Nutrition
You should do this before administering feedings
What is verifying feeding tube placement?
Frequent urination that disturbs sleep
3 layers of the skin
What is the epidermis, the dermis, and subcutaneous layer?
When the stimuli and intensity are more than what can be processed.
What is sensory overload?
Affected side crutch with strong leg, followed by unaffected side crutch with affected leg.
What is a 2-point gait?
A calculation made to determine if a person is a healthy weight or needs to lose or gain weight
What is body mass index (BMI)?
Difficulty when urinating that causes a weak trickling stream of urine and a need to strain.
What is urinary hesitancy?
Full-thickness tissue loss, with no bones or tendons exposed.
What is a Stage 3 pressure injury?
Clouding of the lens of the eye that causes the client’s vision to be blurry, hazy, or less colorful.
What is a cataract?
Imbalance where the lungs cannot remove enough carbon dioxide from the body.
What is respiratory acidosis?
This technique involves narrowing the airway to decrease the risk of aspiration when swallowing.
What is the chin-tuck position?
Surgically inserted tube inserted into the kidney that drains urine into an external pouch
What is a nephrostomy?
These numbers add up to tell you the risk of pressure ulcers.
What is Braden Scale?
An accumulation of fluid in the middle ear that can result in conductive hearing loss.
What is otitis media?
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
What are Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Love and Belonging, Esteem and Self Acutalization?
Long term (4-6 weeks) feeding tubes
What is gastrostomy tube and jejunostomy tube?
A diagnostic evaluation of swollen or irritated tissues for ulcers, polyps, or cancer.
What is flexible sigmoidoscopy?
Wound dressing that contains water to provide moisture or draw moisture away from the wound.
What are hydrogels?
Taste cells that contain specific receptors that allow for differentiation between sweet, sour, bitter, salty, or savory flavors.
What is gustatory cells?
When a vesicant drug leaks into the surrounding tissue and can cause tissue necrosis.
What is extravasation?
A condition where the salivary glands don't produce enough saliva, and potentially leading to oral health issues.
What is xerostomia?
Surgical intervention used to break up a kidney stone that is too large to pass
What is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy?
Applying enzymatic agents to wounds to clear dead tissue and debris
What is biological debridement?
Four rectus muscles (superior, inferior, medial, and lateral rectus) and two oblique muscles (superior and inferior).
What is the six extraocular muscles?
Constriction in the upper airways that is heard on inhalation and caused by inflammation of the epiglottis or a viral infection.
What is stridor?