All about Nursing
The intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action.
What is Critical Thinking?
What is the proper position when catheterizing a patient?
What is Dorsal Recumbent/Lithotomy position
The first step in the nursing process.
What is Assessment?
Patients who are incontinent of both urine and stool are at high risk for this type of breakdown.
What is perineal dermatitis?
The movement of a limb or other part toward the midline of the body or toward another part.
What is Adduction?
A type of precaution that healthcare providers initiate and maintain when a patient is immunocompromised.
What is a neutropenic precaution?
This lung sound produces high-pitched whistling sound that is produced when there is a narrowing of an airway
What is Wheezing
It is a SMART statement with a time frame of more than 2 weeks that could go for months.
What is a long-term goal?
You should educate pregnant women not to consume certain medications, food, and substances due to their ________ effect on the fetus.
What is teratogenic?
Tactile stimulation is a combination of _____, _______ and _____
What is temperature, touch, and texture?
It is a clear, straw-colored discharge from a wound.
What is serous drainage?
What is this odor less and color less gas that is crucial in stimulating a person's breathing.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
A line of questioning that requires more than a yes/no answer.
What are open-ended questions?
This is a nursing intervention that nurses do before and after administering medication or feeding via a catheter or a tube.
What is flushing?
The term is used when there is a lack of oxygen in the bloodstream.
What is Hypoxemia?
Electrolyte imbalance can be caused by a loop diuretic.
What is hypokalemia?
Having an absent bowel sound for days is a disorder that can develop in patients who had a spinal injury, immobility, or post-operative procedures because their intestinal muscles become inactive.
What is Paralytic ileus?
A condition in which bones become weak and brittle.
What is Osteoporosis?
Refers to healing of an open wound, from the base upwards, by laying down new tissue
What is granulation?
Abnormal deep, rapid, labored breathing occurs as an involuntary response to severe acidosis.
What is Kussmaul's respiration/breathing?
An important sensory factor that affects a person's circadian rhythm.
What is light?
Provides voluntary control of urine flow from the bladder to the urethra.
What is the external urethral sphincter?
A nutrient your body needs to grow and repair cells and work properly.
What is Protein?
The term is used for an overgrowth of gum tissue around the teeth that sometimes occurs in patients taking anticonvulsant/seizure medications.
What is gingival hyperplasia?
The patient performs the exercise to move the joint without any assistance to the muscles surrounding the joint?
What is Active ROM?