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A position that allows the nurse to examine the rectal area
What is Sims?
Occurring after a meal
What is Postprandial?
Be careful when measuring individual doses of cough syrup found in this In this room
What is the Stock Supply Room?
A scale best suited to measure pain of a client with a language barrier and no interpreter available.
What is the Wong-Baker faces pain scale?
Oxygen and carbon dioxide being exchanged at the alveolar level
What is Respiration?
An internal process in which a cascade of hormones result in the increased reabsorption of sodium in the kidneys.
What is the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System?
This non-invasive method is used to determine post-void residual urine volume when treating urinary outflow dysfunction.
What is a bladder scan?
A scale used to determine brain status based on a summation of scores for eye, verbal, and motor responses
This diagnostic test evaluates the average amount of glucose in the blood over the last 2 to 3 months
What is Hemoglobin A1C?
the proportion of a drug that enters the circulation and is able to have an effect
What is Bioavailability?
A complex, chronic pain caused by the abnormal processing of sensory input. Described as "Burning, pins and needles, itching, or numbness". This type of pain is expected to manifest in a diabetic patient.
What is Neuropathic pain?
Bluish coloration of skin when a patient experiences hypoxia
What is Cyanosis?
An antihypertensive drug that inhibits the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System and can result in kidney damage.
What are ARBS (Angiotensin II Receptive Blockers)?
A client complains of pain from a bloated belly caused by gas, this type of enema may provide relief.
What is Carminative?
Soft high-pitched popping or bubbling that can be auscultated upon inspiration
What are Crackles?
A condition occurring when the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas
What is Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus?
Rate of medicinal distribution is influenced by local blood flow, permeability of capillaries and this
What is Protein Binding Capacity?
The fourth and final phase of nociception changes pain perception by facilitating or inhibiting pain signals through the endogenous system and gate control theory.
What is Modulation?
Procedure allowing direct visualization of the respiratory tract down to the secondary bronchi
What is a Bronchoscopy?
The hypertensive drug of choice for diabetic and renal failure patients.
What are Loop Diuretics?
This condition occurs when a client has bladder control, but cannot use the toilet in time.
What is functional incontinence?
The landmark in which a nurse can auscultate the heart at 2nd intercostal space, right sternal border
medical term for excessive or extreme hunger
What is Polyphagia or Hyperphagia?
Medications are absorbed from the GI tract and circulate through the liver before they reach systemic circulation. This is the reason oral medications are formulated with a higher concentration than parenteral meds.
What is the First Pass Effect?
This vascular reaction/process is cause for contraindication in the use of heat therapy on an open wound.
What is Vasodilation?
a type of wheezing heard on inspiration and has a high-pitched whistling or gasping sound
What is Stridor?
Resistance to flow the ventricle must overcome to open semilunar valves
What is Afterload?
“The straight catheter is correctly inserted, but nothing is happening.” This maneuver provides manual pressure that stimulates voiding.
What is the Crede maneuver?
Dilation of the pupils that can be caused from medications or a head injury
Metformin is in this medication class that decreases glucose production in the liver and increases insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle.
What are Biguanides?
an additive effect; the effect of both drugs together is greater than the individual effects
What is Synergistic?
A medically prescribed pain management technique that delivers bursts of electricity to the skin and underlying nerves, stimulating A-delta sensory fibers.
What is a TENS Unit?
When using this device, the patient should purse lips firmly around the mouthpiece, inhale slowly and deeply, and hold inspiration for at least 3 seconds
What is an Incentive Spirometer?
A class of anti-hypertensive drugs contraindicated in patients suffering from asthma, COPD and bradycardia.
What are Beta Blockers?
This laxative group relieves constipation by increasing the water content of the feces, which results in distention, peristalsis, and evacuation.
What are hyperosmotic?