PNVN 1521 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which vitamins are antioxidants? - ✔✔Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
(ACE)
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral promote wound healing? - ✔✔Vitamin C
Zinc
✔✔Which vitamin helps treat bleeding? - ✔✔Vitamin K
✔✔Which vitamins and minerals are associated with hemoglobin? - ✔✔Folic Acid
Vitamin B12
Iron
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral helps treat anemia? - ✔✔Iron
Vitamin B12
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral helps treat Osteoporosis? - ✔✔Vitamin D
Calcium
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Function:
• Builds & repair tissues
• Regulate fluid balance
• Maintain acid-base balance
• Produce antibodies
• Provide energy
• Produce enzymes & hormones
✔✔Complete Proteins - ✔✔Contains all 9 essential amino acids
Found in animal origin & tofu
✔✔Incomplete Proteins - ✔✔Lacking in one or more or the essential amino acids
Found in grains, legumes, nuts, and
seeds, edamame, spinach
✔✔Wound care interventions, wet-to-dry dressing changes - ✔✔Interventions:
• Prevent and manage infection
• Cleanse the wound
• Debride the wound
, • Maintain appropriate moisture in the wound
• Eliminate dead space
• Manage wound pain
• Protect peri wound skin
• Application of topical medications
✔✔Jackson-Pratt Drain - ✔✔Hollow bulb-like device used to collect drainage
Active drain uses suction
Intervention:
• Protect skin from drainage
• Empty q8-12hrs
• Monitor stool
✔✔T-tube drains - ✔✔Common bile duct
Drain uses gravity
Intervention:
• Protect skin from drainage
• Empty q8-12hrs
• Monitor stool
✔✔Nutrient-rich - ✔✔Food or products that provides a substantial amount of vitamins,
minerals, and other nutrients and relatively few calories
✔✔Nutrient-poor - ✔✔Food or products that has a large number of calories relative to
the protein, vitamins, and other key nutrients it contain
✔✔Nursing interventions and considerations for Dressing changes - ✔✔Intervention:
• Wash hands
• Put on Clean gloves
• Remove the old dressing and dispose of it
• Clean the wound
• Wash hands
• Put on clean gloves (sterile gloves are not needed)
• Apply the new dressing and secure it in place
Considerations:
• Assess the color
• Amount
• Consistency
• Odor
• Nature of wound drainage
✔✔ Pediculosis - ✔✔Treatment:
• Over the counter preparations/prescription medications
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which vitamins are antioxidants? - ✔✔Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
(ACE)
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral promote wound healing? - ✔✔Vitamin C
Zinc
✔✔Which vitamin helps treat bleeding? - ✔✔Vitamin K
✔✔Which vitamins and minerals are associated with hemoglobin? - ✔✔Folic Acid
Vitamin B12
Iron
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral helps treat anemia? - ✔✔Iron
Vitamin B12
✔✔Which vitamin and mineral helps treat Osteoporosis? - ✔✔Vitamin D
Calcium
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Function:
• Builds & repair tissues
• Regulate fluid balance
• Maintain acid-base balance
• Produce antibodies
• Provide energy
• Produce enzymes & hormones
✔✔Complete Proteins - ✔✔Contains all 9 essential amino acids
Found in animal origin & tofu
✔✔Incomplete Proteins - ✔✔Lacking in one or more or the essential amino acids
Found in grains, legumes, nuts, and
seeds, edamame, spinach
✔✔Wound care interventions, wet-to-dry dressing changes - ✔✔Interventions:
• Prevent and manage infection
• Cleanse the wound
• Debride the wound
, • Maintain appropriate moisture in the wound
• Eliminate dead space
• Manage wound pain
• Protect peri wound skin
• Application of topical medications
✔✔Jackson-Pratt Drain - ✔✔Hollow bulb-like device used to collect drainage
Active drain uses suction
Intervention:
• Protect skin from drainage
• Empty q8-12hrs
• Monitor stool
✔✔T-tube drains - ✔✔Common bile duct
Drain uses gravity
Intervention:
• Protect skin from drainage
• Empty q8-12hrs
• Monitor stool
✔✔Nutrient-rich - ✔✔Food or products that provides a substantial amount of vitamins,
minerals, and other nutrients and relatively few calories
✔✔Nutrient-poor - ✔✔Food or products that has a large number of calories relative to
the protein, vitamins, and other key nutrients it contain
✔✔Nursing interventions and considerations for Dressing changes - ✔✔Intervention:
• Wash hands
• Put on Clean gloves
• Remove the old dressing and dispose of it
• Clean the wound
• Wash hands
• Put on clean gloves (sterile gloves are not needed)
• Apply the new dressing and secure it in place
Considerations:
• Assess the color
• Amount
• Consistency
• Odor
• Nature of wound drainage
✔✔ Pediculosis - ✔✔Treatment:
• Over the counter preparations/prescription medications
