Mind, Body, and Soul: Mental Health
The plan of care for the client experiencing this eating disorder should include the priority nursing intervention of rewarding weight gain by increasing privileges.
What is anorexia?
This medication is used in the reversal of Opiates.
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
The failure of the hard palates to fuse at the midline during the 7th to 12th weeks of gestation forming a passageway between the nasopharynx and the nose.
What is Cleft Palate?
Another name for a difficult labor.
What is dystocia?
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
What is culture?
The nurse recognizes the need to assess fluid and electrolyte balance for a client experiencing the binge-purge cycle in this eating disorder.
What is bulimia?
Alcoholic clients often use this defense mechanism to reduce their feelings of guilt.
What is denial?
Characterized by an increase in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain.
What is Hydrocephalus?
This central nervous system depressant may be given via IV infusion to prevent seizures in a client admitted with severe preeclampsia.
What is Magnesium Sulfate?
A worldwide outbreak of an infectious disease.
What is a pandemic?
The priority nursing assessment is the blood level the drug to prevent toxicity when this medication is prescribed for a bipolar client experiencing a depressive episode.
What is Lithium?
The nurse is ordered to administer this legal synthetic opioid to a client addicted to illicit opioids after a major surgery.
What is Methadone?
To prevent this neural tube birth defect a mother should take folic acid 0.4mg per day before becoming pregnant and take the supplement until the 12th week of pregnancy.
What is Spina Bifida?
The most accurate and optimal method to measure blood loss with placenta previa or post-partum hemorrhage.
What is counting/weighing perineal pads?
A sudden catastrophic event in which people are injured, killed, and/or property is destroyed.
What is a disaster?
The bipolar episode in which the client is easily stimulated, experiences sleep pattern disturbances, and is excitable.
What is manic/mania?
A life-threatening, yet reversible, medical emergency that arises from thiamine deficiency. Symptoms include: confusion, gait ataxia, and abnormal involuntary eye movements.
What is Wernicke's Encephalopathy?
What is Tetralogy of Fallot?
What is abruptio placentae? (complete premature detachment of the placenta)
This color of disaster triage tag would be given to a client with a fractured arm with bone exposed.
What is Yellow, class II: Major Injury
The client taking antipsychotic medications should be instructed to discontinue in this manner to avoid serious adverse effects.
What is dose-tapering?
This addictive drug may cause the dependent user to think that they have the ability to fly.
What are Hallucinogens?
The multisystem disease in which thick, viscid secretions affect the respiratory, digestive, integumentary, and reproductive systems.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
An infection after childbirth resulting in a fever of 100.4 F or higher after the first 24 hours and for at least 2 days during the first 10 days postpartum.
What is puerperal sepsis?
The deliberate spread of pathogenic organisms into a community to cause widespread illness, fear, and panic.
What is Bioterrorism?