Nur 209 Exam 1 (With complete solution)

Safety measures nurses take correct answers Make sure you have the correct patient check wristband, name and DOB, and correct medical record, comfortable, and check head of the bed 30 degrees, NG tube nose to esophagus feeding thru tube. Nurse role for safety measures correct answers Accidents are preventable, water spilling, confusion in patients who do not leave alone, and assisting patients that can not walk. Use critical thinking skills as the nurse. If we see something as the nurse we must say something. Speak up in unsafe environments because it can prevent injuries. Between 5 and 7 mins sees the physician in a 24 hour period. The nurse is responsible for physical assessment, eating, drinking, fever, blood pressure, using the bathroom. 11 hrs and 53 mins and at night the full 12 hrs. You have your senses and equipment and your responsibility to notice changes in the patient's status and watch their safety. Our job is to make sure that the patient assigned to us is provided safe, correct, and proper care. Safety is the number one goal. Safety in older adults correct answers fall prevention, understand what we are telling them, steadiness, older adult physical comp decreases. Are they cognitive - something to put something together to create something else. Home safety - throw rugs biggest injury factor or rug runners those rugs that are not taken down can cause older people to fall and have a hip injury. The artery in the hip can break the hollow organ to empty its displaced fracture, can cause sepsis and can lead to death. 50 percent of people with a hip injury die in the first year. If you fracture the femur bone marrow gets exposed cause fat globules when going back to the inferior vena cava heart will have fat in it. As it goes into the lungs and causes a pulmonary clot (Embolism) a fat clot. 50 percent of patients die from pneumonia. Cant move blood will not be flowing correct, heart will lower, blood will pool and clot can go to lungs and cause pulmonary blood clot. The vessels will get smaller and will kill the heart muscle. go to coronary arteries. Safety Issues correct answers Radiation can cause cancer, high freq electrical magnetic shortwaves gamma rays, and many health related effects related to radiation. Thyroid is super sensitive to radiation. Use to protect against cancer. Chest XRays 1 shot, CAT scan - 1 shot times the amount of radiation of 100 x ray. As a nurse you must protect yourself also because it changes the DNA sequence change in cellular seq. Make sure the patient is getting safety protocols. Nurses are exposed to radiation a little bit each time. If it's a child only xray if the child starts to show neurological decline. Chances are the child could have a concussion, confront my physical assessment same result whether or not CAT scan is used. If the child is not waking up, confusion. Risk beneficial ratio - Is there a risk with radiation treatment? Y correct answers Yes, it can cause cancer. Repeated CAT scans increase your risk of getting cancer. Its more risky to get a CAT scan. The risk is too high for the benefit its going to have. Ex lung cancer chemo is poison. High risk of taking poison but the benefit outweighs the risk of taking it for better benefits. Ex