Process that cleans the body of waste due to renal failure
What is dialysis
100
What is the first stage of the grief process?
What is denial
100
Remind resident to not leave range of the monitoring area during ambulation.
What is telemetry use
100
Cleans the body of waste that the kidneys cannot remove due to chronic renal failure
What is dialysis
200
Device that measures a persons blood oxygen level, and pulse rate.
What is pulse oximeter
200
What is the most common type of artificial airway?
What is tracheostomy
200
Hospice care is ordered by a doctor when?
What is 6 months or less to live
200
Perform oral care at-least every two hours
What is tracheostomy care
200
What diseases cause a tracheostomy?
What is cancer, infection, severe injuries, gun shot wounds, and burns.
300
An examination of a body by a pathologist to try and determine the cause of death.
What is autopsy
300
Difficulty breathing
What is dyspnia
300
Name two rights of a dying person?
What is right to have visitors, right to privacy, right to be free from pain, right to honest and accurate information, and the right to refuse treatment.
300
Requires one-on-one care during a power outage.
What is mechanical ventilation care
300
What type of pneumonia can be acquired with long-term mechanical ventilation use?
What is ventilator-acquired pneumonia
400
Care given to people who have serious life threatening diseases.
What is Palliative Care
400
Why are chest tubes inserted?
What is allows full expansion of the lungs
400
What is the last sense to disappear?
What is hearing
400
Put in a semi-fowler’s position or lateral position
What is suctioning a resident
400
Chest tubes could be used when?
What is empyema, hemothorax
500
Latin for "stiffness of death"
What is rigormortis
500
Air or gas in the pleural cavity?
What is pneumothorax
500
Skin discoloration after death
What is livor mortis
500
Always keep the drainage system below the level of the residents chest.
What is chest tube care
500
Conditions that require alternative feeding?
What is coma, cancer, stroke, birth defects, and extreme weakness.