Cardiac Special
The most dangerous side effect of hypo/hyperkalemia
What is Cardiac dysrthymias, leads to cardiac arrest
Definition of euthymia
What is a normal range of mood
For diabetic patients, Name the appropriate range for blood glucose
What is 4-7
Definition of insight
What is reference to both the individual’s awareness of a problem or illness and to the non-delusional understanding of it’s meaning
Definition of Form 2
What is: Justice of the PEACE is notified and police can bring in a person.
4 Symptoms of congestive heart failure
What is shortness of breath, orthopnea, peripheral edema, arrhythmia, weight gain, productive cough, fatigue, cyanosis (low Sp02),confusion
Definition of tangentiality
What is a disturbance in association characterized by the individual becoming side tracked through a chain of really understandable associations, but never returning to the point of the question
Chronicity Concepts (Name 6)
What is stigma, adaption, social isolation, quality of life, body image, uncertainty, powerlessness, sexuality, caregiver burden, self-management
Definition of constricted affect
What is little variation in emotional expression
What is BNP (B-Type Natriuretic Peptide)
Nursing considerations when administering metoprolol and digoxin
What is check BP and HR prior to administration, hold if <100mmHg systolic or HR <50 & check apical pulse for 1 minute, hold if <60bpm. Monitor for digoxin toxicity.
Definition of Judgment
What is the process of forming an opinion or conclusion based on. Information about a situation .and ideally reaching a conclusion that appropriately weighs and recognizes the important elements of an issue
Utilizing the Wounds Canada management document, name 10 health care professionals that should be assembled to address a client's impairment to wound healing
The most serious adverse reactions of Clozaril (name 3)
What is neutropenia, seizure, cardiovascular effects, fever
Difference between hypoglycemic medical directive vs. insulin order set re:CNO authority.
What is hypoglycemic directive is what you follow if conditions are met to patients within the hospital (eg. adult >18 years of age, peripheral blood glucose <4). Insulin order set is orders from a MRP that states what a nurse may do for 1 specific patient if they meet the ordering criteria.
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Expected safe potassium range
Your client's potassium level is 3.5, using potassium protocol, would you administer K+? If yes, how much?What is 3.5-5
What is Yes, 20meq/mmol
Definition of thought blocking
What is abrupt interruption train of thought before a thought or idea is finished.
What is invites critical awareness of that human illness experience.
What is to serve to challenge and dis-rupt often uncontested biomedical knowledge [shifting from disease-related knowledge to human experiential-related knowledge] about heart disease
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The cluster that the histrionic personality disorder falls under & the definition
What is Cluster B
What is seeks attention -wants to be the centre of the universe
Name 5 the PHN criteria via informatics to ensure if the health app/website patient/family is utilizing provides quality health information
A patient with atrial fibrillation and a history of CAD is ordered ASA and apixaban, when you go to administer the medications they ask you why they are receiving both of those medications, name the difference and rationale
What is ASA is an anti-platelet & apixaban is an anticoagulant
Definition of ideas of reference
False personalized interpretations of actual events.the person believes that the behavior or events refer to them when in factb they do not
Difference of AKI vs CKD
What is an abrupt (within hours) decrease in kidney function, which encompasses both injury (structural damage) and impairment (loss of function). (AKI)
What the presence of kidney damage or an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) less than 60 ml/min/1.73 mt2, persisting for 3 months or more, irrespective of the cause. (CKD)
With reference to therapeutic communication...how does assuming BLOCK therapeutic communication
What is....while the experienced nurse often has a strong intuitive sense of the client’s situation, making assumptions denies the individual uniqueness of their experience and misses the opportunity for therapeutic communication.
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Definition of Brians Law
The year Brians Law was introduced
What is: The Bill proposes amendments to the Mental Health Act that would allow persons needing psychiatric treatment to live outside of a psychiatric facility under a community treatment order.
What is: 1996, (Assented in 2000).