Show:
ANS
MedSurg
Pharmacology
OB
Pediatrics
100
A patient's incision is dry, clean and intact. The incision is healing by ___________________.
What is first intention?
100
A common early sign of cardogenic shock.
What is mild tachycardia?
100
Nursing action done before giving an antihypertensive.
What is check blood pressure?
100
3 most common causes of postpartum hemorrhage.
What is uterine atony, lacerations, and retained placenta?
100
The degree of burn that causes epidermis and some dermis to be destroyed with blistering and pain.
What is 2nd degree?
200
New tissue that looks red and semi-transparent that grows to fill in a wound.
What is granulation tissue?
200
A severe potential surgical complication from an aortic aneurysm repair.
What is hemorrhage?
200
Nursing action performed when a patient scheduled to take digoxin has a heart rate less than 60.
What is hold the digoxin and call the prescriber?
200
Herpes simplex present on onset of labor indicates what type of delivery.
What is cesarean section?
200
An abnormal protrusion of a part of an organ through a weak spot or other abnormal opening in a body wall.
What is hernia?
300
A resistant strain of staphylococcus aureus.
What is MRSA?
300
Where the electrical conduction of the heart begins.
What is SA node
300
Characteristics of a positive PPD.
What is skin red and very hard for 12 mm around injection site.
300
The most important infection control precaution to teach a new breastfeeding mother.
What is good hand hygiene before breastfeeding?
300
Medical terminology for stye.
What is external hordeolum?
400
The purpose of a wet to dry dressing.
What is debridment?
400
A rapid contraction of the atria yielding a heart rate of 250 - 350 beats per minute and resembling a saw tooth pattern on an ECG.
What is atrial flutter?
400
Characterized by red streak along the length of the vein that feels hard and cordlike on palpation.
What is phlebitis?
400
Your nursing assessment findings in a patient in her third trimester include: proteinuria, low platelet count, elevated AST and ALT, elevated blood pressure. You recognize these findings significant for ______________________.
What is HELLP syndrome?
400
The bacterium that is usually responsible for the infection that is responsible for rheumatic fever.
What is group A beta-hemolytic streptoccocus?
500
The pH value 7.47 indicates the presence of .
What is alkalosis?
500
Heart valve that is more frequently involved with endocarditis.
What is mitral valve?
500
Assessment made when applying topical medication.
What is skin assessment?
500
A priority assessment for a breech delivery.
What is a prolapsed cord?
500
A mother fabricates illness in her child to get attention.
What is munchausen by proxy?