Fundamentals
The ethical principle for "making a promise to a patient."
What is fidelity?
The LPN is using this ethical principle when instructing the postoperative client to turn, take deep breaths, and cough every 2 hours.
What is beneficience?
This type of infection usually does not occur in individuals with a healthy immune system.
What is an opportunistic infection?
List six rights of medication administration.
What are right time, right route, right amount (dose), right medication, right patient, right allergies, right documentation, right education, right evaluation, right to refuse?
This is the maximum amount of time that the client can be suctioned for.
What is 10 seconds?
A set of learned objective assessment skills required in fundamentals of nursing.
What are vital signs?
A client is in hypovolemic shock. You would administer this IV solution while waiting for a unit of blood.
What is 0.9% sodium chloride?
The first stage of shock.
What is compensation?
The nurse must do this many checks prior to administering drugs to a client.
What is 3?
This acid-base imbalance is common in COPD.
What is respiratory acidosis?
The five characteristics of legally defensible charting/ documentation.
What are factual, accurate, complete, current, and organized?
The nurse should review this lab result following the administration of packed red blood cells.
What is hematocrit?
This is the rhythm of a dying heart.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
The nurse should flush an NG or G-tube with this much water before and after administering each medication?
What is 15 to 30 mL?
This is a brief episode of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
What is a seizure?
This lab value is used to assess nutritional status.
What is albumin?
This type of blood is collected from a client during a surgical procedure and reinfused during surgery or after.
What is salvaged blood?
This is the change of the normal sequence of cardiac impulses resulting in erratic heart rhythms or rates that are too fast or slow.
What are arrhythmias or dysrhythmias?
Nitroglycerin is used for this condition.
What is angina ?
These are harmful chemicals released by bacterial cells. They are also the most likely to cause septic shock.
What are endotoxins?
The components of the chain of infection.
What are 1) infectious agents, 2) reservoir, 3) portal of exit, 4) mode of transmission, 5) portal of entry, 6) susceptible host?
This laboratory test indicates level of heart failure.
What is B-type Natriuretic peptides (BNP)?
Lack of fluctuation in the water-seal chamber of a chest tube could indicate this.
What is the tube is clogged or kinked, or the suction unit has malfunctioned?
Vitamin K is an antidote for this medication.
What is warfarin?
This laboratory test from a 24-hour urine specimen determines if a patient has pheochromocytoma.
What is catecholamine metabolites?