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| Between non-specific symptom onset, but before specific symptom onset |
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| personal protective equipment |
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vancomycin resistant enterococcus
lives for up to 10 days on surfaces
lives on hands for several hours
isolate Pt for 6 months with contact precautions |
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extended spectrum beta-lactamase
a multiple drug resistant organism |
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clostidium difficile, a toxin producing bacteria causing acute diarrhea
May be the result of antibiotics
contact precautions
Wash hands with soap and water, No alcohol foams/gels |
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respiratory syncytial virus
contact isolation |
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N95 mask
negative pressure precautions |
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gown & gloves
negative pressure precautions
nursing students not allowed to care for Pt with chicken pox |
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measles
gown & gloves
negative pressure precautions
nursing student not allowed to care for Pt with rubeola |
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| multiple drug resistant organisms |
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store out of Pt rooms
clean with bleach between uses |
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whooping cough
respiratory isolation |
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| surgical mask until 24 hours from first dose of antibiotics |
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varicella zoster
a herpes virus
private room if over a large area |
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| Too high O2 concentration |
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| material safety data sheets |
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| client-inherent accidents |
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| common cause of food born illness |
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| common cause of food born illness |
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| for predicting pressure ulcer risk |
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| Monitor restraints how often? |
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Every 1 to 2 hours
Must be part of medical Tx |
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serum proteins
includes vasoactive kinins & prostaglandins |
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fluid, dead tissues, WBCs
lymph system carries this fluid away |
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scar tissue
not as strong as normal tissue |
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| Includes hands, face, axillae, & perineal |
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| long, slow, gliding massage strokes |
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| What can be done to monitor the metabolic impact of immobility |
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look for fluid retention/dehydration
food intake and elimination
wound healing
Laboratory: electrolytes, serum proteins, & BUN |
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| Lying down does what to cardiac workload? |
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| increases workload and pulse, and increases O2 demand |
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| cold periphery in immobile Pt |
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| Possible that heart can't handle the workload |
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DVT hazard of immobility
assess legs every 8 hours
assess for tenderness
measure calf circumference daily |
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| collapse of all or part of a lung |
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| negative nitrogen balance |
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more nitrogen excreted than is ingested in protein
results in muscle and tissue breakdown
risk of immobility |
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| doing work and shortening muscle |
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| doing work without shortening muscle |
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| Get Pt out of bed how many hours after admission? |
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| doing work without shortening muscle |
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| Get Pt to sit up at edge of bed or in chair how often? |
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| at least three times a day (meal times) |
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| Have Pt ambulate how often? |
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| Deep breathing how often? |
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| 10 times, every hour while awake |
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| glasses and hearing aides for immobile Pt? |
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| Joints become stiff after how long disuse? |
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| device for measuring air expired |
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| aortic sounds assessed where? |
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| right, second intercostal space |
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| pulmonic sounds assessed where? |
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| left, third intercostal space (left sternal border) |
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| Tricuspid assessed where? |
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| fourth intercostal space, left sternal border |
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| first law to regulate medications |
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| Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 |
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| Perscribers must document what for each medication? |
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| Components of medication orders |
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hospital identification info
route
dose
frequency
date and time
signature of prescriber |
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| 7 rights of medication administration |
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right drug
right dose
right patient
right route
right time
right documentation
Pt right to refuse |
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| between syringe and needle |
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index finger pointing to anterior superior iliac crest
palm over greater trochanter
inject into gluteus medius |
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tympanic membrane
temporal artery
esophageal
pulmonary artery |
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| neural and vascular control of body temp is regulated by? |
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| anterior hypothalamus controls? |
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| posterior hypothalamus controls? |
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made by thyroid
increases metabolic rate |
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| tympanic membrane thermometer |
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| temporal artery thermometer |
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| stimulates cardiac contraction |
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| 4th intercostal space and more lateral |
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| diaphragm is for what pitch |
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| passive breathing is controlled by? |
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| chemoreceptors involved in respiration |
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medulla
carotid and aortic bodies
respond to O2, CO2, and H+ in arterial blood |
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costal (thoracic)
diaphragmatic (abdominal) |
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| percent arterial oxygen saturation |
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| percent of hemoglobin that is bound with O2 |
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arterial blood oxygen saturation
less than 70 percent in life threatening
measurement accuracy affected by carbon monoxide |
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