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Assessment (signs & symptoms)
Etiology of disease
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100
This is the inability to focus on close objects typical onset with aging.
What is presobyopia?
100
The nursing intervention for this disease would include teaching the patient to avoid organ meats like liver and kidneys.
What is the diet for gout?
100
This assessment is a neurologic evaluation, including best motor response, best verbal response, and best eye response. A score below 8 commonly is a definition of a coma.
What are the three major areas of assessment with the Glasgow coma score?
100
After this procedure the primary concern is maintaining proper alignment, usually by utilizing abduction foam wedge. Additional assessment includes incentive spirometer for prevention of pneumonia, incision site for infection, and antiembolism stockings.
What is assessment data that should be collected on a patient post hip ORIF
100
A distended bladder or impaction are often triggers for this condition.
What is autonomic dysreflexia.
200
This is the medical term for nearsightedness.
What is myopia?
200
Nursing intervention with this condition requires immediate splinting and elevation to prevent edema of the affected part.
What is the immediate management of any fracture?
200
This is what causes the signs and symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
What is demyelination of nerve sheath.
200
Sjogren's syndrome, also known as dry eyes, is associated with this eye condition, particularly when the patient also complains of dry mouth.
What is keratoconjuctivitis sicca?
300
This is the medical term for agents that cause the pupil to constrict.
What is miotic?
300
The immediate nursing intervention with this eye injury is to wash with water for 15-20 minutes and then seek medical care.
What is priority eye care after a chemical burn?
300
This condition is a possible risk 3-4 days after a head injury and the assessment of change in level of consciousness is an alert assessment.
What is hematoma?
300
The three vital functions are to perform motion, maintain posture, and the production of heat.
What is the function of muscle contraction?
400
This organ is known as the "bridge" and it is responsible for sending impulses to the structures that are inferior and superior to it.
What is the Pons?
400
The nurse will instruct the patient after this surgery to remain in bed for 24 hours, stay flat with the operative side facing upward to maintain the position of the graft and the prothesis. Turning the patient is avoided after this procedure.
What is the position the patient needs to maintain after a stapendectomy?
400
A patient has fallen and just hit his head, the nurse will first assess this system.
What is the airway patency.
400
This condition occurs when there is progressive development of arterial vessel compression and reduced blood supply to an extremity. The usual treatment is a fasciotomy.
What is compartment syndrome?
400
This is one of the four options for treating detached retina. This is a surgical technique where the surgeon may place an encircling band over the implant if there are multiple retinal breaks.
What is scleral buckling technique?
500
This is the nerve (X) that serves organs in the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the vagus nerve?
500
The nursing intervention for this condition is to have the patient lie immobile and hold head in one position until the symptoms of this condition subside.
What is a priority care of a patient with vertigo?
500
This deadly condition often follows very quickly in a patient who has Guillian Barre syndrome.
What is respiratory failure.
500
This disorder is typically observed in the middle aged or older person and is the result of the outflow of aqueous humor being decreased through the trabecular meshwork. The drainage channels become blocked and cause this progressively worsening condition.
What is open angle glaucoma?
500
This assessment finding would indicate a need for possible glaucoma testing.
What is eye pain, peripheral vision loss, maladaption to darkness, and halos seen around lights possibly a sign of ?