Nutrition
These provide most of the body's energy and fiber.
What are carbohydrates?
Most adults make 1,000 to 2,000 mL/day of this.
What is urine?
This type of drainage is watery and looks pale and pink due to a mixture of red and clear fluid.
What is serosanguineous drainage?
The nurse should reduce lights and noises, provide orientation cues (calendars, clocks), and limit visitors when the patient is experiencing this.
Sensory overload
Right task, right circumstance, right person, right communication, and right supervision
What are the 5 rights of delegation?
These include nutrients such as calcium, iron, potassium or sodium.
What are minerals?
These are dilated blood vessels in the rectal wall from difficult defecation, pregnancy, liver disease, and heart failure.
What are hemorrhoids?
This healing process has little or no tissue loss, the edges are approximated, as with a surgical incision, and heals rapidly.
What is primary intention?
Snellen and Rosenbaum tests evaluate this.
What is visual acuity?
Cotton should be used instead of wool, nylon, or synthetics when this is in use.
What is supplemental oxygen?
This diet consists of foods that are low in fiber and easy to digest like dairy products, eggs, ripe bananas.
What is a soft/low-residue diet?
This is an intestinal obstruction caused by reduced motility.
What is paralytic ileus?
This type of dressing is mostly water, promotes autolytic debridement and cooling, and sometimes needs a secondary dressing.
What is a hydrogel dressing?
This is a loss of the eye’s ability to focus on close objects due to decreased elasticity of the lens.
What is presbyopia?
These are nonadherent dressings that conform to the wound’s shape and absorb exudate
What are alginate dressings?
Exclusively breast milk or formula should be consumed during this age.
0-6 months
This occurs with straining/bearing down and is associated with bradycardia, hypotension, and syncope.
What is the valsalva maneuver?
In this stage of wound healing, lost tissue is replaced with connective or granulated tissue and collagen.
What is the proliferative stage?
Antibiotics, diuretics, NSAIDs, and chemotherapeutic agents often have this side effect.
What is ototoxicity?
This fluid imbalance will cause dyspnea, crackles, hypertension, and seizures
What is overhydration?
Poor wound healing is a complication of this nutrition insufficiency.
What is poor protein intake?
This electrolyte imbalance is associated with muscle weakness, lethargy, swollen red tongue.
What is hypernatremia?
Protruding organs should be covered with this if evisceration occurs.
What are sterile towels or dressings soaked with sterile normal saline solution?
This type of hearing test is done by placing the base of a vibrating tuning fork on the midline vertex of the patient’s head
What is the Weber test?
This post-surgical complication can present with pallor or swelling and distention and is at greatest risk 24 to 48hr after the procedure.
What is a post-surgical internal hemorrhage?