Sensory Perception
Excessive, sustained, and unmanageable multisensory stimulation.
What is sensory overload?
Critical for cell function and replacing fluids the body loses through perspiration, elimination, and respiration?
What is water?
Pain or discomfort with urination often due to infection or injury.
What is dysuria?
Test utilized to identify clients who are at heightened risk for alterations in skin integrity
What is The Braden Scale?
approximately 0.5 mL/kg/hr
What is an adult's expected urinary output?
reduced sensory input from the internal or external environment
What is sensory deprivation?
The amount of energy expended by the body at rest.
What is the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)?
These medications minimize fluid loss by preventing urine production in the kidneys.
What are antidiuretics?
Inadequate supply of blood circulation, which results in low oxygen levels in tissues
What is hypoperfusion?
Assessment for each client at admission and at regular intervals.
What is fall-risk assessment?
Exposure to loud noises, ototoxic medications, aging, acoustic neuroma
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
The intravenous administration of amino acids, often with added carbohydrates, fats, electrolytes, vitamins, and minerals.
What is total parenteral nutrition?
Coughing, sneezing, laughing, or physical activity that increases pressure on the bladder, resulting in urine leakage.
What is stress incontinence?
Partial-thickness skin loss
What is a stage 2 pressure injury?
Guides the primary survey and emergency care
What is ABCDE principle?
Slit lamp examination, gonioscopy, tonometry, visual acuity tests, and ophthalmoscopy
What is diagnostic procedures to assess vision/vision loss?
A disorder in which the stomach contents flow back into the esophagus.
What is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)?
The products used for inserting an indwelling catheter in a client with a latex allergy.
What are silicon and Teflon?
Correct position of the bed to minimize pressure and shearing
What is head of the bed lower than 30°?
To calculate this nutritional value, you take the total carbohydrates per serving and subtract the fiber and sugar alcohols.
What are net carbs?
Gentamicin, metronidazole, furosemide, aspirin, ibuprofen, cisplatin
What is ototoxic medications?
Diet that can lead to deficiencies in calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, iron, zinc, and vitamin B12.
What is the vegan diet?
An inflamed pouch or sac in the colon that is the result of stool becoming trapped.
What is diverticulitis?
A combination of primary and secondary healing, in which the wound is left open for 5 to 10 days before it is closed with sutures
What is delayed primary closure?
Volume of blood ejected by the left ventricle during one contraction
What is stroke volume?