Oncology
What does TNM stand for in cancer staging?
Tumor, node, metastasis
This type of advance directive states the client will not receive CPR.
What is Do Not Resuscitate?
This is used to estimate the total body surface area of burns.
What is the rule of nines?
HIV Risk Factors
What is sharing infected equipment, sexual relations with infected persons, workplace exposure, infants born to HIV+ mother?
The leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S.
What is lung cancer?
The goal of this type of care is to improve quality of life for clients with serious illness.
What is palliative care?
This is the first priority in burn client management.
What is airway and breathing?
Most common method of HIV transmission worldwide
What is unprotected sexual contact?
The type of cells that chemotherapy drugs primarily target.
What are rapidly dividing cells?
This type of advance directive designates a person to make medical decisions for another person.
What is a Power of Attorney?
This formula is used for fluid resuscitation in burn management.
What is the parkland formula?
AIDS Defining Criteria
What is AIDS if they have either a CD4+ T-cell count bellow 200 or one AIDS defining condition?
A cocern when admistering vesicant chemotherapy agents.
What is extravasation?
This treatment is for a person with a prognosis of six months or less to live.
What is Hospice care?
This a complication of circumferential burns to the chest.
What is compartment syndrome?
This is crucial for individuals with HIV to prevent viral resistance and improve long-term helath outcomes.
What is adherence to antiretrovial therapy (ART)?
This is a pharmacolgic nursing intervention for managing chemotherapy induced nausea.
What is adminster an antiemetic?
This is the preferred class of medications to manage pain for clients at end-of-life.
What are opioids?
Signed nasal hairs, soot in the sputum, or voice hoarseness.
What is an inhalation injury?
A common opportunistic infection that may be the first sign of AIDS and presents with respiratory symptoms.
Pneumocystis pneumoina