Term
| When the visiting nurse is teaching the family of a client with acute conjunctivitis regarding the disease process, the nurse emphasizes which of the following statements as most important? |
|
Definition
| Wash hands before and after instilling eye drops |
|
|
Term
| The nurse in the ophthalmologists office is instructing the teenager about wearing and caring for contact lenses. Which of the following statements, if made by the client to the nurse, would indicate that the teaching has been successful? |
|
Definition
| “Even when my friends ask to try them on, I’ll tell them ‘No.'" |
|
|
Term
| The client who has undergone eye surgery arrives at the postanesthesia care unit. The nurse observes sanguineous drainage on the eye dressing. The nurse’s first action is to |
|
Definition
| notify the client’s surgeon. |
|
|
Term
| When the client who has undergone cataract extraction is preparing to go home, the nurse reinforces which of the following instructions? |
|
Definition
| Avoid sleeping on the operative side |
|
|
Term
| A spry 77 year old female client has been diagnosed with simple glaucoma. She lives alone, takes medications for asthma, is on a fixed income, and walks to Catholic Mass on Sunday mornings. The nurse must be certain that the ophthalmologist is aware of which of the aforementioned facts about the client? |
|
Definition
| Takes medications for asthma |
|
|
Term
| The client is in the preoperative holding area, having been brought to surgery from the Emergency Department because of a detached retina. The tear has occurred in the right posterior aspect of the retina The nurse places the client in which of the following positions? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| A preschool child is undergoing bilateral myringotomy with tubes for the treatment of recurrent otitis media. The mother asks the nurse what the tubes will do. The nurse’s best response is that the tubes will |
|
Definition
| equalize pressures between the middle ear and the environment. |
|
|
Term
| A 23 year old man is admitted to the ambulatory surgery unit to undergo removal of a cholesteatoma from the middle ear. Which of the following post surgery nursing interventions takes priority? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The client is admitted to the acute care unit for surgery. A labyrinthectomy will be performed on the client’s left ear. Which of the following post-procedure nursing interventions must take priority: |
|
Definition
| standing on the client’s unaffected side to speak to the client |
|
|
Term
| The nurse describes tinnitus to the family members of a client who was recently diagnosed with tinnitus, and indicates that the noise in the ears does not come from the environment. The nurse recommends which of the following strategies to the family to improve the client’s ability to concentrate and sleep? |
|
Definition
| Use a white-noise machine |
|
|
Term
| From the following list of signs and symptoms, identify those which are associated with angle closure (also called narrow-angle or closed-angle) glaucoma. (Select all that apply.) |
|
Definition
nausea and vomiting
seeing halos around lights |
|
|
Term
| Which of the nursing interventions are appropriate to use during the postoperative care of the client who has undergone ear surgery? (Select all that apply.) |
|
Definition
instructing the client to keep the mouth open during sneezing
administer antiemetic medication at the first sign of nausea
place client on the unaffected side |
|
|
