I'm Thirsty
A liquid that hold a substance in solution (water)
What is a Solvent?
Entity responsible for licensing and code of conduct
What is the State Board of Nursing?
Facial expressions, eye contact, posture, gait, gestures and General physical appearance are examples of this
What is nonverbal communication?
Lung sounds heard over the lateral thorax lung fields
What are vesicular lung sounds?
This type of urinary incontinence happens when physical movement or activity (coughing, sneezing, running, lifting, laughing)
What is stress incontinence?
The state in which total cations equal to total anions
What is homeostasis?
The most important law affecting your
nursing practice
What is your State Nurse Practice Act?
A communication technique used in shift handoff
What is SBAR?
Low-pitched, rumbling coarse lung sounds heard either during inspiration or expiration; sometimes cleared by coughing.
What are rhonchi?
Type of urinary catheter placed when the urethra is obstructed
What is a suprapubic (cystostomy)tube?
Passage of fluid through a permeable membrane from the area of higher to lower pressure
What is Capillary filtration?
The principle in nursing to 'do no harm'
What is Nonmalificience?
A collection of subjective information about
the patient’s health status,
What is a health history?
When auscultating heart and lung sounds, utilizing this landmark helps identify the location of the bilateral second ribs and intercostal spaces
What is the Sternal Angle/Angle of Louis?
This type of ostomy drains high volumes of liquid stool, can result in Fluid & Electrolyte deficiencies and Peristomal skin breakdown
What is an ileostomy?
A distributional shift of body fluids out of the vasculature into potential body spaces
What is third-spacing?
Assessing and performing nursing actions for patient care based on competence, professional expertise, and knowledge are examples of this professional behavior
What is autonomy?
These are examples of factors that influence communication
Developmental level
Gender
Sociocultural differences
Roles and responsibilities
Space and territoriality
Physical, mental, and emotional state
Values
Environment
Breathing pattern that involves a period of fast, shallow breathing followed by slow, heavier breathing
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
Examples of Foley catheter care to reduce UTI
What is:
Insert using sterile technique
Keep drainage bag below the level of the bladder
Avoid kinks/loops in the tubing
Perform peri/foley care at least once per shift
Use sheet clip to minimize tug of catheter at urinary meatus
Evaluate need for keeping foley in place
Interpret this ABG:
ph: 7.47
PaCO2: 33
HCO3-: 24
What is Respiratory Alkalosis?
Disclosure
Comprehension
Competence
Voluntariness
The 4 principles of _________
What is informed consent?
By asking this type of followup question, the nurse makes sure he properly understands the client's statement
What is a clarifying question?
Hyperventilation in response to acidosis. Characterized by rapid, deep labored breathing.
What are Kussmaul Respirations?
An ostomy stoma that appears dusky, brown, black, or dry indicates that this is happening
What is tissue necrosis?