Fundamentals Final Review Flashcards
Bowel training can take how long?
A couple months or longer
Ileostomy has smaller or bigger liquid stool than colostomy ?
Smaller liquid stool
What is the technique of breathing out of your nose and mouth?
Valsalva maneuver
Licensed physician to help over all wellness?
Osteopaths
Preferred site for injection for one year old patient?
Vastus Lateralis
Refers to relative amount of drug used for desired effect
Purity
What’s the complication for someone who is restrictive mobility?
Development with hydrostatic pneumonia
Continuous passive motion machine
Ccpm, used to exercise joint after joint surgery
How often do you check patients cast?
Check swelling and point every shift
Patient in crutches, how much distance top of axilla and crutch?
2 finger width
How many people assist doing water therapy when moving patients?
Two
Orthopedic unit activity for patient that is immobile that prevents psychological effect (except)
- Reading
- Television
- Crossword puzzle
When a patient is in a prone position what is a pressure point that will be affected?
Toes
Wound is in the coccyx wound extending
Stage 3
Patient went for surgery for fractured femoral
Nurse should notify doctor if there’s a change in behavior
What are factors in wound healing?
Lifestyle, age and medication
What is the most common error in airway obstruction?
Food or pouring object
Ways to remove airway obstruction (except)?
Spirometer
Nasal suctioning, what should the amount of suction pressure be set between (not true)
40-80 mm
Sterile procedure
Tracheostomy
Patient is receiving oxygen, it should be administered with
Humidifier to prevent dryness of mucosa
Surgical opening into the trachea
Tracheostomy
Airway passage, hairlike structure
Cillia
Where do you attach the pulse oximeter?
Fingers, toes, ear and skin
Most common respiratory insufficiency
Obstruction of airway
Early signs of hypoxia (DOES NOT BELONG)
Patient has to sit up to breath, restlessness, and mental dullness (CYANOSIS) DOES NOT BELONG)
Patient aputation care
Must be rewrapped everyday with elastic bandage to help shape and shrink stamp size
Intramuscular injection. What gauge and size do you use?
1-1 ½ in needle guage 20-23
Most frequent way of injection for test of tuberculosis
Intradermal
90 year old patient when administering medication (except)
Pt has no difficulty reading medications
Patient asks how long will medication to take effect orally
Slow effect, 30 mins
Most serious abnormalities in stool
blood (melena)
Two most common groups to be dehydrated easily
Elderly and infants
Different types of enema Stimulates peristalsis through distention
Medicated enema
Type of enema that softens stool
retention enema
Signs of fecal infaction except
Regular bowel movement 1-2 times a day
Small bulging that can form in the lining of the digestive system and most commonly seen in the small intestine
Diverticulosis
Dark black color stool and has sticky appearance
occult
Surgical procedure to remove sigmoid colon connection to descending colon
Sigmoid colostomy
Diet containing no solid foods
Clear liquid diet
Mental disorder, patient refused to eat scared to gain weight
Anorexia
Eating disorder, they will eat and make them self throw up
Bulimia
Most common seen with alcohol abuse
Thiamin deficiency
Ethnic background at risk for developing diabetes
African American and Hispanics
Two partners who are both at risk for HIV, diet therapy
Delays AIDs
Patient has diagnosis of alcohol abuse
Thiamine
Indication for nasogastric tube except
Irritable bowel syndrome
Gastrostomy tube where to be placed
Directly into the stomach
Urinary system structure
Ureters, bladder, kidney and urethra
Urinalysis, patient complains of burning sensation
Pyuria where there is puss in urine
