Nutrition
When the body breaks down food into simple substances that can be used as nutrients or excreted by waste
What is digestion?
Alcohol, caffeinated beverages, spicy foods, dairy, apples, peaches, and pears all have this in common
What are foods that can cause diarrhea?
Cells formed in the basal layer of the skin that function to protect the skin from water loss, pathogens, and injury.
What are keratinocytes?
Can result in loss of sensation, difficulty speaking, and visual deficits
Interval between the pathogen entering the body and the presentation of the first finding
What is the incubation stage?
What is a cardiovascular diet or heart healthy diet?
Manifestations include thirst, dry mouth or tongue, fatigue, dizziness, dark colored urine, or lack of urine or sweat
What is dehydration?
The surgical process of removing dead tissue and other debris that can cause infection
What is surgical debridement?
Structural eye disorder that causes an increase in intraocular pressure and can lead to blindness
What is glaucoma?
Systolic BP greater than or equal to 140 mm Hg OR Diastolic greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg
What is Stage 2 Hypertension?
Sac like organ responsible for storing bile and releasing it when needed
What is the gallbladder?
A common bladder control problem that affects the retention and release of urine from the bladder. Both females and males affected
What is Urinary Incontinence?
Redness of the skin that does not go away when pressure is applied; indicating structural damage has occurred in the small vessels supplying blood to the underling skin and tissues
What is Nonblanchable erythema?
An alteration in the inner ear, auditory nerve, or hearing center of the brain
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
What is Erikson's initiative vs guilt stage?
What is St. Johns Wort?
Its function includes regulating level of electrolytes, red blood cells, producing hormones that are responsible for blood pressure, and helps to keep bones strong
What is the urinary tract?
Full thickness skin loss with visible adipose tissue. Granulation tissue often present, wound edges may be rolled, and dead tissue possibly formed. fascia, bone, ligaments, tendon, cartilage not visible.
What is stage 3 pressure injury?
gentamicin, metronidazole, furosemide, cisplatin, and aspirin
What are ototoxic medications?
Test the strength of the muscle contraction by asking the client to clench their teeth while you palpate the masseter and temporal muscles, and then the temporomandibular joint.
What is cranial nerve V?
Steps include holding the breath, putting food/liquid in the mouth, swallowing up to three times while holding the breath until the food/liquid is mostly cleared, then coughing any residual out
What is the supraglottic swallow technique?
Test that evaluates tissue that may be swollen or irritated for ulcers, polyps, or cancer
What is a flexible sigmoidoscopy?
Occurs when the wound and all layers of tissue under the wound separate resulting in protrusion of intraabdominal organs through the suture line.
What is Evisceration?
An eardrum repair for conductive hearing loss
What is a Myringoplasty?
Acute or chronic upper airway obstruction, edema, anaphylaxis, burns, trauma, head/neck surgery, copious secretions, obstructive sleep apnea, need for longterm mechanical ventilation
What are indications for a tracheostomy?