STNA State Test Study Guide
abandonment - Answer - withdrawing support from someone abduction pillow - Answer - pillow placed between legs while rolling them alternating pressure mattress - Answer - helps prevent bed sores, multiple air cells fill and empty alternately aseptic - Answer - sterile, germ free atrophy - Answer - wasting away of body tissue from lack of use and movement central nervous system - Answer - consists of brain and all nerves running thru body that controls movement and feeling communicable - Answer - contagious, can be passed from one person to another dysuria - Answer - painful or difficult urination jaundice - Answer - yellowing of the skin usually due to liver damage multiple sclerosis - Answer - a disease affecting the brain, spinal cord, and nerves palliative care - Answer - special care focusing on comfort and relieving pain when a person is close to death trochanter roll - Answer - a roll placed on the outside of the hip to keep it straight aphasia - Answer - difficulty speaking cyanotic - Answer - blueish color on areas such as nails and skin when they dont receive enough water decubitus ulcer - Answer - bed sores from lack of movement diastolic - Answer - heart at rest; the bottom number on blood pressure readings gastric feedings - Answer - feeding thru the stomach ileostomy - Answer - removed all large intestine and part of small. liquid feces integumentary system - Answer - skin ombudsman - Answer - investigates complaints systolic - Answer - the heart contracting, the top n
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