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The study of the parts of a human body and the way the body works
What is Anatomy and Physiology?
This assessment skill is necessary to check the pressure of the circulatory system as the heart beats.
What is blood pressure?
A patient who is having any surgery should always receive teaching on this in the preoperative stage.
What is cough and deep breathe leg exercises and incentive spirometer ?
The pacemaker of the heart
What is the sinoatrial node?
Broth jello ginger ale and water
What are items on a clear liquid diet?
The study of microorganisms
What is microbiology?
Nurses typically have to start these many times in a shift. They are threaded into veins to allow access to the blood system.
What is IV?
Early ambulation helps reduce these three potential complications after surgery
What are DVT, Constipation (ileus) and pneumonia?
Chamber of the heart that has the greatest work will load and usually falls first as a result.
What is the left ventricle?
High levels of LDL indicate risk for
What is coronary artery disease?
The study of how humans think and feel.
What is psychology?
The nurse will draw blood gasses, continuously monitor the heart, lung and kidney function in a high stress critical environment.
What is a critical care nurse?
Fever chills presence at purulent drainage warm red and tender around incision site
What are signs and symptoms of infection at surgical site?
Small battery operated device it helps the heartbeat in regular rhythm
What is a pacemaker?
The reversal agent of opioid medications?
What is Naloxone?
The study of the chemical makeup of medications and the effect on the human body.
What is pharmacology?
The nurse will assist a woman have a baby and care for the newborn. It’s high tempo area and when it’s good it’s really good when it’s bad it’s always really bad.
What is a labor and delivery nurse?
They are your priority assessments for any patient in the post op anesthesia care
What is ABC: Airway, breathing ,circulation?
What you do if you find a patient that is unresponsive and has no pulse
What is call a code and start CPR?
Small mesh tube that is placed in an artery to maintain restored blood flow
What is a stent?
The study of organizations, processes, policies and management of employees?
What is Leadership?
The type of treatment alleviates symptoms but does not cure the patient's condition.
What is palliative care?
1000 milliliter fluid bolus given in PACU, cough, course lung sounds, +2 edema in lower extremities
What is hypervolemia? (or fluid overload)
Decrease the heart rate and cardiac output by blocking the effects of adrenaline or catecholamines
What are beta blockers ?
This is what you measure when assessing the range of an epidural effect.
What are dermatomes?