1809NRS- EFFECTIVE NURSING
PRACTICE EXAM DEFINITIONS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Healthcare-associated infections: - Answer infections people acquire during the course of
receiving treatment for other conditions within a healthcare setting.
" Asepsis: - Answer the absence of germs, infection and septic matter
" Cultural competence: - Answer a concept that recognizes the professional and legal
responsibilities inherent in providing appropriate care to all patients of health services including
the appropriate use of an interpreter and communication 'props' to help them communicate
and negotiate care needs with their patients
" Cultural safety: - Answer a reflection of the effective nursing care of a person or family from
another culture, and is determined by the person or family. Culture includes, but is not
restricted to, age or generation; gender; sexual orientation; occupation and socioeconomic
status; ethnic origin or migrant experience; religious or spiritual belief; and disability
" Unsafe cultural practice: - Answer any action which diminishes, demeans, or disempowers
the cultural identity and wellbeing of an individual
" Culture: - Answer the shared and learned behaviours that exist within the same cultural
group
" Acute surgical wound: - Answer a clean cut with a sharp instrument which cuts or punctures
the skin deliberately during a surgical procedure
" Trauma wounds: - Answer a stressful event caused by wither a mechanical or chemical injury
resulting in tissue damage
" Burns: - Answer injuries to tissues caused by heat, friction, electricity, radiation, or chemicals
" Chronic wounds: - Answer Wounds that fail to heal in an orderly and timely manner
" Pressure injuries: - Answer a localised injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually
over a bony prominence, as a result of pressure, shear and/or friction, or a combination of
these factors
, " Infected wounds: - Answer an invasion of wound tissue by (and multiplication of) pathogenic
microorganisms, which may produce subsequent tissue injury and progress to overt disease
through a variety of cellular or toxic mechanisms
" Venous leg ulcer: are - Answer are characterised by a sloping wound edge
" Arterial leg ulcer: - Answer have a punched-out wound edge
" Primary Intention - Answer a surgical wound that is stitched or stapled
" Delayed Primary Intention - Answer If there is an infection in a wound and you cannot put a
drain in, you keep the wound open for 3-5 days before closing it up
" Secondary Intention: - Answer ulcers. You do not stitch as there is limited blood supply and
the wound is too wide
" Flap - Answer a graft, but the blood supply is transferred too
" Dehiscence: - Answer if a primary intention wound comes apart or opens
" Hypergranulation: - Answer too much granulation
" Hypertrophic scars: - Answer scarring of muscles - it inhibits movement
" Keloid scars: - Answer result of hypergranulation
" Contractures: - Answer a condition of shortening and hardening of muscles, tendons, or
other tissue, often leading to deformity and rigidity of joints
" Haemorrhage: - Answer excessive bleeding
" Haematoma: - Answer a bruise (can be a sign of haemorrhage)
" Evisceration: - Answer when some of the internal organs come out of the wound
" Fistula formation: - Answer an opening where you shouldn't have one. For example, I woman
may have poo coming out of her vagina because of an internal opening. This can cause sepsis
PRACTICE EXAM DEFINITIONS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Healthcare-associated infections: - Answer infections people acquire during the course of
receiving treatment for other conditions within a healthcare setting.
" Asepsis: - Answer the absence of germs, infection and septic matter
" Cultural competence: - Answer a concept that recognizes the professional and legal
responsibilities inherent in providing appropriate care to all patients of health services including
the appropriate use of an interpreter and communication 'props' to help them communicate
and negotiate care needs with their patients
" Cultural safety: - Answer a reflection of the effective nursing care of a person or family from
another culture, and is determined by the person or family. Culture includes, but is not
restricted to, age or generation; gender; sexual orientation; occupation and socioeconomic
status; ethnic origin or migrant experience; religious or spiritual belief; and disability
" Unsafe cultural practice: - Answer any action which diminishes, demeans, or disempowers
the cultural identity and wellbeing of an individual
" Culture: - Answer the shared and learned behaviours that exist within the same cultural
group
" Acute surgical wound: - Answer a clean cut with a sharp instrument which cuts or punctures
the skin deliberately during a surgical procedure
" Trauma wounds: - Answer a stressful event caused by wither a mechanical or chemical injury
resulting in tissue damage
" Burns: - Answer injuries to tissues caused by heat, friction, electricity, radiation, or chemicals
" Chronic wounds: - Answer Wounds that fail to heal in an orderly and timely manner
" Pressure injuries: - Answer a localised injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually
over a bony prominence, as a result of pressure, shear and/or friction, or a combination of
these factors
, " Infected wounds: - Answer an invasion of wound tissue by (and multiplication of) pathogenic
microorganisms, which may produce subsequent tissue injury and progress to overt disease
through a variety of cellular or toxic mechanisms
" Venous leg ulcer: are - Answer are characterised by a sloping wound edge
" Arterial leg ulcer: - Answer have a punched-out wound edge
" Primary Intention - Answer a surgical wound that is stitched or stapled
" Delayed Primary Intention - Answer If there is an infection in a wound and you cannot put a
drain in, you keep the wound open for 3-5 days before closing it up
" Secondary Intention: - Answer ulcers. You do not stitch as there is limited blood supply and
the wound is too wide
" Flap - Answer a graft, but the blood supply is transferred too
" Dehiscence: - Answer if a primary intention wound comes apart or opens
" Hypergranulation: - Answer too much granulation
" Hypertrophic scars: - Answer scarring of muscles - it inhibits movement
" Keloid scars: - Answer result of hypergranulation
" Contractures: - Answer a condition of shortening and hardening of muscles, tendons, or
other tissue, often leading to deformity and rigidity of joints
" Haemorrhage: - Answer excessive bleeding
" Haematoma: - Answer a bruise (can be a sign of haemorrhage)
" Evisceration: - Answer when some of the internal organs come out of the wound
" Fistula formation: - Answer an opening where you shouldn't have one. For example, I woman
may have poo coming out of her vagina because of an internal opening. This can cause sepsis
