Nutrition
Carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water.
What are the basic nutrients the body requires?
25 to 38 g/day
What is the recommended dietary daily fiber requirement for maininating bowel regularity?
System used to check lesions and detect possible skin cancer.
What is the ABCDE system?
The ability to receive and interpret sensory impressions through sight (visual), hearing (auditory), touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), taste (gustatory), and movement or position (kinesthetic).
What is sensory perception?
Bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
What pathogen is the most common type of pathogen?
a cycle of binge eating followed by purging (vomiting, using diuretics or laxatives, exercising excessively, fasting)
What is bulimia nervosa?
An opening created in the abdominal wall that allows for fecal matter to pass, due to bowel disorders.
What is an ostomy?
Serous fluid-filled, smaller than 1 cm; blister, herpes simplex, varicella
What is a vesicle?
Cognitive (decreased ability to learn, disorientation), affective (restlessness, anxiousness), or perceptual (decreased coordination, decreased color perception).
What are manifestations of sensory deprvation?
Also known as isotonic dehydration, is a lack of both water and electrolytes, causing a decrease in circulating blood volume.
What is hypovolemia?
Enteral feeding is a method of providing nutrients to clients who cannot consume foods orally but whose GI tract is functioning.
What is enteral feeding?
The primary organs of urinary elimination are the kidneys.
What are the primary organs of urinary elimination?
Inflammatory stage, proliferative stage, maturation stage.
What are the three stages of wound healing?
Vision loss, conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, taste deficit, neurologic deficits, and stroke
What are contributing factors of changes in sensory perception?
Specific adaptive immunity.
What type of immunity allows the body to make antibodies in response to a foreign organism (immunoglobulins: IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM)?
Dairy products and eggs are appropriate for a low-residue diet.
What food should a nurse who is caring for a client who requires a low-residue diet expect on a client's meal tray?
Childbirth and gravity weaken the pelvic floor, putting clients at risk for prolapse of the bladder.
What puts the client at risk for prolapse of the bladder?
Decalcification of bones, leading to loss of bone mass and height, increasing risk for osteoporosis
What is an expected change in the musculoskeletal system with aging?
Antibiotics, diuretics, NSAIDs, chemotherapeutic agents.
What are ototoxic medications?
20% to 25% of sleep time.
What percentage of sleep accounts for Stage 1 NREM sleep time?
The priority nursing assessment before initiating an enteral feeding is to verify proper placement of the NG tube.
What should a nurse who is preparing to instill an enteral feeding for a client who has an NG tube in place highest assessment priority be?
A new bladder created by the surgeon using the ileum that attaches to the ureters and urethra; the client learns to void by straining the abdominal muscles.
What allows the client to maintain continence?
Relief of pressure and providing of optimal nutrition and hydration.
What is the primary focus of prevention and treatment of pressure injury?
Reinforcing of verbal with nonverbal communication (gestures, body language)
What is patient-centered for a client that has aphasia?
Contact, droplet, airborne, and vector borne
What are the modes of transmission of pathogens?