Hormone Regulation
Produced by a gland; chemical message that stimulates cell action.
What is a hormone?
The state of blood glucose level greater than 100 mg/dL.
What is hyperglycemia?
The state of structurally intact and physiologically functioning epithelial tissue and mucous membranes.
What is tissue integrity?
Fatigue, weight gain, depression, low heart rate, low respiratory rate, and myxedema.
What is hypothyroidism?
Cleaning and dressing to promote healing.
What is wound care?
Specific area that hormones can influence.
What is target tissue?
The process of maintaining optimal blood glucose levels.
What is glucose regulation?
The largest organ of the body?
What is the skin?
Truncal obesity, reduced muscle mass, loss of bone density, hypertension, and thin skin.
What is Cushing Syndrome?
The best way to maintain healthy metabolism, hormonal and glucose regulation, and tissue integrity?
What is nutrition?
Information regarding a hormone level is communicated back to the gland that secretes the hormone.
What is negative feedback?
Fasting glucose levels between 70-99 mg/dL, 100-140 mg/dL after eating.
What is euglycemia?
Lines the eyelids, nose, mouth, ears, and genitals.
What are mucous membranes?
Can cause life-threatening fluid and electrolyte imbalances such as hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, and hypovolemia.
What is Addison's Disease?
After this, the nurse must monitor closely for airway obstruction.
What is thyroidectomy?
Mechanisms that regulate the secretion and action of hormones.
What is hormone regulation?
The state of glucose levels less than 70 mg/dL.
What is hypoglycemia?
Another term for "goosebumps".
What is piloerection?
Thin appearing, common in children and adolescents, autoimmune destruction of pancreatic b-cells.
What is Diabetes Mellitus Type 1?
Used in the treatment of DM II, manages glycemic control by reducing insulin resistance and increasing insulin secretion.
What are oral hypoglycemic agents?
An organ that produces and secretes hormones into the bloodstream.
What is an endocrine gland?
The major form of stored glucose found in the liver and muscle cells.
What is glycogen?
Muscle, neural, connective, and epithelial.
What are the 4 types of tissues?
Unrelieved pressure causing a disruption in perfusion to tissue.
What is a pressure injury?
This is a replacement hormone to achieve euglycemia.
What is insulin?