Nutrition
This is the process by which the body converts food into energy.
What is metabolism?
The first step in the clean catch method of collecting a urine specimen for urinalysis.
What is washing hands?
This protective layer’s ability to regenerate diminishes with age and conditions like cancer, making it more susceptible to damage.
What is Skin?
There are 6 senses involved with sensory perception.
What are sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and movement or position?
This is the driving factor for fluctuations in a person’s weight, teeth, hair, skin, brain, digestion, and immune system.
What is poor nutrition?
This vitamin is essential for vision and immune system function, and is commonly found in carrots and leafy greens.
What is Vitamin A?
A test commonly used to screen for colon or rectal cancer.
What is a colonoscopy?
This condition of vulnerable skin can be worsened by tight hair braids next to the scalp, increasing the risk of tissue breakdown.
What is Skin Frailty?
The 3 manifestations of sensory overload.
What are racing thoughts, anxiousness, and restlessness?
This diet focuses on controlling portions, consuming more fruits and vegetables, increasing whole grains, limiting unhealthy fats, eating low-fat protein sources, and decreasing sodium intake.
What is a heart-healthy diet?
This condition is characterized by a deficiency in vitamin D, leading to weakened bones.
What is Rickets?
A potential complication if the nurse does not maintain sterile technique during catheterization.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
This assessment tool evaluates tissue integrity risk through factors like friction and shear, often used by nurses in clinical settings.
What is the Braden Scale?
The antibiotics that can cause ototoxicity.
What are gentamicin and metronidazole?
This is a condition where the flow of intestinal contents decreases or stops.
What is an ileus?
This type of fat is typically found in plant oils and can help lower bad cholesterol levels when consumed in moderation.
What are unsaturated fats?
This food can turn urine a reddish color and is harmless.
What are beets?
This wound management method involves choosing between open or closed systems based on surgical type and drainage volume.
What are wound drains?
An alteration in the middle ear that blocks sound waves before they reach the cochlea of the inner ear.
When placed over wounds, these gel-like dressings occlude the wound, maintain a moist wound bed, have bacteriostatic properties, and stimulate the growth of new granulation tissue.
What is a hydrocolloid dressing?
This is the recommended daily intake of fiber for an adult woman aged 19-50.
What is 25 grams?
Stool culture results typically take this long to be available after a sample is submitted to the lab.
What is 24 to 48 hours?
This classification system for tissue damage progresses through stages and is influenced by risk factors like impaired perfusion and sensory impairment.
What are pressure injuries?
Allows visualization of the back part of the eyeball, including the retina, optic disc, macula, and blood vessels.
What is Ophthalmoscopy?
This is a defect in the eye making objects nearby and faraway look blurry or distorted.
What is an astigmatism?