Pain/Communication
biotransformation occurs here
What is the liver?
Chain of infection is broken when the nurse washes her hands?
What is mode of transmission?
pathophysiology of wheezes
What is bronchial constriction, decreased airway diameter from inflammation, and blockage from mucous production
The nurse is gathering data on a patient. Respirations of 16
What is objective data
Electrolyte imbalance expected with a diuretic
What is Potassium?
acute mental disorder with symptoms of confusion, disorientation, and restlessness
What is delirium?
A patient is experiencing oliguria. Which action should the nurse perform first?
What is assess for bladder distention.
Auscultate before palpate
What is the abdomen?
The primary purpose of a nursing diagnosis is to:
Recognize the client’s response to an illness or situation
excessive carbon dioxide
What would you expect a patient with respiratory acidosis?
The palliative team’s primary obligation to a patient in severe pain
What is enhancing the patient’s quality of life
Medications that cause constipation?
What are opioids?
Great trochanter, thumb pointing to groin, and anterior superior iliac spine are landmarks for which type of injections?
What are ventrogluteal?
This step of the nursing process is being used when the nurse specifies a goal or an outcome
What is planning
What is a CBC?
complete blood count
What is the name of the pain when you can still feel an amputated limb?
phantom limb or neuropathic pain
Founder of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Where to assess skin turgor.
What is the sternum
A patient has reduced muscle strength following a left-sided stroke and is at risk for falling. This intervention is most appropriate for the nursing diagnostic statement Risk for falls
Assist patient into and out of bed every 4 hours or as tolerated.
Your patient is breathing rapidly, his body is attempting to
get rid of excess carbon dioxide
short term pain
acute chronic
Factors that influence wound healing
What are nutrition, tissue perfusion, infection, and age?
What is the earliest and most sensitive indication of altered cerebral function?
What is Change in level of consciousness
excessive WBC in urine could cause
What are fever and chills?
excretion of hydrogen and bicarbonate ions is controlled by
What is the kidneys