Musculskeletal
This vitamin and mineral pair is essential for bone health and helps prevent osteoporosis.
What are calcium and vitamin D?
In a patient with heart failure, this elevated lab value indicates ventricular stretching and worsening fluid overload.
What is BNP?
This ABG pattern—low PaCO2 and high pH—commonly occurs in early stages of an asthma attack.
What is respiratory alkalosis?
A patient with acute glomerulonephritis is most at risk for this complication due to sodium and fluid retention.
What is hypertension?
This position is recommended for a client experiencing dyspnea to promote optimal lung expansion.
What is High Fowler’s position?
This autoimmune disorder causes pannus formation, leading to joint destruction and symmetrical pain in small joints.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
This type of shock may occur after an acute MI and causes decreased cardiac output despite adequate fluid status.
What is cardiogenic shock?
This complication of mechanical ventilation occurs when excessive pressure causes alveolar rupture.
What is barotrauma?
This blood test is the most specific indicator of kidney function.
What is serum creatinine?
his electrolyte imbalance is most likely in a client receiving loop diuretics and presenting with muscle weakness and irregular heart rhythm.
What is hypokalemia?
This post-operative complication presents with sudden restlessness, tachypnea, and a feeling of 'impending doom' after a long-bone fracture repair.
What is a fat embolism?
This characteristic chest pain pattern—crushing, unrelieved by rest—differentiates infarction from angina.
What is pain unrelieved by rest or nitroglycerin?
This oxygen device requires humidification and delivers precise FiO2, making it ideal for COPD patients.
What is a Venturi mask?
This type of acute kidney injury is caused by conditions like severe dehydration or hemorrhage.
What is prerenal AKI?
This is the minimum number of seconds a nurse should spend performing hand hygiene with soap and water according to CDC guidelines.
What is 20 seconds?
This lab value must be monitored closely when administering methotrexate to patients with severe arthritis.
What are liver function tests (AST/ALT)?
This lab value is monitored in patients taking warfarin.
What is the INR?
A sudden absence of breath sounds on one side after chest trauma indicates this life-threatening condition.
What is a pneumothorax?
This blood disorder commonly occurs in chronic kidney disease due to reduced production of erythropoietin.
What is anemia?
This is the priority nursing intervention when a client receiving enteral tube feeding begins coughing and choking.
What is stop the feeding immediately and assess for aspiration?
This finding—pain with passive stretch—indicates the earliest stage of this limb-threatening complication.
What is compartment syndrome?
Edema, crackles, and shortness of breath are hallmark signs of this condition.
What is left-sided heart failure?
This infection control precaution requires a negative-pressure room and an N95 mask.
What are airborne precautions?
Patients with kidney stones should increase this dietary habit to help prevent recurrence of calcium oxalate stones.
What is increased fluid intake?
This is the first action a nurse should take when a client with a Foley catheter develops cloudy urine and a fever.
What is assess the client and notify the provider?