Vital Signs
Vital Signs include what?
Pulse, temp, RESPs, BP, O2 level.
What are the five steps involved in the nursing process?
Assess, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
A patient develops hives after they are given an antibiotic. what is the patient expiriencing?
Allergic reaction
Florence Nightingale
The fifth vital sign is considered to be?
Pain
Objective data is what?
Data that can be measured
The nurse goes into a room to mobilize a patient, upon standing the patient is dizzy, and their blood pressure drops. what is the patient experiencing
Orthostatic Hypotension
True or false. On average nurses will walk about 1-2 miles in a 12 hours shift
False. We walk around 4-5 miles
When body temperature falls below 93.2 degrees Fahrenheit, the person is suffering from what?
Hypothermia
Subjective data is what?
Symptoms the patient tells you
A patient is on constant IV fluid for dehydration. When the nurse does her next assessment she notices that the patient is edematous, hypertensive, and short of breath with crackles heard bilaterally in the lungs. What is the Patient experiencing?
Fluid Volume Overload
What year was the first nursing college established in the US
1873 in New York City
A rise of 1 degree Fahrenheit in temperature will increase the pulse rate by how many beats per minute?
10 beats per minute
This association was established to develop, refine, and promote the taxonomy of nursing diagnostic terminology used by nurses
North american nursing diagnosis association international (NANDA)
A patient who is taking Spironolactone should be concerned about what electrolyte value
potassium/hyperkalemia
What is Kent states nursing program ranked in the US
We are number 61 out of about 2,600!!!
What area of the brain is responsible for regulating temperature
Hypothalmus
What are the 3 parts of a nursing diagnosis (PES)
The problem, Etiology, signs and symptoms
You can administer nitroglycerin----- times in ----- minutes for angina
3 times in 15 minutes
Are we all going to pass our finals?!
Heck Yeah!!!!