Nutrition
These are micronutrients that the body needs.
What are vitamins and minerals?
The second layer of skin under the epidermis.
What is the dermis?
Incorporating a high fiber diet, utilizing stress reduction techniques, ensuring adequate hydration, staying active, adhering to a bathroom schedule and getting regular exercise.
What are lifestyle changes nurses can review with clients to promote usual bowel elimination?
A change in reception and/or perception.
What is a sensory deficit?
Data the nurse obtains through observation and examination.
What is objective data?
These are macronutrients the body needs.
What are proteins, fats, and carbohydrates?
Pressure injuries, delayed wound healing, skin infections, radiation-induced dermatiti.
What are skin concerns for people who have cancer?
Coughing, sneezing, laughing, or physical activity that increases pressure on the bladder, resulting in leakage.
What is stress incontinence?
Amplify sounds but do not help clients interpret what they hear.
What is hearing aids?
Respiratory syncytial virus, shigella, enteric diseases caused by micro-organisms, wound infections, herpes simplex, impetigo, scabies, multidrug resistant organisms are all classified into this type of precaution.
What are contact precautions?
The eating disorder characterized by the fear of being fat and the self perception of being fat.
What is anorexia?
Process of surgically removing dead tissue and other debris that can cause infection.
What is surgical debridement?
Bowel incontinence in Children.
What is encopresis?
Structural eye disorder that causes an increase in intraocular pressure and can lead to blindness.
What is glaucoma?
Central line–associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, surgical-site infections, ventilator-assisted pneumonias.
What are the 4 main Health Care associated Infections?
This organ in the digestive system is responsible for the absorption of water and electrolytes.
What is the large intestine?
Penrose drains, portable wound bulb suction devices, large bottle drain, circular portable wound suction device.
What are the 4 types of drains?
Red meat, broccoli, turnip greens, medications (ibuprofen and aspirin), and vitamins (vitamin C).
What are foods that can lead to a false positive fecal occult blood result?
Provide a private room, limit visitors, and dimming the lighting in the room are all examples of what to do for a client experiencing this.
What is sensory overload?
This visual alteration is characterized by opacity of the lens, blocking light rays into the eyes.
What is cataracts?
The calculation of net carbohydrates is the subtraction of total carbohydrates from these two other categories.
What are fiber and sugar alcohols?
Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, which is commonly found in the nose and on the skin.
What are the most common surgical site infections and where is it usually found?
This type of enema cause a shift of fluids in the body and can cause water toxicity and circulatory overload, they should also not be used in children.
What are tap water enemas?
Prolonged exposure to loud noises, use of ototoxic medications, infectious processes, and older age (presbycusis: decreased ability to hear high-pitched sounds) are all risk factors.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This surgery is the reconstruction of the middle ear structures.
What is tympanoplasty?