Deck 2 Flashcards
Signs and symptoms with a client who has peritonitis and is receiving peritoneal dialysis
Nausea and vomiting (how would this present)
Assessing an AV graft-Fistula
Feel for thrill and bruit-Auscultate
Restrictions for client on chemo with neutropenia
Flowers need to go outside of the patients room
What labs should you report with a client who has breast cancer that is on chemotherapy
Low white blood cell count this tells us that the client is neutropenic
What should you teach a client who has breast cancer and is on chemo about taking tamoxifen
Watch for hot flashes
What’s a dietary teaching to promote wound healing
Vitamin A-carrots, vitamin C-oranges, vitamin K-spinach, Vitamin B-12
What’s a fat soul able vitamin for a client with acute pancreatitis
Vitamin A-carrots
What’s a therapeutic intervention for a client who is malnourished and depressed to improve thier nutritional intake
Sit with the client
What’s a nursing intervention for a client who has not voided following the removal of their indwelling catheter
Bladder scan
You want to refer a client with dysphasia to who?
Speech therapist
Condition associated with H. Pylori
Peptic ulcer disease
Expected findings for a client with an upper GI bleed
It’s going to look like coffee grounds (dark blood)
An effective lab value for a cancer patient receiving TPN
High levels of Albumin
What’s the expected nursing intervention when pharmacy is late on TPN
Administer D10
Signs and symptoms of a client with type two diabetes that require priority intervention
If I see shaking- I need to administer insulin