Elimination
A bacterium that can cause diarrhea.
What is clostridium difficile?
Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is the steps of the Nursing Process?
Age, recent exercise, hormone fluctuations, circadian rhythm, stress, and the environment.
What are factors that can affect body temperature?
Immunosuppressed, trauma, surgery, chronically ill, and the elderly.
What are examples of a susceptible host in the chain of infection?
Weakness, instability, anorexia, elimination alterations, decreased muscle tone, circulatory stasis, and skin breakdown.
What are the effects of immobility?
A surgically created means for passing stool waste.
What is a colostomy?
The organized and ongoing appraisal of a patients well being.
What is assessment?
The upper or lower extremities.
What are sites for assessing blood pressure?
Hand hygiene, precautions and isolation, personal protective equipment, immunization, medical asepsis, surgical asepsis, disinfection, and sterilization.
What are interventions to decrease the risk of infectious illness?
Impaired immobility, risk for fall, and activity intolerance.
What are possible nursing diagnoses directly associated with immobility?
Diet, physical activity, psychological factors, personal habits, posture, pain, pregnancy, surgery, anesthesia, and medications.
What are factors that affect bowel elimination?
Life span, gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, disability, and morphology.
What are diversity considerations?
Movement of air into the lungs.
What is inspiration?
Infections acquired while the patient is receiving treatment in a healthcare facility.
What are health care-associated infections (HAI) or nosocomial infections?
Right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right patient, and right documentation.
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
Inspection, auscultation, and palpation.
What are skills used to complete an abdominal assessment?
Tasks that are within the nursing scope of practice that a nurse can undertake without a primary provider/physician order.
What are independent nursing interventions?
General term for a group of disorders characterized by impaired airflow in the lungs.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD?
Infections that develop and run their course rapidly.
What is an acute infection?
Medication administered by injection into tissue, muscle or a vein.
What are parenteral medications?
Anuria
What is the failure of the kidneys to produce or excrete urine?
The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise, patient values and needs, and the delivery of cost-effective healthcare.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
A non-invasive ultrasound that uses sound waves to visualize the heart structure and evaluate the function of the heart.
What is an echocardiogram or EKG?
Overprescribing antibiotics, prescribing antibiotics for non-bacterial infections, incomplete courses of antibiotics.
What are factors that contribute to antibiotic resistance?
Easiest and most convenient way to administer medication.
What is oral administration of medication?