Week 1

Question 1

What is the nursing process ADPIE?

Answer 1

Assessment, diagnoses, planning, implementation, and evaluation

Question 2

(3) methods of data collection

Answer 2

• Interview
• Nursing health history
• Physical examination

Question 3

What are the (6) links to the chain of infection?

Answer 3

• Infectious agent
• Reservoir
• Portal of exit
• Mode of transmission
• Portal of entry
• Susceptible host

Question 4

What are AROs?

Answer 4

Antibiotic Resistant Organisms

Question 5

__________ develop resistance to the antimicrobials that previously eliminated them & make treatment difficult.

Answer 5

Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (AROs)

Question 6

How is MRSA transmitted?

Answer 6

Direct person-to-person contact and contaminated objects because it easily colonizes on the skin

Question 7

Signs & Symptoms of MRSA?

Answer 7

Fever, purulent drainage

Question 8

After ______ consecutive swabs that are negative (no longer require isolation precautions) for MRSA

Answer 8

3

Question 9

What is VRE?

Answer 9

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

Question 10

Enterococci bacteria is present in ____________ and shed through stool

Answer 10

GI tract

Question 11

How is VRE transmitted?

Answer 11

Direct/indirect contact

Question 12

_____________ is a gram-positive bacillus that releases toxins into the bowel, spore-forming, anaerobic bacillus

Answer 12

Clostridium Difficile (C. Diff)

Question 13

Signs & Symptoms of C. Diff?

Answer 13

Watery diarrhea, fever, loss of appetite/nausea, abdominal pain

Question 14

C. Diff is treated with _________ or ___________________

Answer 14

Flagyl or Vancomycin

Question 15

For C. Diff, Avoid ____________ agents (I.e. Imodium)

Answer 15

Anti-peristalsis

Question 16

SARS means?

Answer 16

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Question 17

What type of additional precaution is needed for a patient with VRE?

Answer 17

more extensive contact precautions like NO sharing anything

Question 18

What is a priority nursing diagnoses for diarrhea?

Answer 18

Risk for dehydration related to excessive fluid loss

Question 19

__________________ is the human experience of symptoms and suffering.

Answer 19

Illness

Question 20

The development and maintenance of _______________ is critical to effective self-management of chronic illness.

Answer 20

self-efficacy

Question 21

Assessment of Patients with Chronic Illness includes (4):

Answer 21

• Mood disorders
• Fatigue
• Stigma
• Quality of life

Question 22

HRQL means?

Answer 22

Health related quality of life

Question 23

___________ is a serious condition that happens when the body’s immune system has an extreme response to an infection

Answer 23

sepsis