NURS 175 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
known reservoirs - Answers - where bacteria grows, lives and multiplies
reservoir examples - Answers - humans, animals, environment
portals of exit - Answers - where the bacteria/virus leaves
portals of exit examples - Answers - coughing, vomiting,
Modes of transmission - Answers - contact (direct or indirect) droplet, airborne, common
vehicle, vector
Portals of entry for pathogens - Answers - skin, mucous membranes, placenta
systemic infection - Answers - chills, fever, muscle aches
acute - Answers - short-term, usually cured with antiviral, antibacterial
chronic - Answers - continuing for a long time
Colonization - Answers - bacteria is there but not necessarily causing the problem
vehicle transmission - Answers - things like direct/indirect contact, droplets, airborne
medical aesepsis - Answers - clean technique
how to manage transmission - Answers - Managing portals of entry and exit
Hand hygiene + gloves
PPE
Isolation precautions
What do nurses need to consider and/or include in their care? - Answers - Protecting
oneself so that you do not transmit microorganisms that you picked up along the way to
the patients
Explain why they are in isolation, make sure that we tell them that we will check up on
them
Always explain what is going on
Make sure that their needs are being met, attend to them when they need you
Validate their feelings (ex: being scared, uncomfortable)
Provide a susceptible host by giving good nursing care!
strong assessment skills - Answers - Skin and oral hygiene
Perineal care
, Adequate mobilization
Support nutrition
Support sleep and rest
Ensure physical safety
Nursing Process - Answers - Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
characteristics of the nursing process - Answers - •Cyclical
•Client-centered
•Focus on problem-solving
•Focus on decision-making
•Interpersonal and collaborative
•Use of critical thinking
purpose of the nursing process - Answers - •Gather data
•Cluster data
•Engage in critical thinking
•Foster clinical reasoning
•Make decisions
•Plan care
•Evaluate care
assessment factors - Answers - physical assessment
health history
psychosocial assessments
focus assessment - Answers - •Gathers specific details about the presenting concern to
either confirm or rule out abnormalities
time-lapsed assessment - Answers - •To reevaluate the patient's status and identify
whether the condition has improved, worsened, or stayed the same
emergency assessment - Answers - •To ensure the patient has a patent airway, is
breathing, and has adequate circulation
•To identify the primary cause of the problem
subjective data - Answers - what the patient says
objective - Answers - what you have observed and collected from others
when interviewing a patient - Answers - Verbal communication
•Open and closed ended questions
known reservoirs - Answers - where bacteria grows, lives and multiplies
reservoir examples - Answers - humans, animals, environment
portals of exit - Answers - where the bacteria/virus leaves
portals of exit examples - Answers - coughing, vomiting,
Modes of transmission - Answers - contact (direct or indirect) droplet, airborne, common
vehicle, vector
Portals of entry for pathogens - Answers - skin, mucous membranes, placenta
systemic infection - Answers - chills, fever, muscle aches
acute - Answers - short-term, usually cured with antiviral, antibacterial
chronic - Answers - continuing for a long time
Colonization - Answers - bacteria is there but not necessarily causing the problem
vehicle transmission - Answers - things like direct/indirect contact, droplets, airborne
medical aesepsis - Answers - clean technique
how to manage transmission - Answers - Managing portals of entry and exit
Hand hygiene + gloves
PPE
Isolation precautions
What do nurses need to consider and/or include in their care? - Answers - Protecting
oneself so that you do not transmit microorganisms that you picked up along the way to
the patients
Explain why they are in isolation, make sure that we tell them that we will check up on
them
Always explain what is going on
Make sure that their needs are being met, attend to them when they need you
Validate their feelings (ex: being scared, uncomfortable)
Provide a susceptible host by giving good nursing care!
strong assessment skills - Answers - Skin and oral hygiene
Perineal care
, Adequate mobilization
Support nutrition
Support sleep and rest
Ensure physical safety
Nursing Process - Answers - Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
characteristics of the nursing process - Answers - •Cyclical
•Client-centered
•Focus on problem-solving
•Focus on decision-making
•Interpersonal and collaborative
•Use of critical thinking
purpose of the nursing process - Answers - •Gather data
•Cluster data
•Engage in critical thinking
•Foster clinical reasoning
•Make decisions
•Plan care
•Evaluate care
assessment factors - Answers - physical assessment
health history
psychosocial assessments
focus assessment - Answers - •Gathers specific details about the presenting concern to
either confirm or rule out abnormalities
time-lapsed assessment - Answers - •To reevaluate the patient's status and identify
whether the condition has improved, worsened, or stayed the same
emergency assessment - Answers - •To ensure the patient has a patent airway, is
breathing, and has adequate circulation
•To identify the primary cause of the problem
subjective data - Answers - what the patient says
objective - Answers - what you have observed and collected from others
when interviewing a patient - Answers - Verbal communication
•Open and closed ended questions
