Nutrition
These macronutrients provide the body's cells, organs, and tissues with energy they need to function.
What are carbohydrates?
The primary function of this system is to convert and remove excess waste and fluids from the body.
What is the urinary system?
Accounting for about 15% of total body weight, this is the largest organ system of the body.
What is skin?
This nerve is responsible for the sense of smell.
What is the olfactory nerve (I)?
These three elements are required for fire to burn.
What is oxygen, heat and fuel?
This abbreviation means "nothing by mouth."
This type of urinary incontinence is caused by nerve damage.
What is reflex incontinence?
This is a disruption in the normal composition and performance of the skin and its underlying structures.
What is a wound?
This pathology can cause damage to the blood vessels of the retina, leading to impaired vision and blindness, known as retinopathy.
What is diabetes mellitus?
This fixed-performance device delivers oxygen at high concentrations, with adjustable barrels at the base of the mask.
What is a Venturi mask?
This thin plastic tube is placed via the nostril, down the esophagus and into the stomach.
What is an NG tube?
This type of infection can result if a UTI is left untreated.
What is a kidney infection or pyelonephritis?
This fluid is secreted by the body during the inflammatory stage of healing and is made of plasma.
What is exudate?
The Rinne test uses this device to determine if hearing loss is due to an issue with bone conduction with the air conduction of sound via the auditory canal.
What is a tuning fork?
This hormone is excreted by the hypothalamus and maintains blood pressure and fluid volume.
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
An area of any population where it is difficult to find good-quality, affordable nutritious foods.
Food desert
This test is used to evaluate urine for the presence of bacteria and yeast that may cause a UTI.
What is a urine culture?
These dressings are used in dry wounds for debridement of necrotized tissue and eschar.
What are hydrogels?
This external device is used to produce voice by emitting vibrations.
What is an electrolarynx?
This term describes how efficient an infectious agent is at making people ill.
What is virulent?
This chemical process enables the body to use the energy extracted from ingested food.
What is metabolism?
This type of test is used to find organisms in the stool that may be the cause of severe or persistent diarrhea.
What is a stool culture?
The Braden Scale has a lowest overall score of 6, this score is maximum number a client can receive.
What is 23?
This chart is used to measure how accurately the client can read lines of letters of various sizes.
What is a Snellen chart?
Client education should be written at this grade level.
What is sixth-grade?