NUR 172 Hondros Final Questions and Correct Answers

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NUR 172 Hondros Final Questions and
Correct Answers

Question: What is beneficience?
Answer: doing good for patients


Question: What is veracity?
Answer: truthfulness


Question: What is justice?
Answer: obligation to be fair to all people


Question: What is nonmaleficence?
Answer: doing no harm to patients


Question: What is fidelity?
Answer: obligation to be faithful


Question: What is autonomy?
Answer: right to self-determination; independence


Question: What is a peripheral nerve catheter?
Answer: A form a pain relief at surgery site; small plastic catheter placed
under the skin where nerves provide feeling to the area where surgery
will be performed


Question: What would you teach your patient about the peripheral
nerve catheter?
Answer: Can remove bandages and catheter after return of sensation (12
hours), must keep dressing over catheter clean and dry, avoid hot/cold
objects and keep extremity close to body, s/s of infection

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Question: If the patient notices the dressing of the peripheral nerve
catheter coming off before sensation returns, what should you instruct
them to do?
Answer: Reinforce with tape, DO NOT remove the dressing


Question: True or False: the patient should not take a shower or tub
bath while the catheter is in place.
Answer: True - patient should do a sponge bath instead


Question: What are the goals of IV therapy?
Answer: Maintenance, replacement, restoration of homeostasis


Question: Maintenance therapy
Answer: provides nutrients that meet the daily needs of a patient for
water, electrolytes, and dextrose


Question: Replacement therapy
Answer: necessary to take care of fluid, electrolyte, or blood product
deficits of patients in acute distress


Question: Restoration
Answer: when maintenance and replacement therapy don't meet the
needs of the patient, fluid and electrolyte management is accomplished
through this


Question: What is the preferred antiseptic agent recommended by INS?
Answer: Chlorhexidine


Question: How long should the needless connector be scrubbed for?
Answer: 15 seconds


Question: Why is the saline lock (formerly: hep-lock) primed before it is
attached to the hub of the catheter during IV insertion?

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Answer: to avoid air embolism


Question: What is hematoma?
Answer: Infiltration of blood into tissues at ventipuncture site


Question: S/S of hematoma
Answer: discoloration of skin, swelling and discomfort, inability to
advance cannula into vein, resistance to pressure during flushing


Question: Prevention of hematoma
Answer: use indirect method for starting a PIV


Question: Treatment of hematoma
Answer: removal of catheter, direct pressure on site with gauze, elevate
extremity, apply ice to affected area


Question: What is thrombosis?
Answer: catheter related obstruction


Question: S/S of thrombosis
Answer: fever, malaise, slowed or stopped infusion rate, inability to flush
catheter


Question: Treatment for thrombosis
Answer: Remove IV, notify MD - NEVER flush cannula to remove occlusion


Question: What is inflitration?
Answer: Inadvertent administration of nonvesicant solution to
surrounding tissues


Question: S/S of infiltration
Answer: swollen, cool, taut, pale skin



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