dizziness, near syncopal episode, and complaining of calf tenderness. What might this indicate and what lab value might you expect to be ordered?
PE from DVT, d-dimer