NUR 160 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT WELL
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH A 100 % GUARANTEED
PASS
What does the US Federal drug (FDA) administration do? - ✔✔Ensures safety, efficacy and
security of drugs
What is heparin used for? - ✔✔blood thinner
What lab is drawn for heparin? - ✔✔PTT
What is oxygen safety - ✔✔No smoking, keep away from heat/flames, move tanks slowly,
carefully and hold upright, do not use damaged tank
What is COPD? - ✔✔Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Irreversible decrease in the ability
to force air out of the lungs.
Signs and symptoms of COPD - ✔✔Cough, sputum production, dyspnea, prolonged expiration,
barrel chest, activity intolerance, cyanosis
What are nursing interventions for COPD - ✔✔Encourage activity
Head of bed up
Encourage to inhale through mouth
Administer meds as ordered
Watch lab values
Medications used for copd - ✔✔Antibiotics
Mucolytic agents
,Long acting bronchodilators
What is a PCA pump? - ✔✔patient controlled analgesic - delivers set amount of pain reliever
with push of a button
What do you educate a patient about on a PCA pump? - ✔✔Push buttons when pain starts to
become uncomfortable, before doing something that could cause pain. Can take 5-10 mins to
start working
What do we teach a patient that had a CT with dye? - ✔✔Drink fluids to help flush out contrast
Monitor for side effects like itching, swelling, rash
May be nauseous, dizziness, head, vomiting
steps to obtain blood glucose - ✔✔-disinfect finger
-prick finger and wipe off first drop of blood
-put strip to finger to suck up blood for the glucometer
Signs and symptoms of respiratory acidosis - ✔✔- hypoventilation --> hypoxia
- rapid, shallow respirations
- decrease BP with vasodilation
- dypsnea
- headache
Diarrhea
- hyperkalemia
- dysrhythmias
- muscle weakness
- drowsiness, dizziness, disorientation
, Signs and symptoms of respiratory alkalosis - ✔✔-seizures
-deep, rapid breathing
-hyperventilation
-tachycardia
-decreased or normal BP
-hypokalemia
-numbness and tingling of extremities
-lethargy and confusion
-light headedness
-nausea, vomiting
Signs and symptoms of metabolic acidosis - ✔✔- headache
- decreased BP
- *hyperkalemia*
- *muscle twitching*
- warm, flushed skin (vasodilation)
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- changes in LOC, confusion, increase in drowsiness
- *Kussmal respirations (compensatory hyperventilation)*
Signs and symptoms of metabolic alkalosis - ✔✔- restlessness,
- lethargy
- dysrhythmias,
- *compensatory hypoventilation*
- confusion, decreased LOC, dizzy, irritable
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- *tremors, muscle cramps, tingling of fingers and toes*
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH A 100 % GUARANTEED
PASS
What does the US Federal drug (FDA) administration do? - ✔✔Ensures safety, efficacy and
security of drugs
What is heparin used for? - ✔✔blood thinner
What lab is drawn for heparin? - ✔✔PTT
What is oxygen safety - ✔✔No smoking, keep away from heat/flames, move tanks slowly,
carefully and hold upright, do not use damaged tank
What is COPD? - ✔✔Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Irreversible decrease in the ability
to force air out of the lungs.
Signs and symptoms of COPD - ✔✔Cough, sputum production, dyspnea, prolonged expiration,
barrel chest, activity intolerance, cyanosis
What are nursing interventions for COPD - ✔✔Encourage activity
Head of bed up
Encourage to inhale through mouth
Administer meds as ordered
Watch lab values
Medications used for copd - ✔✔Antibiotics
Mucolytic agents
,Long acting bronchodilators
What is a PCA pump? - ✔✔patient controlled analgesic - delivers set amount of pain reliever
with push of a button
What do you educate a patient about on a PCA pump? - ✔✔Push buttons when pain starts to
become uncomfortable, before doing something that could cause pain. Can take 5-10 mins to
start working
What do we teach a patient that had a CT with dye? - ✔✔Drink fluids to help flush out contrast
Monitor for side effects like itching, swelling, rash
May be nauseous, dizziness, head, vomiting
steps to obtain blood glucose - ✔✔-disinfect finger
-prick finger and wipe off first drop of blood
-put strip to finger to suck up blood for the glucometer
Signs and symptoms of respiratory acidosis - ✔✔- hypoventilation --> hypoxia
- rapid, shallow respirations
- decrease BP with vasodilation
- dypsnea
- headache
Diarrhea
- hyperkalemia
- dysrhythmias
- muscle weakness
- drowsiness, dizziness, disorientation
, Signs and symptoms of respiratory alkalosis - ✔✔-seizures
-deep, rapid breathing
-hyperventilation
-tachycardia
-decreased or normal BP
-hypokalemia
-numbness and tingling of extremities
-lethargy and confusion
-light headedness
-nausea, vomiting
Signs and symptoms of metabolic acidosis - ✔✔- headache
- decreased BP
- *hyperkalemia*
- *muscle twitching*
- warm, flushed skin (vasodilation)
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- changes in LOC, confusion, increase in drowsiness
- *Kussmal respirations (compensatory hyperventilation)*
Signs and symptoms of metabolic alkalosis - ✔✔- restlessness,
- lethargy
- dysrhythmias,
- *compensatory hypoventilation*
- confusion, decreased LOC, dizzy, irritable
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- *tremors, muscle cramps, tingling of fingers and toes*
