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
A client has type 1 diabetes and has a blood glucose of 48 what should I do
I should give a graham cracker, not milk, not tsp of sugar
Teaching prevention of the long-term complications of diabetes mellitus
Maintain stable blood glucose levels
What are nutritional risk factors of adolescents
Skipping meals, not under proper parental supervision, (becomes problematic once they’ve skipped more than 3 meals in a week)
What’s some teaching that should be included with a client who had a complete abd. Salpingo-oophorectomy
Vaginal dryness is expected-use lube
If you’re caring for a client with
Perineal dialysis what’s something you should report to the provider
Purulent drainage
