This refers to the nurse anticipating potential complications and intervening appropriately
What is nursing vigilance?
These are the 3 protective immune responses to protect the body from invading pathogens
What is phagocytic, humoral, and cellular
This pictures shows an example of which insufficiency?
What is arterial insufficiency?
This is due to a magnesium deficiency
What is torsade's de pointes
A nutritional tool developed by the USDA
What is MyPlate?
This form of reporting off is evidence based to reduce harm to patients and allows staff and patients to ensure correct information is given to others.
What is bedside shift report?
This disease process results in the break down of connective tissue around the joints, resulting in deformation.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
These are wounds that are large and superficial, usually on the lower legs.
What are venous insufficiency ulcers?
These are a type of electrolyte imbalance:
What is hypocalcemia?
These 3 parts of a plant satisfy the MyPlate requirement of vegetables.
What are leaves, steams, and roots.
This skill is evident when nurses use facts to make timely decisions for very specific patient centered outcomes (seeing the bigger picture).
What are Critical Thinking Skills?
This practice removes known allergens from the home and reduces exposures.
What is avoidance therapy?
These are usually small circular wounds commonly on the toes and the feet.
What are arterial insufficiency ulcers?
These electrolytes have an inverse relationship.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
These labs are most often used to measure protein deficit in adults
What is prealbumin and albumin
These include variables such as demographic, illness, psychosocial, socioeconomic, and education level
What are Social Determinants of Health or
-Factors affecting adherence to a therapeutic regimen?
These important cells of the immune system are responsible for transplant rejections.
What are T cells?
This is occurs when a vesicant infiltrates into the surrounding tissue causing damage
What is extravasation?
What is potassium?
These five components make up a well balanced meal according to the MyPlate guidelines.
What are proteins, grains, fruits, vegetables, and dairy?
This is the process nurses use to perform all nursing care.
What is the Nursing process?
ADPIE
Assess, Diagnosis (nursing!), Planning (Goals), Interventions, Evaluation
A transfusion reaction is an example of this hypersensitivity.
What is cytotoxic?
Healthcare providers should use extra caution when moving the elderly, especially in bed, to prevent these types of injuries.
What are friction and sheer injuries?
When this electrolyte becomes unbalanced, many neurological symptoms may become present.
What is sodium?
This is a formula that provides complete nutrition for patients who cannot take in nutrients through the GI tract
What is total parenteral nutrition?