Musculoskeletal
The orthopedic office nurse provides care to a patient who sustained an injury after a fall on an icy patch of sidewalk a year ago. The patient states, “I still cannot move my knee well because of the pain and swelling.” Which diagnostic test should the nurse anticipate will be prescribed by the health care provider?
What is Arthroscopy?
A client with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is experiencing increased dyspnea. What oxygen delivery system would be most appropriate for the nurse to administer oxygen to this client?
Non-rebreather mask
Patients often present with drooping of the eyelids (ptosis), facial expression becomes mask-like. After long conversations the patients voice may fade. Falls occurs because of weakness of the arm and leg muscles. Progressive and extreme muscle weakness.
Myasthenia Gravis
The nurse provides care to an older adult patient who sustains a hip fracture. The patient asks why the surgeon recommends an open reduction internal fixation. What response by the nurse is appropriate?
What is this procedure allows for early ambulation while bone heals?
The nurse is the first to come upon a patient who has fallen off a bicycle. The patient is moaning and guarding the right shoulder. The nurse notes that the patient has multiple areas of scrapes on the humerus, acromion process, and clavicular area. There is a reddish area of ecchymosis to the mid-clavicular area. Which type of injury does the nurse suspect?
What is a displaced fracture?
A client with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is experiencing increased dyspnea. Which oxygen delivery system would be most appropriate for the nurse to administer oxygen to this client?
Venturi mask
A chronic progressive degenerative disease that affects the myeline sheath of the neurons in the CNS. The affected nerves become inflamed and edematous, which interrupts impulses to the muscle. Name the condition?
Multiple Sclerosis
What hormone controls blood glucose during stress, increases the breakdown of fats, and inhibits the release of insulin?
What is epinephrine
The nurse witnesses a patient fall on the sidewalk and notes that there is an immediate loss of range of motion of the shoulder, and a joint deformity has occurred. The patient instructs the nurse to "just pull it back into place because it hurts so much." Which is the proper nursing intervention at this time?
What is, Immobilize the joint, apply ice and call for help?
Name the specific condition that is exhibited by these S/S: dyspnea, orthopnea, frothy sputum, dry hacking cough, unexplained fatigue
Left-Sided Heart Failure
A client with COPD is prescribed a long-acting beta-agonist (LABA). The nurse educates the client that the primary purpose of this medication is what?
What is, to improve long-term lung function.?
Too much medication, S-Salivation. L-lacrimation, U-urinary incontinence D-Diarrhea G-gastrointestinal cramping E-Emesis. Patients ability to talk or swallow is impaired. What is the name of this complication and it's antidote?
Cholinergic Crisis and the antidote is atropine.
Which type of diabetes is due to the development of resistance to endogenous insulin?
What is Type 2
The nurse provides care for a patient who is 5-days postoperative for a total hip arthroplasty. The patient is newly diagnosed with a urinary tract infection secondary to the indwelling urinary catheter. The patient reports increased pain at the hip that is not managed with opioids. The nurse collects additional data, finding that the site is reddened, warm to the touch, and moderately edematous. Which is the possible medical diagnosis for this patient?
What is Osteomyelitis?
Name three clinical manifestations of pericarditis.
severe chest pain, radiating pain to the trapezius muscle, fever, malaise, tachycardia, (In bacterial:high fevers, shaking chills, night sweats)
A client presents with fever, productive cough, and pleuritic chest pain. The nurse anticipates which diagnostic test to most appropriately confirm pneumonia?
Chest x-ray
(capitis), (corporis), (pubis).. Crablike appearance, transmitted by sexual contact and sometimes by infested bed linens.
Pediculosis aka lice infestation.
Pain, Paresthesia, Poikilothermia, Pallor, Paralysis, and Pulselessness; these are the key clinical signs used to diagnose
What is compartment syndrome?
How high must a systole BP reading be for a client to be diagnosed with a hypertensive crisis? and what is the antidote?
180 antidote: nitroprusside
A client with a history of asthma presents with wheezing and shortness of breath unresponsive to initial albuterol treatment. What should the nurse anticipate as the next appropriate action?
What is Administer intravenous corticosteroids?
Most people don't realize they have it until they fracture a bone, have vertebral compression fractures, loss of height, or develop forward curvature of the spine. Some patients can't find clothes that fit comfortably anymore? What am I?
Osteoporosis