Wounds
Vital Signs
Medication Administration I
Medication Administration II
Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Administration
100
Impaired skin integrity related to unrelieved, prolonged pressure
What is pressure ulcer
100
The difference between the amount of heat produced by body process and the amount lost to the external environment.
What is body temperature
100
Clear liquid containing water and /or alcohol; often sweetened
What is elexir
100
It is made of glass with a constricted neck that must be snapped off to allow access to the medication
What is ampule
100
When obtaining blood for glucose monitoring where would you puncture the finger?
What is along the side of the finger pad
200
The sliding movement of skin and subcutaneous tissue while the underlying muscle and bone are stationary.
What is shear force
200
Involuntary body response to temperature differences in the body.
What is shivering
200
Semiliquid suspension that usually protects, cools, or clinses skin
What is lotion
200
Injection that involve placing medication into the loose connective tissue under the dermis.
What is subcutaneous
200
The only type of insulin that can be given intravenously is
What is regular insulin
300
Partial thickness loss of dermis presents as a shallow, open ulcer with a red-pink wound bed without slough
What is Stage II
300
Easily accessible pulse site used during physiological shock or cardiac arrest when other sites are not palpable. It is located along medial edge of sternocleidomastoid muscle in neck.
What is carotid
300
Undesired, unintended, and often unpredictable responses to medication are referred to as
What is adverse effects
300
Patient requests a flu shot (IM injection). Which site would you choose to administer the vaccine?
What is deltoid
300
What is the onset of the rapid acting (lispro) insulin?
What is 10 to 30 min
400
Purple or maroon localized area of discolored intact skin or a blood- filled blister caused by damage of underlying soft tissue from pressure and/or shear.
What is suspected Deep-Tissue Injury
400
Respiratory rate and depth are irregular, characterized by alternating periods of apnea and hyperventilation. Respiratory cycle begins with slow, shallow breaths that gradually increase to abnormal rate and depth. The pattern reverses; breathing slows and becomes shallow, concluding as apnea before respiration resumes.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respiration
400
The time it takes for excretion processes to lower the amount of unchanged medication by half
What is half-life of the medicaiton
400
After receiving an intramuscular (IM) injection in the deltoid, a patient states, " My arm really hurts. It's burning and tingling where I got my injection. What should the nurse do next?
What is 1. Assess the injection site 2. Notify the patient's HCP of assessment findings 3. Document the assessment findings, related interventions, and patient's response in the medical record
400
The time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration is called .....
What is peak
500
Partial or total separation of wound layers.
What is dehiscence
500
The nursing assistive personnel informs you that the electronic blood pressure machine on the patient who has recently returned from surgery following removal of her gallbladder is flashing a blood pressure of 65/46 and alarming. What would you do first ? 1. Obtain a new reading with the electronic machine. 2. Obtain a manual blood pressure. 3. Check patient pulse distal to the blood pressure cuff. 4. Assess the patient mental status. 5. Remind the patient not to bend her arm with the blood pressure cuff.
What is assess the patient mental status
500
Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled dose
What is trough
500
You are working in a health clinic on a college campus. You need to administer medroxyprogesterone acetate intramuscularly (IM) to a female patient for birth control. You look up this medication in a reference manual and determine that it is viscous and injection can be painful. On the basis of this information, how are you planning to administer this medication?
What is 1. Administer the medication in the ventrogluteal site. 2. Use the Z-track method when administering the medication. 3. Ask the patient questions to provide distraction.
500
The long acting insulin glargine (Lantus) has a onset , peak and duration of ....
What is 1. Onset of 0.8 to 4hr 2. Less defined or no pronounced peak 3. Duration of 16 to 24 hr
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