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Term 1 Fundamentals Flashcards

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The pts right to make their own decisions regarding their care even if the nurse disagrees

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autonomy

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What are the 5 components of swansons Theory of caring

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Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief

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A communication tool used to ensure accurate and concise information for transfer of patient

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Isbar

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What is nurses role in advocacy

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To protect patient rights, support their decisions, advocate for them to the provider

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Why is perineal care important for patients bedridden

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To prevent infections skin breakdown, and promote comfort, and hygiene

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Define clinical judgement in nursing

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Ability to assess patient conditions and make decisions about care interventions

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What is critical thinking in nursing?

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Process of analyzing information, and making evidence-based decisions in patient care

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5 steps of the nursing process

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Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation

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Results inclient death or permanent severe harm

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sentinel event

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What are the modes of transmission?

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Contact (touch), droplet(respiratory, coughs sneeze), airborne(tuberculosis)

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What are the 5 rights of delegation?

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Right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction & communication, right supervision & evaluation

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What are stages of pressure injury

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Redness, skinloss, subcutaneous layer exposed, bone

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What does systolic represent in blood pressure

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How hard heart is working

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What does the diastolic number in blood pressure represent

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When the heart is relaxed

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What is normal pulse

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60 -100bpm

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Where can you find pts aypical pulse.

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Left, 5th intercostal space(between ribs), true pulse

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Requires 2 nurses radial and aypical pulse taken at same time

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Pulse deficit

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What are the grading pulses

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O( absent/ nonpalble), +1 weak/ diminished, +2 normal, +3 increased, strong, +4 bounding

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How should you document pulse taking.

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Location of pulse, left or right , and grading number

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Actions guided by compassion and kindness

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beneficence

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Telling the truth

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veracity

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Keeping promises

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Fidelity

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To do something or act for the sake of benefiting someone.(ex. Holding door open, donating money)

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altruism

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Individual carries out an act or fails to carry one out and results in injury or harm to patient.(ex. Nurse forgets to give seizure medication

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Tort law

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What is infectious agent?

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Bacteria, fungi, virus, parasite

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Where infectious agent lives and grows(ex.food/water, people, dirty surfaces & equipment)

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Reservoir

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Susceptible host

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A person. Required for infectious agent to take hold

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Type of white blood cell that help the body fight infection & disease by engulfing pathogen (pacman)

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Phagocytes

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Protective protein produced by immune system and attatch to bacteria
To destroy them

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Antibodies

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Incubation

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Bacteria enters host and begins to multiply

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31
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Prodromal stage

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Pt begins having symptoms

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Acute illness

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Sickness is obvious and severe

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Decline stage

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When symptoms start to decrease and host feels a little better

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Convalescence

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Client returns to normal state of health

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35
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What color should mucous membranes be?

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Pink & moist

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36
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Epidermis

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Top layer of skin

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Dermis

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Middle layer of skin

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Subcutaneous layer

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Beneath dermis, made up of fat

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Acuity

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Complexity of patients condition (stable to highrisk)

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40
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Ideal discharge planning

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Include, discuss, educate, assess, listen

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Main type of sugar in the blood and is major source of energy for body’s cells

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Glucose

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Glycogen

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Stored sugar/ stored glucose

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43
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Normal blood pressure

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120/80

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44
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Normal body temp

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97 to 99 (98.6 is normal)

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45
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Respiratory rate

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12-20bpm

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46
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O2 level

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95% to 100%

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47
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Triage

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Prioritization (level 1 most urgent, level 5 least urgent )

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48
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Acute pain

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Last seconds to 6 months

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49
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Indicators of pain

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Elevation in vitals, veins pop out, pallor

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Severe pain

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Decrease in bp,decrease in heart rate, nausea & vomiting fainting, restlessness

51
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Nonpharmological pain interventions

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Positioning, heat/cold therapy, massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, tens unit

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Opioid analgesics

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Morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl codeine

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Circadian rhythm

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Cycle in body controls sleep-wake cycle

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Stage I sleep

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Light sleep, lasts 5-10 minutes

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Stage 3 sleep

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Deep sleep difficult to wake up stage is crucial for physical recovery and overall health.

56
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REM sleep brain becomes active dream stage breathing irregular, heart rate B blood pressure increase

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Stage 4 sleep

57
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Surfactant

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Lines the lungs keeps lungs from collapsing on itself. Mucousy substance

58
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Hypoxemia

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Low oxygen in blood

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Hypoxia

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Low oxygen in tissues

60
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Macronutrients

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Protein, carbs, and fat, provide energy to function

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Micronutrients

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Vitamin and minerals

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COPD

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Chronic airflow obstruction - decrease in oxygen increase in carbon dioxide

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6 rights of medication administration

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Right client,right medication,right dose, right route, right time of delivery, right documentation

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Poritis

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Itchy

65
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Hormone made by pancreas, helps sugar from food you eat move into body’s cells where its used for energy

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Insulin

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Not enough insulin

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Sugar stays in bloodstream causing high blood sugar

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Glycemia

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Blood sugar

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Alveoli

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Air sacs in lungs where exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place

69
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Pain caused by nerve damage or dysfunction

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neuropathic pain

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Phantom pain

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Pain felt in area that has been amputated

71
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Hormone produced by pineal gland that regulates sleep-wake cycle

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Melatonin

72
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Pulmonary artery

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Artery carrying deoxygenated blood from right ventricle to lungs

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Pulmonary vein

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Vein carrying oxygenated blood from lungs to left atrium of the heart

74
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Protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen, essential for oxygen transport throughout body

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Hemoglobin

75
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Mineral critical for hemoglobin production

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Iron

76
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Water soluble vitamin

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Vitamin B&C excreted through urine

77
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Prevents neural tube defects, critical during pregnancy

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Folic acid

78
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Risk factors for pressure injuries

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Poor nutrition immobile, decreased level of conciousness spinal injury, diabetics, urine or stool incontinence, activities that cause pressure injury

79
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Pressure injury sites

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Heels, ankles, hips,sacral area, elbows, shoulders , ears, inside of knees

80
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Stage l pressure injury

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Nonblanchable redness

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Stage 2 pressure injury

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Skin visibly damaged, exposed dermis

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Stage 3 pressure injury

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Full loss of skin through subcutaneous layer

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Stage 4 pressure injury

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Full loss of skin that exposes bone, muscle, tendon, ligaments

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Unstageable pressure injury

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Yellow or brown covering full skin loss

85
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Deep tissue injury

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Purple,blackish areas over skin, usually when people pass

86
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Too much CO2, shortness of breath, hypoxia

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Respiratory acidosis

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What is CO2

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Acidic/waste product

88
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Respiratory alkalosis

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Not enough CO2, hyperventilation

89
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What is normal blood PH

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7.35 - 7.45

90
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Too many acids in body, affects kidneys, diarrhea

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Metabolic acidosis

91
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Metabolic alkalosis

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Tool little acids, kidneys, vomiting

92
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First intention wound healing

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Sutured closed

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Second intention wound healing

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Wound left open to heal

94
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Delayed primary closure wound healing( tertiary intention)

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Wound left open 5-10 days then closed with sutures

95
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Penrose drain

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Tube inserted into wound that drains on gauze pad

96
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Jackson Pratt drain

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drain that collects fluid from wound (like Jessie)

97
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Symptoms of sepsis

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Fever(not always),hyperglycemia,hypotension, confused, high WBC , tachycardia, tachypnea

98
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When giving eyedrops what should you do?

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Press on lacrimal duct

99
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Peripheral vision loss, pressure build up on optic nerve

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Glaucoma

100
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Progressive eye disease that affects the macula of the retina leading to central vision loss

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Macular degeneration

101
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Diabetic retinopathy

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Vision loss, floaters

102
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Involve the clouding of the lens of the eye, which leads to a decrease in vision clarity

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Cataracts

103
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What is PCO2 and range

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Respiratory 45-35

104
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HCO3 /bicarb

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Metabolic 22-26

105
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Hormone regulates amt of glucose in body Helps with high blood sugar levels , glucose attaches to it and takes inside cell

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Insulin

106
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Sugar, body needs it to survive fuels cells in body

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Glucose

107
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Diabetes mellitus

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Body can not get access to glucose your eating which means no insulin present ( type 1) or body is resistant to insulin(type 2) - overweight sedentary, poor diet, genetic

108
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Elevated blood sugar(glucose) in body that’s just hanging out and this affects major organs

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Hyperglycemia

109
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Film dressing

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Small superficial wounds, non absorbant, iv sites , stitches

110
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Alginate dressing

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Made from fibers that turn into gel when it comes into contact with wound exudate, for moderate to heavily exuding wounds, pressure ulcers,venous ulcers, post op wounds

111
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Hydrofiber dressing

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Turns into gel when comes into contact with wound exudate. Absorbs more fluid, pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers

112
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Foam dressing

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Soft, absorbent, moderate to heavy exudate pressure ulcers, burns

113
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When bones have become thinner weaker as a result from prolonged bed rest

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Disuse osteoporosis

114
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Decrease in blood pressure upon standing , dizziness

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Orthostatic hypotension

115
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Acts as physical barrier blocking pathogens from invading the body, moist, inner-lining nose, mouth , lungs, and stomach

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Mucous membranes

116
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Medications commonly prescribed for the relief of pain have risk of sedation and respiratory depression

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opioids

117
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Used along with other medication help make pain relief move effective, like antidepressants

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Adjuvant analgesics

118
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phase where the body responds to the injury by sending blood cells and proteins to the area to control bleeding and prevent infection

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Inflammatory phase

119
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New tissue growth occurs as fibroblasts produce collagen to fill the wound and blood vessels form to supply nutrients

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Proliferative phase

120
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Collagen fibers model and strengthen, and the wound gradually closes as the tissue matures

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Maturation phase

121
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Vitamin C enhances?

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Iron

122
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Inflammation of vein, caused by irritation from the IV catheter. Signs include redness warmth, pain, palpable cord along the vein

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Phlebitis

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