When two nursing diagnoses appear closely related, what should the nurse do to
determine which diagnoses is the most accurate? - ✔️✔️Review the defining
characteristics
C. Diff precautions - ✔️✔️contact
What can you do to protect the pt from an infection at the portal of entry? -
✔️✔️Position their catheter bag below the level of the pts pelvis.
Why would a pt need breaks during a bed bath? - ✔️✔️increase O2 consumption.
What step of the nursing process is done when the nurse comes to the conclusion that
a pts elevated temp, puls, and respirations are significiant? - ✔️✔️Diagnoses
Wet to damp gauze - ✔️✔️Facilitates the healing process (cells move better across a
wet surface)
Restraints should be removed every... - ✔️✔️2 hours
Puncture wounds - ✔️✔️put you at the greatest risk for infections because they are
deep
Skin protects the body because - ✔️✔️the cells of the skins are constantly being
replaced.
Sims position - ✔️✔️legs up
Prone position - ✔️✔️on belly
lateral position - ✔️✔️on side
high fowlers position - ✔️✔️sitting up
A pt is ready to learn - ✔️✔️when they express the want and need to learn.
Threads - ✔️✔️components integral to provision of nursing care
, Threads examples - ✔️✔️professionalism, caring, ethics
Concepts - ✔️✔️classification system
concepts examples - ✔️✔️biophysical, psychosocial, life phases, professional practice
History of nursing is based on - ✔️✔️War, technology, gender, and religion
Renaissance - ✔️✔️science and technology, Elizabethian Poor law
Industrial Revolution - ✔️✔️migration to cities, Henry street settlement for immigrants
Crimean War - ✔️✔️outcry in great britain for soldier care
Theories - ✔️✔️How and why we do what we do. Describes, explains, and predicts HC
Florence Nightingale - ✔️✔️Environmental Theory
Jean Watson - ✔️✔️Caring theory
Hildegard Peplau - ✔️✔️Interpersonal Theory
Virginia Henderson - ✔️✔️Needs theory
Needs theory - ✔️✔️achieve independed based on 14 human needs
Betty Neuman - ✔️✔️Systems theory
Sister Callista Roy - ✔️✔️adaptation model
Madeleine Leinenger - ✔️✔️Trancultural care theory
Infectious Agents - ✔️✔️bacteria, spores, virus, rickettiae, protozoa, fungi
Resevoir Host - ✔️✔️people, water, vectors, equipment, food
Portal of Exit - ✔️✔️airborne, direct contact, secretions, excretions, droplet
Route of transmission - ✔️✔️direct contact, fomites (objects), airborne, ingestion,
sharps
Portal of Entry - ✔️✔️Mucous membranes, GI tract, respiratory tract, skin, GU tract,
IV/intubation