NFDN 2003 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Components of SBAR - ✔✔A framework and a clinical pathway
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
clinical pathways (care mapping) - ✔✔-tools used in case management of client care
-mapped out day by day for admission to discharge
Purpose of clinical pathways - ✔✔-critical to meet expected outcomes
-standardized care
Elements of clinical pathways - ✔✔-Client population
-time frames
-interventional categories
-meet expected outcomes
-variance record
Concept Mapping - ✔✔used for:
-abdominal absences
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,-nutrition/ fluid imbalance
-pain
-anxiety
-infection
Mentorship benefits - ✔✔-support of new grade
-foster growth of future generations
-creates long term connections
-role models
Mentorship Pitfalls - ✔✔-Personality conflict
-imposing their style on you
-social issues
time managment skills - ✔✔-anticipate events
-ensure patient safety
-must do vs should do
-prioritize
Risk factors affecting skin integrity - ✔✔-Lifestyle
-Developmental
-Physiological
-Environmental
Red wound - ✔✔-healing wounds, granulation tissue
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, -inflammatory, proliferate, or maturation phase of healing
-need t be kept clean and moist
yellow wound - ✔✔-fibrous slough or exudate
-infected and not ready to heal
-require removal of slough
black wound - ✔✔-Presence of eschar (necrotic tissue)
-not ready to heal
-Must have eschar removed for healing to take place
Combination color - ✔✔-use most severe treatment
serous drainage - ✔✔clear, watery plasma
sanguineous drainage - ✔✔Bright red
serosanguineous drainage - ✔✔Mixture of plasma and red blood cells, pale red and watery
purulent drainage - ✔✔-necrotic tissue
-pus
-thick yellow
-green
-tan
-brown
factors impairing wound healing - ✔✔-infection
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Components of SBAR - ✔✔A framework and a clinical pathway
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
clinical pathways (care mapping) - ✔✔-tools used in case management of client care
-mapped out day by day for admission to discharge
Purpose of clinical pathways - ✔✔-critical to meet expected outcomes
-standardized care
Elements of clinical pathways - ✔✔-Client population
-time frames
-interventional categories
-meet expected outcomes
-variance record
Concept Mapping - ✔✔used for:
-abdominal absences
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,-nutrition/ fluid imbalance
-pain
-anxiety
-infection
Mentorship benefits - ✔✔-support of new grade
-foster growth of future generations
-creates long term connections
-role models
Mentorship Pitfalls - ✔✔-Personality conflict
-imposing their style on you
-social issues
time managment skills - ✔✔-anticipate events
-ensure patient safety
-must do vs should do
-prioritize
Risk factors affecting skin integrity - ✔✔-Lifestyle
-Developmental
-Physiological
-Environmental
Red wound - ✔✔-healing wounds, granulation tissue
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, -inflammatory, proliferate, or maturation phase of healing
-need t be kept clean and moist
yellow wound - ✔✔-fibrous slough or exudate
-infected and not ready to heal
-require removal of slough
black wound - ✔✔-Presence of eschar (necrotic tissue)
-not ready to heal
-Must have eschar removed for healing to take place
Combination color - ✔✔-use most severe treatment
serous drainage - ✔✔clear, watery plasma
sanguineous drainage - ✔✔Bright red
serosanguineous drainage - ✔✔Mixture of plasma and red blood cells, pale red and watery
purulent drainage - ✔✔-necrotic tissue
-pus
-thick yellow
-green
-tan
-brown
factors impairing wound healing - ✔✔-infection
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