Cancer
How often should a patient self catheterize when they have an Indiana pouch
What is every 4 to 6 hours?
This is placed directly into or near a tumor, within a body cavity or through a catheter or applicator device
What is a radium implant?
Poached eggs, whole wheat toast, and apple juice would be an appropriate menu choice for this patient
What is a hemodialysis patient?
Information that the RN will include when teaching adults how to decrease cancer risk of the tongue and buccal mucosa
What is avoiding cigarettes and smokeless tobacco?
All patients hospitalized as a result of a trauma and/or are in the ICU receive this.
What is famotidine (Pepcid)?
Life expectancy after a kidney transplant
What is 40 years?
The formula for urine output that is expected every hour
What is 0.5mL/kg/hr?
In addition to lung cancer cigarette smoking is a risk for this
What is bladder cancer?
Side effects from this medication can include headache, chills, nausea and vomiting, cough, back pain, increased risk of infection due to low white blood cells, and ventricular dysfunction leading to heart failure
What is Trastizimab (Herceptin)?
What is drain and measure the output from the ostomy?
This type of chemotherapy treatment is used for non muscle invasive bladder cancer
What is intravesical chemotherapy?
Bruising around the umbilicus is known as this
What is Cullen's sign?
This organ can be split into two parts thus two patients can receive from the same donor
What is the liver?
A regular hemodialysis patient who has CKD should have education on their diet regarding this
What is increasing the protein because the urea and creatinine are removed by the dialysis?
When should young women perform breast self exams
What is after their menstrual period?
Famotidine (Pepcid) is used for what.
What is the prevention of stress ulcers?
Most patients with familial adenomatous polyposis have this by age 25
What is a total colectomy?
What is avoid smoked foods such as ham and bacon?
A knife wound to the abdomen should have an initial assessment of this.
What is check for circulation and tissue perfusion?
Risk for infection is high in the first few months post transplant and often this is the only sign of infection
What is a low grade fever?
Commercial salt substitutes are high is potassium and should be avoided by which patients
What are peritoneal dialysis patients?
What is offer supplemental feedings between meals?
What is a radium implant?
This must be included in the plan of care for a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis.
What are yearly colonoscopy's?
This type of cancer tests negative for all three receptors i.e., estrogen, progesterone, and HER-2
What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer?
This is performed on patients who have been in a trauma for verification of what if any free fluid is in the abdomen
What is gastric lavage?
This organ is subject to a less aggressive immunologic attack than other
transplant organs
What is the liver?
Hypokalemia and hyponatremia are often seen in a patient with this disease process
What is a chronic renal failure patient?
The treatment choice in patients with localized renal tumors who have no co-morbidities
What is a partial or total nephrectomy?
What type of patient would be taking tacrolimus (Prograf), cyclosporine (Sandimmune), and prednisone
What is a transplant patient (kidney)?
Assessment finding for a child with Wilms' tumor
What is abdominal swelling?
The RN should educate a patient with bladder cancer who is preparing to receive intravesical chemotherapy this
What is empty their bladder before the chemo is instilled?
Return of brown drainage and fecal material suggests perforation of the bowel and the need for what.
What is immediate surgery?
This must be taken for life post transplant
What are immunosuppressants?
A peritoneal dialysis patient should be taking these with meals to help control serum phosphate and calcium levels
What are phosphate binders?
This is the highest priority when caring for a patient with pancreatic cancer
What is administer prescribed opioids to relieve pain as needed?
Pancrelipase (Viokase) is best taken at this time
What is mealtime?
What is important to add to a nursing plan of care for a patient who had a abdominal perineal resection for colon cancer.
What is assess the perineal drainage and the incision?
Patients should be educated that there is a strong correlation between this type of cancer and vulvar cancer
What is HPV?
A hard, rigid, and distended abdomen in a trauma patient is a strong indicator for this
What is intraabdominal bleeding?
Donation of this organ may come a live donor
What is the kidney?
Patients who are receiving peritoneal dialysis should have this type of diet
What is a high protein diet?
Of the two which has the best survival rate for stage 1 breast cancer - lumpectomy and radiation or modified radical mastectomy
What is they are all comparable?
RN should provide education as to a known side effect for prostate cancer medication leuprolide (lupron)
What is flushing?
Chemotherapy appears to have the most success in treating this female cancer
What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer?
What is age 16?
This should be the first assessment for a patient with possible renal trauma
What is check the blood pressure and heart rate?
Asterixis and lethargy are indicative of what
What is grade 2 hepatic encephalopathy?
The general rule for calculating fluid restrictions
What is add all fluid losses from the previous 24 hours, plus 600 mL for insensible losses?
What are the two main risks factors for breast cancer
What are early menarche and late menopause?
Pancrelipase (Viokase) is prescribed for this reason
What is help with digestion of nutrients?
This type of colostomy is usually temporary.
What is a loop or double barrel stoma?
Nurses should educate that HPV and smoking are risk factors for what type of cancer
What is cervical cancer?
Trauma patient arrives with a knife handle protruding from the abdomen the nurse should do this first
What is check for circulation and tissue perfusion?
This type of therapy can change over the recipient's lifetime
What is immunosuppressant therapy?
This type of kidney disease patients are often asymptomatic although the disease is progressive and irreversible
What is chronic kidney disease (CKD)?
The Indiana pouch enables the patient to do what
What is self catheterize?
A patient taking trastuzumab (Herceptin) should call their provider immediately if they notice what while taking the medication
What is ankle swelling (heart failure)?
RN should monitor for these possible complications for a patient who has just undergone a total nephrectomy
What is decreased renal perfusion, bleeding, inadequate fluid intake, or obstruction at the suture line?
The primary treatment goal for a patient with severe heart failure who has increased blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine levels
What is maintaining cardiac output?
A patient with a penetrating knife wound injury to the abdomen should be assessed for this.
What is hypovolemic shock?
This assessment finding suggests a possible cancer reoccurrence for a patient who had a kidney transplant 5 years ago
What is a nontender axillary lump?
A assessment finding that the RN should expect with a patient with AKI and a arterial blood pH of 7.30
What is rapid, deep respirations?