The Air I breathe
Difficulty with eating, talking, skin irritation of the face and skin breakdown
What are the disadvantages of a facemask?
Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
What are the steps of the nursing process?
This is the most important thing you need to be aware of to reduce in prevention of a pressure injury.
What is the relief of pressure?
A nurse is auscultating heart sounds placing the stethoscope at the 2nd lright intercostal space. This is the sound s/he will hear.
What is the aortic valve?
This is the type of procedure urinary catheterization is.
What is sterile procedure?
This is the advantage of a Venturi mask.
What is a specific oxygen concentration?
A nurse determines that the patient’s condition has improved and has met the expected outcomes.
What is evaluation?
A wound that has loss of tissue, with widely separated wound edges that are unapproximated is healing by...
What is secondary intention?
A patient's peripheral leg circulation indicates poor venous return to the heart. This is what is showing.
What is edema?
This is the sleep where most dreams occur
What is high Fowlers?
The nurse checked the client's MAR and noted the last dose of pain Q4 prn medication was 6 hr. ago. She gives the pt 5 mg of Morphine. This step was left out.
What is assessment?
A client is 5 days post-op following abdominal surgery. An incisional wound is suspected. The provider prescribed antibiotic therapy. Which of the following findings should the nurse expect? (Select all that apply)
What are incisional pain, fever chills, and reddened wound edges?
This is a detailed assessment of a specific body system related to the presenting problem or current concern(s).
What is a focused assessment?
This is also known as sleep paralysis.
What is narcolepsy?
This is the proper name for difficulty breathing when lying down.
What is orthopnea
Data that you can measure or visualize with your eyes.
This is the most critical nutritional element needed for wound healing.
What is protein?
Open-ended questions.
Build rapport, are narrative in nature, and allow the pt to express themselves.
This theory asserts that non-painful input closes the nerve "gates" to painful input.
What is the Gate Theory?
The nurse correlates finger clubbing with this condition.
What is clubbing?
On post-op day 2, a client has not achieved good pain relief. According to the nursing process, this comes next.
What is reassesse to determine the lack of pain relief?
This is the pressure injury stage that is partial thickness skin loss with exposed dermis, involving the epidermis and the dermis.
What is Stage II
Breath sounds heard over the trachea
What are bronchial sounds?
Side effects of overdosing pain medication.
What is hypopnea, low BP, constipation?