CANCER
After chemotherapy, the resultant anemia is treated by giving this medication SQ to stimulate more stem cells to become RBC's
What is Epoetin alfa (Procrit)?
With an infected wound, this is obtained before starting the antibiotics.
What is a Wound Culture?
Your clients wound is healing by secondary intention, so it filling in with this kind of tissue.
What is Granulation?
Your client is having great difficulty breathing and you notice the trachea has shifted to the left. Your client likely has this.
What is a Right-sided pneumothorax?
The type of breathing that COPD clients need to be instructed to use. It includes using their abdominal muscles for breathing, exhaling slowly without puffing out their cheeks, and exhaling twice as long as they inhale.
What is Pursed-lip breathing?
Staging cancer that is present at a primary site, spread to 2 surrounding lymph nodes, and metastasized to one other organ is classified as this.
What is T1-N2-M1 ?
Your client has MRSA. This medication is likely to be ordered.
What is Vancomycin?
Fine, flat red dots scattered over the body that do not itch.
What are Petechiae?
You client has thick sputum and an abnormally high chloride skin test and genetic testing has been recommended for the parents. The client probably has this condition.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Deep suctioning should not be done on a client that has this condition, even though they have thick secretions of pus.
What is Empyema?
This medication is frequently given for nausea prevention during chemotherapy administration, but has the dangerous side-effect of prolonging the QT segment.
What is Ondansetron (Zofran)?
An over abundance of neutrophils, segs and bands in the bone marrow that shows up on a CBC differential, indicating the infection is caused by a bacteria.
What is a Left shift?
Your client has red/white itchy patches between the fingers and on the wrists. You suspect Scabies. This medication will likely be ordered.
What is Ivermectin or permethrin?
Your client is going for a laryngectomy. These need to be determined and practiced prior to surgery.
What are Alternate communication methods?
In caring for a client with Community Acquired Pneumonia in the ED, it is important to give the client this before admitting them to the hospital floor.
What are Broad-spectrum Antibiotics?
The Seven warning signs of chancer include:
C-changes is bowel/bladder habits
A-A sore throat that does not heal
U-unusual bleeding or discharge
T- Thickening or lump development
I-indigestion or trouble swallowing
These are the other two.
What are:
O-obvious changes in a wart or mole
N-nagging cough or hoarseness
The largest, most important barrier to infection that a body possesses.
What is Skin?
The lesion assessment tool that helps determine the risk of a mole being cancerous
What is ABCDE?
Before assisting with a thoracentesis, the nurse must remember to get this.
What is Informed Consent?
Direct Observation Therapy is sometimes used with this disease, as its treatment may last as long as 9 months and adherence to the treatment regimen is critical.
What is Tuberculosis?
After radiation treatments to the throat area, this condition of dry mouth may be present permanently.
What is Xerostomia?
When caring for an active TB client, these two precautions are necessary to prevent others from contracting the disease.
What are:
1. Negative air pressure room
2. N95 mask or PAPR ?
The classification of a skin lesion that is thickened and very itchy
What is a Lichen lesion?
Methemoglobinemia is a condition that results from Carbon Monoxide exposure, but may also be present after the physician has used this medication to numb the throat for a scope procedure.
What is Benzocaine?
TB skin testing (Mantoux) is not considered positive unless it has this feature, which means it gets localized swelling with hardness of the soft tissue.
What is Induration?