Perioperative
This is the nurse's main priority in the preoperative phase.
What is completion of the preoperative checklist?
In response to an increase in blood glucose, this is released from the beta cells.
What is insulin?
This disorder is characterized by positive Kernig's and Brudzinski's signs, and nuchal rigidity.
What is meningitis?
This type of fracture results in three or more pieces.
What is a comminuted fracture?
It is the most common bacteria that causes a urinary tract infection.
What is E. coli?
This test uses a tuning fork shifted between two positions to assess hearing
What is the Rinne test?
These medication are used in the treatment of glaucoma
What are cholinergics?
This is the processes by which a noxious stimulus, such as a burn, releases of a number of excitatory compounds, which move pain along the pain pathway.
What is Transdcution?
This defines a patient' wishes if he or she cannot express his or her wishes in a medical emergency.
What is an advance directive?
These two hormones are released from the posterior pituitary gland
What are antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin?
Muscle weakness, diplopia, drooping eyelids, and thymus hyperplasia are manifestation of this disorder.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
This is the disorder that cause uric acid crystals to be deposited in the joints, causing pain and inflammation.
What is gout?
This type of incontinence results in small amount of urine loss from sneezing, coughing, or laughing due to weak pelvic floor.
What is stress incontinence?
These are part of the middle ear
What are the tympanic membrane and oval window?
This are the landmarks of the retina
What are the optic disc, the retinal vessels, and the macula?
It is the pain assessment tool that is most appropriate to use when someone is intense pain.
What is the Numeric Rating Scale?
A formal process of identification performed by the patient and healthcare team to identify correct patient, correct procedure, and correct surgical site.
What is a "time-out" or "pause for a cause"?
This is the HgbA1C goal level for a patient with type II diabetes
What is < 7%?
This disease process demonstrated development of plaque in the white matter of the central nervous system.
What is multiple sclerosis?
The nurse instructs the patient to do this to relieve itching under a cast
What is blow cool air from a hair dryer under the cast?
This is the precise measure of the kidney's ability to concentrate urine.
What is osmolality?
This type of hearing loss results from interference with the conduction of sound waves (sound transmission) from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?
it is the loss of accommodative power in the lens with age?
What is Presbyopia?
Substances that reduce the transmission of pain.
What are endorphins?
These are all of your sterile team members.
Who are the surgeon, surgical assistants, scrub nurse?
These manifestations of "moon face", "buffalo hump", and fluid retention indicates this disorder.
What is Cushing syndrome?
This type of headache is characterized by a severe unilateral, non-throbbing headache, facial sweating, and nasal congestion.
What is a cluster headache?
Intense pain, paralysis, pallor, pulselessness, and paresthesia are manifestations of this.
What is compartment syndrome?
This genetic disorder results in excessive growth of fluid-filled cysts of the kidney.
What is polycystic kidney disease?
The nurse should suspect this disorder when the patient experiences tinnitus, unilateral sensorineural hearing loss, and vertigo.
What is Meniere's disease?
This test is often used for clients with macular problems, such as macular degeneration
What is the amsler grid test?
This pain assessment tool is commonly used for adults
What is the numeric scale?
This depolarizing agent has a fast onset and causes muscle twitching prior to relaxation.
What is Succinylcholine?
This is the excess of ADH that results in small amounts of concentrated urine and fluid volume excess.
What is syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone?
This diagnosis is determined when the patient presents with extreme hypertension, severe headache, blurred vision, and diaphoresis.
What is autonomic dysreflexia?
This medication is given to a patient experiencing malignant hypothermia
What is Dantrolene?
This protein is produced by the prostate gland and is considered a tumor marker.
What is prostate-specific antigen?
This is the difference between open angle and closed angle galucoma.
What is IOP has a gradual increase and closed angle has a sudden increase in IOP?
This is the position for the post-op retinal detachment patient.
What is the prone position?
This adverse effect should be monitored for a patient who has been using NSAIDs daily over an extended period.
What is gastrointestinal bleeding?
This occurrence necessitates the intervention of placing a saline-soaked sterile dressings on the open wound to prevent tissue drying and possible infection.
What is evisceration?
This which may cause severe, episodic hypertension and severe, pounding headache; tachycardia; and profuse sweating.
What is pheochromocytoma?
This disease may have a shuffling gait.
What is Parkinson's
A grating sound or sensation when a joint is put through range of motion.
What is crepitus?
This is the substance secreted by the kidney's in response to a decrease in blood pressure.
What is renin?
A client has been diagnosed with hearing loss related to damage of the cochlea. What term is used to describe this condition?
Sensorineural hearing loss
The sudden appearance of light flashes and floaters in front of the affected eye is characteristic of what disease?
With is retinal detachment?
It is the type of pain occurs over several months
What is chronic pain?
The loss of consciousness is the therapeutic effect of this type of anesthesia
What is general anesthesia?
This endocrine disorder may have manifestations of calcium nephrolithiasis, skeletal pain, decreased bone density
What is hyperparathyroidism?
This term describes an acute onset of numbness and tingling in the right leg.
What is Paresthesia?
The assessment of the nurse standing behind the client and asks the client to bend forward at the waist for the nurse to examine the spine curvature.
What is scoliosis?
Returning bicarbonate to the body's circulation,Reabsorbing acid if hydrogen ions are low, and excreting acid in the urine to control acid base balance are the function of this organ.
What is the kidney?
This test assesses bone conduction of sound and is used for assessing unilateral hearing loss.
What is the Weber test?
Its the normal pressure in the anterior chamber of the eye
What is 10-20 mm/Hg?
It is the pain assessment scale that would be best to use with a 5-year-old child
What is the FACES scale?
This type of surgery is performed without a client's informed consent in order to save the client's life.
What is emergent surgery?
Headache, sweating, tremor, pallor, and nervousness are manifestations of this diabetic problem.
What is hypoglycemia?
It is the priority expected outcome in a patient with GBS?
What is maintaining airway patency and gas ex- change?
This is the final stage of fracture repair
What is remodeling?
This is urine output that's less than 50 ml in 24 hours
What is anuria?
This a misperception or illusion of motion, either of the person or the surroundings. Results in a fall.
What is vertigo?
This is the fraction of someone who sees an object from 20 feet away that a person with normal vision sees from 200 feet away.
What is 20/200?
This is the only reliable source for quantifying pain
Who is the Client/Patient?
A biopsy is this type of surgery.
What is diagnostic surgery?
These instructions for diabetic patients include taking their usual insulin or oral hypoglycemic agent dose, then attempt to consume frequent, small portions 6 to 8 times a day. Blood glucose should be tested every 3 to 4 hours.
What are "sick day rules"
It is the cause of a cholinergic crisis?
What are too many anticholinesterase drugs?
This vitamin plays a key role in bone health.
What is vitamin D?
This is the lab which gauges the kidney's glomerular filtration rate.
What is creatinine clearance?
Test used to assessing the client's ability to hear
What is the whisper test?
by having the client follow an object through the six cardinal directions of gaze (up, down, right, left, and both diagonals) the nurse is assessing this
What is extraocular eye function?
it is the type of pain that is a deep, poorly localized, cramping type of pain.
What is visceral pain?
This type of surgery is for a patient who can barely ambulate with a walker at home is having a left total knee replacement.
What is restorative?
This endocrine disorder results in manifestations of muscular weakness, poor appetite, weight loss, gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, and hypotension.
What is Addison's disease?
This test is used to differentiate a cholinergic crisis from a myasthenic crisis.
What is a tensilon test?
These cells are bone destroyers.
What are osteoclasts?
This presents as a dull, constant ache at the costovertebral angle.
What is renal calculi?
These symptoms of headache and a full feeling in the ear before an attack are manifestations of what?
What is meniere's disease?
the condition in which the client can see near objects but has blurred distant vision.
What is nearsightedness or myopia?
This type of pain is a constant “achy” type of pain after abdominal surgery.
What is somatic pain?
It is the treatment of choice for a patient with Malignant Hyperthermia.
What is Dantrolene?
It is the overproduction of this hormone that results in symptoms of acromegaly or gigantism.
What is the growth hormone?
Tremors, rigidity, slow movement, and postural instability are manifestations of this disease.
What is Parkinson's?
A patient who comes to the emergency department(ED) after accidentally puncturing his hand with an automatic nail gun is prone to this condition.
What is osteomyelitis?
Straining the client's urine and Monitoring pain levels closely are done after this procedure
What is a Extracorporeal shockwave lipotripsy (ESWL)
This medication is associated with ototoxicity
What is erythromycin?
When the patient states: "My eyelids were stuck together this morning" the should suspect this condition
What is conjunctivitis?
This is the order of nociceptive processes that occurs to communicate tissue damage to the central nervous system
What is transduction, transmission, perception, and modulation?