Medical-Surgical Nursing Basics
This nursing specialty cares for adult patients with health problems requiring medicine, surgery, or both.
What is medical-surgical nursing?
This type of nursing focuses on population health and illness prevention.
What is community health nursing?
Relocation stress can be reduced by providing this whenever possible.
What are choices for the patient?
McCaffery’s definition of pain emphasizes that pain is this.
What is whatever the patient says it is?
Older adults generally need fewer calories because of this.
What is decreased physical activity and metabolism?
The most reliable source for LPN/RPN roles in medical-surgical settings is this.
What is the provincial/territorial nursing regulatory body?
Home health care must be authorized by this professional.
What is a physician or nurse practitioner?
Rehabilitation aims to restore this as much as possible.
What is function and independence?
This nonpharmacological intervention may take the patient to a beach in their mind
What is guided imagery?
This diet excludes all animal products.
What is a vegan diet?
This principle of ethics means “do no harm.”
What is nonmaleficence?
To qualify for home health nursing, care must be skilled, intermittent, and this.
What is reasonable and necessary?
This act was passed in 2019 to remove barriers for people with disabilities.
What is the Accessible Canada Act?
Acute pain differs from chronic pain because it serves this purpose.
What is a warning of tissue damage?
What does the Canada food guide recommend as you drink of choice (hint its not beer)
What is water?
A civil wrong against a person or property is called this.
What is a tort?
This federal act guarantees universality of health care in Canada.
What is the Canadian Health Act (1984)?
This principle of long-term care focuses on giving residents choices in routines.
What is maintenance of autonomy?
This type of pain often involves abnormal nerve processing, lasts longer than 3–6 months, and may include burning or shooting sensations even without a stimulus.
What is chronic neuropathic pain?
This feeding method bypasses the mouth and delivers nutrients into the stomach or intestine.
What is enteral feeding?
This organization regulates nurses in Nova Scotia to protect the public.
What is the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN)?
This service, such as IV therapy or ventilator care, is considered specialty home care.
What is specialty home care?
Level 4 (IV) disability means this level of dependence.
What is total dependence for ADLs?
This theory explains how pain signals can be blocked by stimulating large nerve fibers.
What is the Gate Control Theory?
Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is administered through this route.
What is a central venous line?