Fundamentals
A nursing ethical principle for "Making a promise to a patient"
Fidelity
The LPN tells the postoperative client to turn, take deep breaths, and cough every 2 hours. What ethical value is the LPN using?
Beneficience
These infections usually do not occur in individuals with a healthy immune system
opportunistic infection
what are thew six rights of medicine administration?
right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, right route, right documentation
what is the maximum amount of time that the client can be suctioned for?
10 seconds
A set of learned objective assessment skills required in fundamentals of Nursing?
Vital signs
A client is in hypovolemic shock. You would administer this IV solution while waiting for a unit of blood?
0.9% sodium chloride
This is the first stage of shock
Compensation
How many checks should you do before administering a drug to a patient?
3
This acid-base imbalance is common in COPD
respiratory acidosis
The five characteristics of legally defensible charting/ documenting
Factual, accurate, complete, current, and organized
The nurse should review this lab result following the administration of packed red blood cells?
hematocrit
This is the rhythm of a dying heart
ventricular fibrillation
How many mL of water should you use to to flush a NG or g-tube before and after administering each medication?
15 to 30mL
This is a brief episode of abnormal electrical activity in the brain
seizure
The components of the chain of infection
1) infectious agents 2) reservoir 3) portal of exit 4) mode of transmission 5) portal of entry 6) susceptible host
This type of blood is collected from a client during a surgical procedure and reinfused during surgery or after
Salvaged blood
This is the change of the normal sequence of cardiac impulses resulting in erratic heart rhythms or rates that are too fast or slow
arrhythmias(dysrhythmias)
nitroglycerin is used for what ?
Angina
These are harmful chemicals released by bacterial cells. They are also the most likely to cause septic shock
endotoxins
What is common lab value to assess nutritional status
Albumin
Which laboratory test indicates level of heart failure?
B-type Natriuretic peptides BNP
severe anemia and bronzing of the skin is caused by this disorder
Cooley's anemia
Vitamin K is an antidote for what medication?
Warfarin
This laboratory test from a 24 hour urine specimen determines if a patient has pheochromocytoma
catecholamines metabolites