Nursing Process
An important tool used to create diagnoses, plans, and interventions.
What is the Nursing Diagnosis Manual?
The assessment techniques of the musculoskeletal system.
What is inspection, palpation, ROM, and muscle strength testing?
Overly pungent stool can be an indicator of this disease.
What is c-diff?
Some signs and symptoms are cloudy urine, dysuria, and increase in frequency.
What is a UTI?
Bonus!: What is a sign unique to the elderly?
This is the law that governs nursing practice.
What is the NQAC?
The 3 types of nursing diagnoses.
What are problem focused, risk, and health promotion?
Crunching sound of bone on bone.
What is crepitus?
IBS, chron's, and colon cancer can all cause this to appear in stool.
If a woman is menopausal and this happens, she should be evaluated immediately.
What is vaginal bleeding?
Some examples include: assault, battery, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, and defamation of character.
What are intentional torts?
Independent, dependent, collaborative
What are the 3 types of intervention?
One is non-inflammatory, degenerative, and affects men more than women, the other is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects women more than men.
What is osteoarthritis vs rheumatoid arthritis?
If your body is not properly absorbing nutrients, your stool may be this color.
What is white stool?
A man having trouble starting and stopping his urine stream could be a sign of this.
What is prostatic hypertrophy?
These 4 things must be present to count as negligence.
What are duty to care, breach of duty to care, proximate cause, and damages.
Bonus!: What's important about proximate cause?
Specific patient focused goals that must be developed for each problem.
What is planning?
Some effects of this include osteoporosis, atrophy, contractures, ankylosis, diminished cardiac reserve, and orthostatic hypotension.
What is immobility?
Bonus!: Give a definition of osteoporosis.
This color and consistency of stool can indicate an upper GI bleed and needs to be assessed immediately.
What is black tarry stool?
Bedpans, catheters, briefs, and frequent toileting & peri care are all ways to care for this kind of patient.
What is care for patient with urinary incontinence?
If you stop at the scene of an emergency and give medical aid to someone, this act can stop you from potentially being sued.
What is the good samaritan act?
Defining characteristics are motivation and desire. Example: Readiness for enhanced nutrition as evidenced by patient's expressed motivation to improve diet.
What is health enhancement diagnosis?
A few of these risks are confusion, medication, and altered elimination.
What are fall risks for the elderly?
The involuntary muscle movements that move stool through the GI system.
What is peristalsis?
Clear and slightly acidic, little to no protein or glucose, faint aroma.
What are some characteristics of normal urine?
The verification and witnessing that the patient or legal representative has signed the consent form in their presence, and that either one is of legal age and competent enough to sign.
What is the nurse's responsibility for informed consent?