NU 203- Test 3 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Paper charting Principles - Answer✔✔-Start of section
Appearance of paper charting should be... - Answer✔✔-- black ballpoint pen
- Date and time at the beginning
-Signature & title at end
- legible
Do's and Don'ts of paper charting - Answer✔✔-- erase or use correction fluid
- DO cross out with one line
- DO initial it
- DO correct error
- no blank lines (exception: PCC NN)
- No blank spaces before your signature (draw a line)
PCC charting starts with? - Answer✔✔-one minute assessment
Narrative note - Answer✔✔-• Brief summary of pts progress and findings
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Medication Administration - Answer✔✔-Done per facility policy
Rounding form - Answer✔✔-What is done hourly and after pt events
Nutrition in Healthcare - Answer✔✔-New section
Supplements (PO) provide? - Answer✔✔-1. increase chloric intake
2. provide vitamins and minerals
3. help with nutritional deficiencies
snacks not meal substitutes that help in Med. Administration.... - Answer✔✔-- boost
- Carnation Instant
- Ensure
- MightyShakes
- Med Pass
protein supplements - Answer✔✔-powered or liquid that promote muscle and wound healing,
curbs appetite, contraindicated for renal disease
Types of protein supplements - Answer✔✔-Glucerna: low carb (diabetic pt)
Beneprtein: high PRO
Benefiber: high fiber
Juven: aids in tissue repair/ wound healing
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Enteral Nutrition is for? - Answer✔✔-pts who can't eat normally
Indication for Enteral Nutrition - Answer✔✔-- impaired swallowing
- Major nutritional deficits
- Decreased LOC
- facial or mouth fractures
- critically ill
Note: Must have working GI tract which is indicated by active bowel sounds
Feeding Tubes - Answer✔✔-nasogastric NG
nasoduodenal ND
nasojejunal NJ
Gastric vs. Enteric Tubes - Answer✔✔-Gastric: stomach
- faster feedings
- more aspiration risk
Enteric: intestines
- slower feeding
- less of aspiration risk
gastrostomy - Answer✔✔-opening created into the stomach; longterm feeding tubes
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