BASIC NURSING
Surgical Asepsis
The nurse-patient relationship.
Legally binding situation
Place the hat in the front of the toilet to get this sample.
What is a urine sample?
Speaking in a lower tone of voice.
What can help older adults hear when you are speaking to them?
The patient will appear dyspneic, crackles will be heard in the lungs, and weight gain.
What are signs of fluid overload?
Begins with the neurological assessment.
What is the head to toe assessment?
Timely notification of any abnormal finding.
What is one legal responsibility of the nurse?
The prevention of infection and promotion of healing for a burn include this.
What is debridement?
Listening, reframing, normalizing responses, and working to develop trust.
What are 4 types of therapeutic communication?
Insensible fluid loss.
What is the amount of body fluid lost daily that is difficult to measure?
Potassium abnormalities are the most likely culprit.
What electrolyte is most likely to cause cardiac arrhythmia?
Clear, concise, timely, measurable documentation.
What type of documentation should the nurse complete in a patients chart?
These combined builds and repairs cells and tissue.
What does proteins, minerals, iron, and fat combine to accomplish?
3 Types of nonverbal therapeutic communication by the nurse.
What type of communication does the nurse provide when doing bed bath-bed pan-cath insertion?
Rigors, sudden memory changes
What infection symptoms might you see in an older adult?
Is what ADPIE stands for.
What stands for assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation in nursing?
Request clear instructions and a demonstration of what is expected.
What should the nurse do if asked to perform a procedure they have never done?
Providing sufficient rest periods to promote optimal air exchange.
What nursing intervention is necessary with a patient who has a worsening respiratory disease?
The patient can teachback.
What is one way the nurse knows that the patient understood teaching?
Kidney failure, cirrhosis, and sepsis may all do this.
Out of these, which patients are most likely to 3rd space?
Four types of stages of growth and development.
What is Trust vs Mistrust/autonomy v shame/initiative v guilt/industry v inferiority/identity v role confusion
Malefience.
What is the act of doing evil or harm?
The respiratory system.
What system is responsible for oxygenation?
Panic, fear, shortness of breath, heart palpitations can be a result.
What can moderate anxiety cause in a person?
Pain, pallor, paresthesia, pulselessness, and paralysis.
What are the 5 P's that have the nurse suspect compartment syndrome?