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NUR 219 EXAM SMART PASS A+ vv vv vv vv vv




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What are the hospital national patient safety goals? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Identify Patients correctly
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Improve staff communication vv vv




Use alarms safely
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Prevent infection vv




Identify patient safety risks
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Prevent mistakes in surgery
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How do you identify patients correctly? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Using two patient identifiers (name and
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DOB)
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How do you improve staff communication? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Get important test results to the
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right staff person on time.
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How do you use medicines safely? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Before a procedure label meds that are not
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labeled.
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Take extra care with patients who take medicines to thin their blood.
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Record and pass along correct info about a patient's meds. Find out what meds the patient is taking.
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Compare those meds to new meds given to the patient. Give the patient written info about the meds
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, they need to take. Tell the patient it is important to bring their up-to-date list of meds every time they
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visit a doctor.
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How do you use alarms safely? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Make improvements to ensure that alarms on
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medical equipment are heard and responded to.
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How do you prevent infection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Use hand-cleaning guidelines from the Centers
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for disease control and Prevention or the world health organization. Set goals for improving hand
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cleaning. Use the goals to improve hand cleaning.
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How do you identify patient safety risks? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Reduce the risk for suicide.
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How do you prevent mistakes in surgery? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Make sure that the correct surgery is
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done on the correct patient and at the correct place on the patient's body.
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Mark the correct place on the patient's body where the surgery is to be done.
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Pause before the surgery to make sure that a mistake is not being made.
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What is the patho of cirrhosis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Hepatic scarring or fibrosis
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-Liver becomes filled with fibrous tissue "scarring of the liver"
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-Fat storing cells overtake the liver
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cells fill up with fat
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What can cause cirrhosis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Anything that can "scar" the liver in scar-hosis.
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-chronic hepatitis with inflammation vv vv vv

, -cystic fibrosis-where we get serious mucus in cystic fibrosis-this mucus can build up and clog the entire
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body including the liver
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What does the liver do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The liver acts like a recycling company.
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**4 Major roles and responsibilities:
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-Detoxing ammonia-waste product of protein vv vv vv vv




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-Producing -bile -coagulation factor -and albumin vv vv vv vv vv




The liver produces? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔ABC
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-Albumin

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What does albumin do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔3 things:
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-Transports drugs in the body vv vv vv vv




-Also attracts water to stay in the vascular spaces
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-Binds with calcium vv vv vv




Memory trick it attracts drugs, water and calcium like ALpacino for movie scarface for SCARohsis
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What happens when we have hypoalbuminemia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The body fails to produce
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albumin
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-So it gets hypoalbuminemia
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-So drugs don't get transported properly and water builds up in the body, edema and third spacing, leads
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to ascites
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