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D439 Foundations of Nursing Test Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update what can cause high blood pressure readings? - Answers Anxiety, wrong cuff size, talking, legs crossed, arm not being level with heart, pain, dehydration, fever/infection, hyponatremia, weight, alcohol/smoking, opioids, hypovolemia, hyper/hypokalemia, hyper/hypocalcemia no radial pulse at 90 - Answers PUMP TO 120 how much to pump cuff - Answers at least 30 mm Hg above the point the radial pulse disappears potassium levels involved - Answers heart: helps the heart squeeze high potassium levels - Answers high apical pulse rate and rhythm nursing charts by exception- lungs - Answers LUNG SOUNDS DIMINISHED IN LEFT LUNG not normal nasal cannula care: if patient has reddened areas around cheekbones - Answers PLACE PADDING AROUND THE CANNULA TUBING nasal cannula care: if patient's O2 readings improve with movement - Answers place the nasal cannula in the nose securely nasal cannula care: O2 levels low - Answers VERIFY PLACEMENT OF PULSE OXIMETER Oxygen chamber - Answers store in a cool area Fall Prevention "H" - Answers Hourly rounds: check on patient HOURLY Fall prevention "O" - Answers Organize belongings: use bed alarms Fall Prevention "P" - Answers Position changes slow: ensure slow position changes and keep everything needed within reach Fall Prevention "E" - Answers Ensure lighting is sufficient: For elderly patients keep a well lit room patient has sleep apnea and given sedative - Answers MAKE SURE AIRWAY PRESSURE DEVICE IS ON restraint types - Answers chemical & physical restraint knot - Answers slip knots restraint tying area - Answers BED FRAME ONLY chemical restraints - Answers meds such as benzos first thing to assess after restraint - Answers CAPILLARY REFILL when to check capillary refill when restrained - Answers immediately and every 15 mins other checks when restrained - Answers skin integrity, vital signs, ROM every 2 hours; offer bathroom every 2 hours restraint documentation - Answers reasoning, mental status, care offered, time in restraints restraint order time - Answers ONLY last 24 hours urine specific gravity test use - Answers identify dehydration, kidney problems, conditions like diabetes insipidus urine specific gravity test & range - Answers concentration of particles in urine; 1.005- 1.030 high urine specific gravity test - Answers HIGH = YOU'RE DRY/ DEHYDRATED = VOMITING/DIARRHEA low urine specific gravity test - Answers "overflow" kidney damage, kidney failure pressure ulcers - Answers "1 red, 2 broken, 3 deep, 4 bone" red intact skin, break with blister, deep tissue, bone visible pressure ulcers stage 1 - Answers red intact skin pressure ulcers stage 2 - Answers skin breaks & blisters; 2 layers affected (epidermis, dermis) pressure ulcers stage 3 - Answers full thickness skin loss; 3 layers affected (epi, dermis, sub-q tissue) pressure ulcers stage 4 - Answers goes down into muscle and bone; 4 layers pressure ulcers unstageable - Answers eschar (black/brown dead tissue) and slough (yellow and stringy) make it impossible to see; perform debridement pressure ulcers deep tissue - Answers purple and dead; over bony prominences; thirty degree lateral inclined position releases pressure scale used to measure risk of ulcers - Answers braden scale; 1=high risk, 4=low to none MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) - Answers "MRS. A" mask, red swelling, separate room, antibiotics (vancomycin)" MRSA precautions - Answers INSTITUTE CONTACT PRECAUTIONS: mask, gloves, gown, spreads through contact separate room MRSA prevention - Answers PPE, hand hygiene MRSA S/S - Answers red swollen area, drainage, abscess, can cause sepsis MRSA increased risk - Answers weakened immune system, extended hospital stays, surgeries MRSA Tx - Answers CULTURE WITH SENSITIVITY, antibiotics (vancomycin), topical antibiotic,

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D439 Foundations of Nursing Test Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update
20025-2026

what can cause high blood pressure readings? - Answers Anxiety, wrong cuff size, talking, legs
crossed, arm not being level with heart, pain, dehydration, fever/infection, hyponatremia, weight,
alcohol/smoking, opioids, hypovolemia, hyper/hypokalemia, hyper/hypocalcemia

no radial pulse at 90 - Answers PUMP TO 120

how much to pump cuff - Answers at least 30 mm Hg above the point the radial pulse
disappears

potassium levels involved - Answers heart: helps the heart squeeze

high potassium levels - Answers high apical pulse rate and rhythm

nursing charts by exception- lungs - Answers LUNG SOUNDS DIMINISHED IN LEFT LUNG not
normal

nasal cannula care: if patient has reddened areas around cheekbones - Answers PLACE
PADDING AROUND THE CANNULA TUBING

nasal cannula care: if patient's O2 readings improve with movement - Answers place the nasal
cannula in the nose securely

nasal cannula care: O2 levels low - Answers VERIFY PLACEMENT OF PULSE OXIMETER

Oxygen chamber - Answers store in a cool area

Fall Prevention "H" - Answers Hourly rounds: check on patient HOURLY

Fall prevention "O" - Answers Organize belongings: use bed alarms

Fall Prevention "P" - Answers Position changes slow: ensure slow position changes and keep
everything needed within reach

Fall Prevention "E" - Answers Ensure lighting is sufficient: For elderly patients keep a well lit
room

patient has sleep apnea and given sedative - Answers MAKE SURE AIRWAY PRESSURE DEVICE
IS ON

restraint types - Answers chemical & physical

restraint knot - Answers slip knots

restraint tying area - Answers BED FRAME ONLY

, chemical restraints - Answers meds such as benzos

first thing to assess after restraint - Answers CAPILLARY REFILL

when to check capillary refill when restrained - Answers immediately and every 15 mins

other checks when restrained - Answers skin integrity, vital signs, ROM every 2 hours; offer
bathroom every 2 hours

restraint documentation - Answers reasoning, mental status, care offered, time in restraints

restraint order time - Answers ONLY last 24 hours

urine specific gravity test use - Answers identify dehydration, kidney problems, conditions like
diabetes insipidus

urine specific gravity test & range - Answers concentration of particles in urine; 1.005- 1.030

high urine specific gravity test - Answers HIGH = YOU'RE DRY/ DEHYDRATED =
VOMITING/DIARRHEA

low urine specific gravity test - Answers "overflow" kidney damage, kidney failure

pressure ulcers - Answers "1 red, 2 broken, 3 deep, 4 bone"



red intact skin, break with blister, deep tissue, bone visible

pressure ulcers stage 1 - Answers red intact skin

pressure ulcers stage 2 - Answers skin breaks & blisters; 2 layers affected (epidermis, dermis)

pressure ulcers stage 3 - Answers full thickness skin loss; 3 layers affected (epi, dermis, sub-q
tissue)

pressure ulcers stage 4 - Answers goes down into muscle and bone; 4 layers

pressure ulcers unstageable - Answers eschar (black/brown dead tissue) and slough (yellow
and stringy) make it impossible to see; perform debridement

pressure ulcers deep tissue - Answers purple and dead; over bony prominences; thirty degree
lateral inclined position releases pressure

scale used to measure risk of ulcers - Answers braden scale; 1=high risk, 4=low to none

MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) - Answers "MRS. A" mask, red swelling,
separate room, antibiotics (vancomycin)"

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