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This Blood type is the universal donor
What is type O blood?
This dysrhythmia is irregularly irregular.
What is atrial fibrillation?
The nurse uses the integration of the best current evidence and practices to make decisions about patient care.
What is evidenced based practice?
Post operatively urine output should be close to intake, report a urine output of less than this amount per hour to the Surgeon.
What is 30mL/hour?
A severe elevation in blood pressure (greater than 180/120) which can cause damage to organs.
What is hypertensive crisis or malignant hypertension?
This lab test is the most sensitive for measuring Kidney function?
What is creatinine level?
An early complex that occurs when a cardiac cell or cell group other than the sinoatrial node becomes irritable and fires an impulse before the next sinus impulse is generated.
What is a premature complex or beat?
The nurse recognizes the patient as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care.
What is patient centered care?
This is a collection of airway disorders that interfere with airflow and gas exchange.
What is COPD?
This condition can result from infection, deconditioning,Anesthesia, shallow breathing and lung disease, it involves collapse of lung tissue.
What is atelectasis?
These 2 neurological signs indicate hypocalcemia.
What are Chvostek and Trousseau?
This nursing intervention is more reliable than I&O to measure fluid balance
What are daily weights?
The skill of using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative health care solutions, conclusions, or approaches to clinical or practice problems.
What is critical thinking?
This is the priority action when caring fora patient with facial trauma.
What is airway assessment and management?
This type of heart failure is associated with Jugular vein distension, enlarged liver and spleen dependent edema and increased blood pressure.
What is right-sided heart failure?
These electrolytes are depleted in chronic ethanol use.
What are, magnesium, phosphate and calcium?
A client is being returned to his room after a subtotal tracheostomy. This piece of equipment is most important for the nurse to bring to this client's bedside?
What is a suction set up and replacement trach tube?
A group of health care professionals who save lives and decrease the risk for harm by providing care before a code or medical emergency occurs
What is the Rapid Response Team?
Tuberculosis (TB), is a highly communicable disease caused by infection. This answer describe a positive PPD.
What is redness with induration of 10mm or greater?
A blood clot or other object (e.g., air bubble, fatty deposit) that is carried in the bloodstream and lodges in another area.
What is an embolus?
ABG values are pH, 7.12,
PaCO2, 44 mm Hg,
and HC03, 15 mEq/L.
What is Metabolic Acidosis?
Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a defense response to harmful stressors. To be diagnosed with SIRS, a person must have two or more of the following criteria:
What is Temp over 100.4, Heart rate over 90 bpm,
Resp rate greater than 20 /minute OR
WBC greater than 12000 or less than 4000?
With this type of shock fluid volume is normal or increased, one of the causes is sepsis.
What is distributive shock?
This disease process is Right-sided heart
failure caused by pulmonary disease.
What is Cor pulmonale?
A patient is taking insulin with no history of diabetes, the nurse explained that one of the medications that she is taking sometimes caused hyperglycemia.
What are steroids?