Nursing 3 Exam 2 focus points (With 100%orrect Answers)

Focus Points NUR2790 Summer 2018 Exam 2 Here are some key focus areas for Exam 2 which covers Modules 3, 4, & 5. Review course modules for information. You are responsible for all content in the chapters, power points, lecture notes, tables, red flags, figures, boxes, with special focus points on the following topics: Burns  Review RN delegation of tasks o Direction; know the skill set of patient you are delegating o Working through the steps of the nursing process o Always keeping the sickest patient  UAP cannot give medications; give them the lowest skill for their task (monitor I & O , ADL’s)  LPN cannot push medications or assess, admit, teach, diagnosis, or take care of unstable or acute illness o Prioritization o Levels in triage  Emergent (loss of life or limb, unresponsive, anaphylaxis, stroke-like symptoms)  Urgent (prompt evaluation, fractures w/o N/V compromise, abdominal pain, nosebleeds)  Stable (not a risk of deterioration and care can be delayed, dermatitis, medication refills, toothaches, sprains, strains)  EMTALA o federal law that requires hospital emergency departments to medically screen every patient who seeks emergency care and to stabilize or transfer those with medical emergencies, regardless of health insurance status or ability to pay  Infection prevention o Washing hands o Placing appropriate patients on isolation o Wearing appropriate PPE o Place patient on abts and use sterile technique  Understand how to support severely burned patients from resuscitation to discharge/rehab; identify priority actions in each phase o Resuscitation phase (1 s t) begins on the onset of injury and continues for 24-48 hours (when patient start to diuresis)  Secure airway  Support circulation and organ perfusion by fluid perfusion  Pain meds  Prevent infection  Maintain body temp o Acute  Begins when fluid resuscitation is finished and ends when wound is covered by tissue o Rehabilitative  begins when most of the burn is healed