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Seminar 1: Major Ideas of NURS2500
What is an rns role in caring for...,
How does a nurse uncover a patien...,
What is the definition of disease
9  cards
Seminar 1: Pathophysiology
What is pathology,
What is physiology,
What is pathophysiology
16  cards
Seminar 1: Introduction to Assessment
Part 1 of the powerpoint. Note to study this in conjunction with part 1, and NOT as an alternative.
12  cards
Seminar 1: Client Safety
Introduction to clienty safety, types and levels of errors
13  cards
Week 2: Intro + General Survey
Nurse treat diseases at different...,
What is considered primary care 2,
What is considered secondary care 2
21  cards
Week 2: OPQRSTU
What should you do if you find an...,
What does o stand for 4,
What does p stand for 3
9  cards
Week 2: Skills of Physical Assessment
What are the 5 skills of physical...,
What do you do in inspection 4,
What instruments do you use durin...
20  cards
Week 2: Analysis, Planning, Implementation
What should we generally do durin...,
What sh,
What questions should you ask you...
11  cards
Week 2: Vital Signs Intro + Temperature
What is the definition of a vital...,
What are the five vital signs,
Use the definition of pharmacolog...
19  cards
Week 2: Vital Signs - Pulse
How do you measure a pulse,
What does the pulse measure 4,
How do you measure heart rate
25  cards
Week 2: Vital Signs - Blood Pressure
What are 5 factors affecting bloo...,
What are 3 ways to measure blood ...,
When should you take a blood pres...
16  cards
Week 2: Vital Signs - Respiration
What factors measure respirations...,
What is respiratory rate 2,
What is rhythm 3
18  cards
Week 2: Oxygen Saturation
What does oxygen saturation also ...,
How does pulse oximetry work,
What is the normal range of spo2 3
8  cards
Week 3: Introduction to Pharmocology
The perfect drug has which 3 char...,
What does it mean for a drug to b...,
What does it mean for a drug to b...
16  cards
Week 3: Medication knowledge terms
What is an indication 2,
Indicatio,
What are relative contraindications
15  cards
Week 3: Pharmacokinetics - Absorption
What is pharmacokinetics,
What are the 2 types of drug move...,
What are the 4 types of passive d...
16  cards
Week 3: Pharmacokinetics - Distribution + Metabolism
What are 3 factors affecting dist...,
Why does exit of drug from vascul...,
Why does blood flow to tissues an...
13  cards
Week 3: Pharmacokinetics - Excretion
Where does excretion occur in the...,
Which drugs can cross the membrane,
What are the 3 steps in excretion
7  cards
Week 3: Lab Values
What do lab values tell us about 3,
What type of characteristics can ...,
What does an increased serum crea...
7  cards
Week 3: Time Course of Drug responses + half life
What are the 3 time courses for a...,
Why does plasma concentration aff...,
What is a drug s half life t1 2
14  cards
Week 3: Efficacy and Potency
What is efficacy of a drug,
What is potency of a drug,
What is the relationship between ...
19  cards
Week 4 - Cognition
What is cognition,
What are the 6 domains of cogniti...,
Cognition and its effects on the ...
18  cards
Week 4 - Cognitive Impairment
What are risk factors for cogniti...,
What are consequences of cognitiv...,
What can we do to generally manag...
17  cards
Week 4 - Delirium
What is delirium,
What percentage of older medical ...,
What do individuals with delirium...
15  cards
Week 4 - Pharmacology; Sedative Hypnotics
What are sedative hypnotics,
When are sedative hypnotics given,
Why are sedative hypnotics used 5
12  cards
Week 4 - Pharmacology; Benzodiazepines
Why are benzos commonly prescribed,
What is the moa of benzodiazepines 3,
What occurs during withdrawal of ...
23  cards
Week 4 - Sleep
What is the normal physiologic pr...,
What are the stages of sleep 7,
What is sleep interconnected with 8
8  cards
Week 4 - Pain + Awareness
What is pain 2,
Pain web map,
What are the impacts of pain to a...
16  cards
Week 4 - Physiologic Dimensions of Pain
What are the somatic sources of n...,
What are the visceral sources of ...,
What is referred pain
12  cards
Week 4 - Types of Pain
What are the 2 types of pain,
What is acute pain 2,
What is the cause of acute pain 5
15  cards
Week 4 - Pain Assessment
What is the goal of pain assessme...,
What is the gold standard of pain...,
What is the primary role of the n...
13  cards
Week 4 - Consequences of Unrelieved Pain
What are the consequences of unre...,
What are the consequences of unre...,
What are the consequences of unre...
9  cards
Week 4 - Pain Medications and Management
What is multimodal therapy 2,
How does multimodal therapy work 3,
Why is multimodal therapy differe...
22  cards
Week 4 - MOA of Morphine + Other Opioids
Moa of morphine diagram,
What are the contraindications of...,
What are the adverse effects of m...
16  cards
Week 4 - Cannabis, Tolerance, Dependence, Addiction
Cannabis was legalized in canada ...,
Cannabis contains numerous cannab...,
What does evidence suggest that c...
19  cards
Week 5 - Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
What type of mechanisms are in pl...,
Water or fluid in the body is in ...,
How much water fluid is in plasma
13  cards
Week 5 - Osmolality
What is osmolality,
What is the range for n plasma os...,
What does it mean if plasma osmol...
29  cards
Week 5 - F+E Imbalances
What is hypernatremia,
What is hyponatremia,
Name 2 water loving molecules rel...
13  cards
Week 5 - Hypovolemia and Hypervolemia
What is hypovolemia hypervolemia,
Why does hypovolemia occur 3,
What is the goal to treating hypo...
17  cards
Week 5 - IV Fluids: Crystalloids and Colloids
What is the purpose of isotonic iv 2,
What is the purpose of hypotonic ...,
What is the purpose of hypertonic...
27  cards
Week 5 - Sodium Imbalances
What is hyponatremia 3,
What are clinical manifestations ...,
What is the etiology of hyponatre...
13  cards
Week 5: Potassium
What are the characteristics of p...,
What are the sources of potassium 6,
Where is excess potassium excreted 2
21  cards
Week 5 - Diuretics + ADH
Furosemide and spironolactone eff...,
What type of diuretic is furosemide,
What is the moa of furosemide
17  cards
Week 5 - SIADH
Is adh released despite low or no...,
What is the cause of adh 4,
Siadh flow chart
8  cards
Week 5 - Diabetes Insipidus
Recall what would happen if you h...,
What are the two types of diabete...,
Decreased adh flow chart
12  cards
Week 6 - Tissue Integrity
Is the integumentary assessment s...,
What are the physiological functi...,
What are the embody social functi...
25  cards
Week 6 - Abnormal Findings: Lesions + Lab Assessment
What is a primary lesion,
What is a secondary lesion,
How should you assess a lesion 3
12  cards
Week 6 - Types of Tissue + Lethal Cell Injury
What are the 4 types of tissue,
What is the concept overview of t...,
Scope of tissue integrity diagram
12  cards
Week 6 - Pressure Ulcers
What is the etiology cause of pre...,
What are the risk factors of pres...,
Istap skin test classification di...
16  cards
Week 6 - Wound Healing
What is primary intention healing,
What is secondary intention 3,
What is tertiary intention
8  cards
Week 6 - Peripheral Perfusion
How does the nurse perform an ass...,
Arteries of the arm diagram,
Arteries in the leg diagram
14  cards
Week 6 - PVS: Tissue Perfusion
What is tissue perfusion,
What is arterial blood pressure d...,
How is bp maintained in arteries
7  cards
Week 6 - Peripheral Arterial Disease
What generally occurs in pad 2,
What is claudication,
What occhow should you assess leg...
12  cards
Week 6 - Chronic Venous Insufficiency
What is cvi,
What does back up of blood lead to,
What may cause back up of blood 4
6  cards
Week 7 - Hemodynamics
What is homeostasis 6,
What is allostasis 7,
Pathophysiology map
15  cards
Week 7 - Bleeding and Clotting
What is hemostasis,
Why is perfusion important to the...,
What do we need in our body to fo...
16  cards
Week 7 - Problem Clots
What are the 3 factors in virchow...,
What is virchow s triad,
Why is blood stasis associated wi...
19  cards
Week 7 - Pharmacological Treatment of Clotting Disorders
What are the 3 drug classes used ...,
What are the 3 anticoagulants,
What are the 2 antiplatelet drugs
21  cards
Week 7 - Antiplatelets and Thrombolytics
What is the moa of aspirin 2,
How long does aspirin work,
What are the routes of administra...
18  cards
Week 7 -Signs of Bleeding
Signs of bleeding picture,
Name of anti fibrinolytic drug,
What is the moa of aminocaproic a...
11  cards
Week 7 - Anemia
Components of the blood slide,
How rbc are made diagram,
A low hemoglobin hematocrit could...
21  cards
Week 7 - Iron Deficiency Anemia
Iron deficiency anemia can lead t...,
How long do rbc live,
When rbc are broken down what hap...
11  cards
Week 7 - Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia
What does vitamin b12 deficiency ...,
What is the cause for vitamin b12...,
Why does neuropathy occur with vi...
10  cards
Week 7 - Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia
What is folate how about folic ac...,
What does folic acid deficiency c...,
What causes folic acid deficiency...
8  cards
Week 7 - Anemia from Blood Loss
What is acute blood loss,
What is chronic blood loss,
What may cause acute blood loss 2
16  cards
Week 7 - Hypertension
How does the sympathetic nervous ...,
How does raas react to low bp,
When is adh released in terms of ...
11  cards
Week 7 - Hypertension Continued
Which populations are at risk for...,
Individuals risk factors for impa...,
How is htn diagnosed 4
9  cards
Week 7 - Pharmacological Treatment of HTN - Diuretics
What are the 3 classes of drugs u...,
What are the 3 diuretics used to ...,
Which ace inhibitor is used to tr...
17  cards
Week 7 - ACE Inhibitors and Beta Blockers
How do ace inhibitors like captop...,
What does captopril do to blood v...,
Ace inhibitors are less effective...
13  cards
Week 8 - Inflammation
What is inflammation 3,
What does inflamamtion initiate,
What is the correlation between i...
29  cards
Week 8 - Acute + Chronic Inflammation
What are the stages of acute infl...,
What occurs in vascular response ...,
What occurs in vascular response ...
14  cards
Week 8 - Clinical Manifestations of Inflammation
What are the characteristics to l...,
What are the clinical manifestati...,
What are the clinical manifestati...
22  cards
Week 9 - Cells of the Immune Response
What is immunity 2,
What kind of foreign antigens doe...,
How is immunity accomplished
20  cards
Week 9 - Adaptive Immunity
Adaptive immunity diagram,
What are the 2 types of adaptive ...,
What occurs in antibody mediated ...
18  cards
Week 9 - Hypersensitivity + Risk Factors
What are hypersensitivity disorde...,
What is a type i hypersensitivity...,
What is atype ii hypersensitivity...
9  cards
Week 9 - Assessment and Clinical Management of Immunity
What assessments can you perform ...,
Which diagnostic tests can you pe...,
What screening tests can you perf...
13  cards
Week 9 - Exaggerated Immune Response
Allergic reaction diagram,
What is anaphylaxis 2,
Clinical manifestations of anaphy...
5  cards
Week 9 - Infection
What is infection categorized by 4,
What is a local infection,
What is a systemic infection
15  cards
Week 9 - Assessment and Management of Infection
What should you assess for in inf...,
Which diagnostic tests can you pe...,
What are the clinical manifestati...
16  cards
Week 9 - Classification of Antimicrobial Drugs
A susceptible organism can be kil...,
What is the moa of antimicrobial ...,
What are bactericidal drugs
17  cards
Week 9 - Antibacterial Drugs
What are the different types of a...,
Penicillin drug info slide,
Cephalosporins drug info slide
14  cards
Week 10 - Gas Exchange Introduction
Alveoli diagram,
How oxygen moves and how we breat...,
What is ventilation
19  cards
Week 10 - COPD
What does copd stand for,
Copd is impaired _____,
What is copd 2
15  cards
Week 10 - Goals when Treating COPD
What are the goals of care for copd,
What are ways to manage the sympt...,
If the goal is to prevent weight ...
6  cards
Week 10 - Asthma, Antiinflammatory and Bronchodilators
What is asthma 2,
In asthma what does inflammation ...,
Which patients is asthma often no...
18  cards
Week 10 - Anticholinergics + Other Drugs
What are anticholinergic drugs,
What are the 2 anticholinergic dr...,
What is the moa of anticholinergics
13  cards
Week 10 - Pneumonia
What is pneumonia,
What is the etiology of pneumonia,
What are the risk factors of gett...
16  cards
Week 10 - Respiratory Assessment
Anterior thoracic landmarks,
Posterior thoracic landmarks,
Anterior lateral and posterior re...
12  cards
Week 10 - Respiratory IPPA
What to do when inspecting the re...,
Common respiratory patterns chart,
Palpitation assessment not tested
9  cards
Week 11 - Acid Base Balance Introduction
Why are hydrogen ions important,
The normal range for ph is 735 74...,
What is an acid 3
15  cards
Week 10 - Respiratory and Renal Acid-Base Balance
How does the respiratory system a...,
What do the lungs do if the body ...,
What occurs in alkalosis that aff...
16  cards
Week 11 - Respiratory and Metabolic Acidosis
What is respiratory acidosis,
What is the cause of respiratory ...,
What is the treatment for respira...
13  cards
Week 11 - Respiratory and Metabolic Alkalosis
What is respiratory alkalosis,
What is the cause of respiratory ...,
How is respiratory alkalosis treated
12  cards
Week 11 - Arterial Blood Gas
What is paco2 3,
What does hco3 measure 2,
What does pao2 measure 2
8  cards
Week 12 - Glucose Regulation Introduction
What is glucose 2,
What are the functional units of ...,
What are the 2 cells that we lear...
13  cards
Week 12 - Diabetes Mellitus
What are the 3 main causes of dm ...,
Why does inadequate absent produc...,
Why does insulin resistance occur 4
8  cards
Week 12 - DM: Hyperglycemia
What is the etiology of hyperglyc...,
Why may colonial abuse cause hype...,
How can genetics cause hyperglyce...
14  cards
Week 12 - DM: Acute Complications
Hhs is commonly seen in which kin...,
Can hyperglycaemia be extreme bef...,
What lab values would you see wit...
8  cards
Week 12: Major Complications of Diabetes
What are the microvascular compli...,
What does diabetes do to the eyes,
What does diabetes do to the kidney
12  cards
Week 12: Diabetes Pharmacology
Once diagnosed with diabetes tje ...,
What are the types of medications...,
When is exogenous injected insuli...
20  cards
Week 12 - Hypoglycemia
What is hypoglycemia,
What does hypoglyemia trigger the...,
If bs continues to fall with hypo...
7  cards
Week 13 - Hormonal Regulation
Which hormones in this unit can a...,
When performing nursing assessmen...,
The thyroid gland is ____ posteri...
12  cards
Week 13 - Hyperthyroidism Pharmacology
How is hyperthyroidism treated 2,
What is the moa of methimazole 2,
Why are beta blockers used for hy...
11  cards
Week 13 - Hypothyroidism
What is hypothyroidism 4,
Why hypothyroidism symptoms are r...,
When do symptoms for hypothyroidi...
20  cards
Week 13 - Adrenal Disorders Introduction
Adrenal glands are composed of th...,
Adrenal glands are composed of th...,
What are the adrenal glands contr...
8  cards
Week 13 - Cushing's Syndrome
What does cushing s look like in ...,
Clinical manifestations of cushin...,
9  cards
Week 13 - Addison's Disease
What is the etiology of addison s 4,
What are the clinical manifestati...,
What
14  cards

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