Unit 1
Patient goals should be this when being designed.
What is measurable?
What you are looking for during a physical assessment when you are looking at the size and shape of body parts.
What is symmetry?
The types of fluids to avoid when on a bladder training program
Fluids with alcohol and caffeine
The first signs of hypoxia.
What is anxiety and restlessness?
The insertion site for a central venous device.
What is the jugular vein?
The phenomenon when you live with a lot of cats with stinky cat boxes that you no longer smell it.
What is adaptation?
Including a patient's partner will help ensure this during education sessions.
What is compliance?
The best way to complete a accurate medication list.
What is have the medication bottles?
The act of bladder contraction and the need to void
What is micturition reflex?
The difficulty of mucus removal occurs when a patient includes this in their lifestyle.
What is smoking?
A autologous blood transfusion.
What is the patient donates their own blood?
A way for a nurse to assess a patient in spiritual distress include this.
What is identifying the life factors that are affecting a patient's spiritual belief system?
"Everything is going to be okay" is an example of this.
What cliche?
Remembering human anatomy, which lobe of the lung can be heard only anteriorly?
What is the right middle lobe?
A three way catheter is used for this.
What is continuous bladder irrigation?
When a chest tube has been disconnected from the drainage unit the nurse should do this.
What is place the end of the tube in sterile water?
When assessing a patient with third spacing you should expect to see this.
What is swelling of the extremities?
The last sense a person looses in the death and dying process.
What is hearing?
Situation, background, assessment, and recommendation.
What is the SBAR?
What is a Doppler?
The color urine can be after taking levodopa.
What is brown or black?
The technique taught when measuring peak expiratory flow rate.
What is forcefully exhaling into a mouthpiece?
The average amount of fluid lost by the GI tract in 24 hours.
What is 300 ml?
Vomiting before a test due to stress is this type of adaptive response.
What is mind body interaction?
Restoring health, maintaining/promoting health, and preventing illness
What are reasons to educate patients on positive lifestyle changes?
The best position to assess lung sounds.
What is high fowlers?
Hydronephrosis
(break down each piece f this word)
What is "water on the kidney" due to buildup of urine
Class of medication that opens constricted airways.
What are bronchodilators?
The way a patient with severe pancreatitis gets nutrition.
What is parenteral nutrition?
The prolonged stress for caring for a loved one is called this.
What is caregiver burden?
Before touching a patient, it is always important to do these two things.
What is asking permission and explaining what you are doing?
Flesh colored, soft, pointed, moist papule in a cauliflower like patch near the vaginal opening.
What is human papillomavirus?
What position can you place a patient in for foley insertion if they cannot tolerate being on their back?
What is lying the patient on their side?
The mechanism that results in inhalation.
What is the diaphragm contracting?
You will assess this when a patient's heart is not pumping effectively causing fluid volume excess.
What is edema and crackles in the lungs?
What illness is associated with long term stress?
What is cardiovascular disease?
A person having lack of understanding, feeling threatened, seeing no benefits to change, and being afraid of increased responsibility are possible consequences when this happens.
What is change?
When the lower extremity turns white when raised above the heart level.
What is chronic arterial insufficiency?
Why would a indwelling catheter be placed other than for urinary retention?
To manage pressure injuries.
A disease that can cause decreased lung compliance.
What is emphysema?
When accessing the vein what is the most important "at risk for" diagnosis?
What is at risk for infection?
This type of patient is three times more likely to suffer from depression.
What are victims of sexual assault?
The two most important ways to monitor a patient's response to education.
What is documentation and evaluating the patient's response?
When a patient is unable to sit up at night without experiencing shortness of breath.
What is paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.
A 24-hour urine collection is for this.
What is to evaluate kidney function?
The first thing you do when a patient is having difficulty coughing up thick sputum.
What is increase fluid intake?
Making sure that the donor and recipient blood specimens are compatible.
What is cross matching of blood?
Nonresponsiveness, mottling of the extremities, slow/thready pulse, and lower extremity edema are all signs of this.
What is end of life?