Vn 15 Test 5 Flashcards
- Understand manifestations, nursing actions, and priorities for hypovolemia.
Manifestations
-Tachycardia
-Thready pulse
-Hypotension
-Dry mucous membranes
-No change in lung sounds
Nursing actions
-Increase oral intake
-Administer IV fluid replacements
-Controlling fluid losses
-Use a combination of the list above
Priorities
-Increase fluid
When should colloid be used?
when a patient needs substances such as blood and blood products (such as albumin)
When should crystalloid be used
made of water and other uniformly dissolved crystals(salts and other water-soluble molecules)
When should isotonic be used?
contains the same concentration of dissolved substances as normally found in plasma (used for hypotension, hemmorrhage, calories(fluid volume))
When should hypotonic be used?
. contains fewer dissolved substances that normally found in plasma (used in hypernatremia (cells swell))
When is hypertonic used?
is more concentrated than body fluid and draws cellular and intital water into the intravascular compartment (given to a patient with edema (cells shrink).
3.Understand manifestations, nursing actions, and priorities for hypervolemia
Manifestations
-Bounding pulse
-Hypertension
-Moist mucous membranes
-Crackles in lungs
-Pitting edema
Nursing actions
-Restricting or limiting oral fluids
-Reducing salt consumption
-Dc IV fluid infusions or reducing the infusion volume
-Admin. Drugs that promote urine elimination
-combination of the above interventions
Priorities
-Decrease fluids
- Understand the three phases of the nurse-client relationship and be able to identify examples.
Introductory phase
-Period of getting aquainted
Working phase
-Mutually planning care, implementing plan
Terminating phase
-Nurse and client agree immediate health problems have improved
- Understand and identify examples of the following therapeutic communication techniques provided in your Brightspace handout.
-giving broad openings
-exploring
-accepting
-offering general leads
-giving recognition
-giving information
-seeking clarification
-verbalizing the implied
-using silence
-offering self
-making observations
-Placing the event in time or sequence
-encouraging compassion
-reflecting
-restating
-summarizing
- Understand and identify non-therapeutic techniques: see slide 8 in PP.
• Giving advice
• Minimizing or discounting feelings
• Deflecting
• Interrogating- “why”
• Sparring
- Review key points in the Muslim and Asian culture (from presentations)
Asian Americans
Asian Americans
• believe that lingering eye contact is an invasion of privacy or a sign of disrespect.
• feel more comfortable with the nurse at more than an arm’s length away
• consider the head to be a sacred body part that only close relatives can touch. ask permission before touching this area.
• Asians also believe that the area between a female’s waist and knees is particularly private and should not be touched by any male other than the woman’s husband. a male nurse offering an explanation, requesting permission, and allowing the client’s husband to stay in the room
Arab Americans
• may misinterpret direct eye contact as sexually suggestive.
- What are nursing considerations when monitoring TPN via infusion pump?
Watch out for
-Infiltration
-Phlebitis
-Lipid emulsions: watch for reactions m