Care for Medical Surgical Patients
Federal health insurance program for people 65 or older and people younger than 65 who have end-stage renal disease or are permanently and totally disabled.
The normal pH of the body fluids.
What is 7.35 to 7.45?
Nursing care for patients with herpes zoster (shingles).
What is pain management and prevention of secondary infection?
Necrosis of the myocardium as a result of interruption of the blood supply to the area
What is myocardial infarction?
Bowel obstruction resulting from the blockage of the lumen of the bowel.
What is mechanical obstruction?
Provides health coverage for some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
Normal PaCO2 value.
What is 35 to 45 mm Hg?
An infection of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue often caused by Staphylococcus
What is cellulitis?
Telemetry
What is continuous monitoring of cardiac rate and rhythm?
How hepatitis A is transmitted
What is fecal-to-oral route, poor sanitation and contaminated water/shellfish, often from infected food
Nursing care that involves being aware of and attending to the physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients.
What is holistic care?
Normal plasma bicarbonate level (HCO3)
What is 22 to 26 mEq/L?
Scale used to identify pressure ulcer risk.
What is the Braden scale?
Pain in the lower extremities with walking that diminishes with rest - symptom of PAD.
What is intermittent claudication?
Vaccines are available for these two strains of hepatitis
What are hepatitis A and B?
Safety concern for patients at risk for orthostatic hypotension.
What is risk for falls?
pH of body fluids less than 7.35
What is acidosis?
First priority in the emergency management of a burn patient.
What is maintenance of an airway?
Outpouching of the wall of an artery
What is an aneurysm?
Acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the stomach
What is gastritis?
Nursing interventions to prevent respiratory complications related to immobility.
What is deep breathing and coughing exercises every 2 hours, use of incentive spirometer, encourage fluid intake, turn every 2 hours, auscultate lung sounds every shift?
pH of body fluid above 7.45.
What is alkalosis?
An incision into burn eschar to relieve pressure from burns that encircle an extremity of constrict chest movement.
What is an escharotomy?
Antiplatelet agent most commonly prescribed for patients with PAD and stable CAD.
What is aspirin?
Drug induced ulcers are most commonly caused by
What are aspirin, NSAIDs, biphosphonates, alcohol, and glucocorticoids?