Acute Infectious Gastrointestinal Disorders
This viral gastrointestinal infection that has a vaccine as a preventative has an onset of watery stools and has an incubation period of 48 hours.
What is Rotavirus?
Surgical repair is done between 2 to 3 months of age for this facial disorder.
What is Cleft Lip?
This laboratory test involves the blood glucose levels to be drawn every 30 minutes for 2 hours.
What is the oral glucose tolerance test?
This is the priority action to do when dealing with burns.
What is stop the burning process?
This disorder is associated with cloudy, tea-colored urine, hematuria, proteinura, and facial edema that is worse in the morning and happens post streptococcal infection.
What is Acute Glomerulonephritis?
This test is performed to diagnose enterobius vermicularis.
What is the Tape Test?
For a cleft palate repair postoperatively name three nursing actions you will do.
What is place infant side-lying? What is maintain IV fluids until able to eat and drink? What is avoid straws, hard-tipped sippy cups, or suction cathers in the infants mouth after repair? What is to possibly use elbow restraints to prevent injury to the repair? What is observe for manifestations of airway obstruction, hemorrhage, and laryngeal spasm? What is use face mask to deliver oxygen? What is keep infant NPO for 4 hours and then allow liquids for the first 3-4 days and then progress to soft diet?
The expected HbA1C range for a child less than 6 years old with diabetes mellitus.
What is 7.5 to 8.5%?
This type of burn has damage to the entire epidermis and some parts of the dermis and sweat glands and hair follicles remain intact.
What is Deep Partial Thickness burn?
This disorder's urinalysis will show proteinuria (up to 15 grams of protein in a 24 hour specimen), hyaline casts, few RBCs, oval fat bodies, and an increased specific gravity.
What is Nephrotic syndrome?
This type of dehydration would require 50 ml/kg of rehydration fluid within 4 hours.
What is Mild Dehydration?
This type of diet is given to a patient with hirschsprung's disease.
What is high-protein, high-calorie, and low-fiber diet?
For what reasons would you need to call the provider during a period of illness with diabetes mellitus?
What is a blood glucose greater than 240 mg/dL, positive ketones in the urine, disorientation or confusion, rapid breathing, vomiting occurs more than once, and liquids can't be tolerated?
This skin graft is obtained from human cadavers.
What is allograft or homograft?
This medication is given for Nephrotic Syndrome and will need to be tapered after 2-5 months.
What is Prednisone?
The greatest predictor of dehydration in infants.
What is weight loss?
This will cause a child to have sudden, extreme abdominal pain with currant-like jelly stool, and an abdominal sausage-shaped mass.
What is Intussusception?
This type of insulin has an onset of 30 minutes to 1 hour and has a peak of 1 hour to 5 hours.
What is short-acting, regular insulin?
This is the priority action for a carbon monoxide injury.
A nurse is caring for a school-age child who has acute glomerulonephritis. Which finding should the nurse report to the provider?
A. BUN 8 mg/dL B. Blood creatinine 1.3 mg/dL C. Blood pressure 100/74 mm Hg
D. Urine output 550 mL in 24 hr
What is B: Blood creatinine is above the expected reference range and should be reported?
A child who has had watery diarrhea for the past 3 days. Which is the best action for the nurse to take?
A. Offer chicken broth. B. Initiate oral rehydration therapy.
C. Start hypertonic IV solution. D. Keep NPO until the diarrhea subsides.
B. What is oral rehydration therapy to replace lost electrolytes
This disorder is associated with an olive-shaped mass in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen and involves projectile vomiting.
What is Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis?
This term is associated with a blood glucose greater than 250 mg/dL, thirst, polyuria early on, dry mucous membranes, rapid, deep respirations, and a weak pulse.
What is hyperglycemia?
This medication is used with second and third degree burns and applied to cleansed, debrided areas using sterile gloves.
What is Silver sulfadiazine or Mafenide acetate?
Risk factors for this classification of Acute Renal Failure are: dehydration secondary to diarrheal disease or persistent vomiting, surgical shock and trauma, accidental poisoning, and prolonged anesthesia.
What is Prerenal?