nursing 232 midterm Exam (Graded A+ actual test)

what does sodium do in the body? - ️️EC osmolality Transmembrane potential Acid:base balance Numerous chemical reactions Downward phase of illness - ️️illness course characterized by rapid or gradual physical decline accompanied by increasing disability or difficulty in controlling symptoms; requires biographic adjustment and alterations in everyday life activities with each major downward step stable phase of illness - ️️ilnesses course and symptoms are under control; biography and everyday life activities are being managed within limitations of illness; illness management centred in the home• acute illness - ️️A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover chronic illness - ️️irreversible illness that causes permanent physical impairment and requires long-term health care Phases of Chronic Illness - ️️pretrajectory trajectory stable unstable acute crisis comeback downward dying prejectory phase of illness - ️️genectic factors and lifestyle can put the patient at risk for developing a disease trajectory of illness - ️️pearance of noticeable symptoms; includes period of diagnostic workup and announcement of diagnosis; may be accompanied by biographic limbo as person begins to discover and cope with implications of diagnosis•unstable phase of illness - ️️iod of inability to keep symptoms under control or reactivation of illness; biographic disruption and difficulty in carrying out everyday life activities; adjustments being made in regimen, with care usually taking place at home acute phase of illness - ️️svere and unrelieved symptoms or the development of illness complications necessitating hospitalization or bed rest to bring illness course under control; biography and everyday life activities temporarily placed on hold or drastically cut back Crisis phase of illness - ️️critical or life-threatening situation requiring emergency treatment or care; biography and everyday life activities suspended until the crisis passes comeback phase of illness - ️️gradual return to acceptible way of life within limits aposed by disability needs dying phase of illness - ️️al days or weeks before death; characterized by gradual or rapid shutting down of body processes, biographic disengagement and closure, and relinquishment of everyday life interests and activities SBAR - ️️Situation Background Assessment Recommendation IDRAW - ️️entify the patient, Diagnosis, Recent Changes, Anticipated Changes,What to watch for for legal consent to be valid you must have three components: - ️️disclossure volunatariness capacity three types of consent - ️️Expressed, implied, informed complete blood count includes: - ️️RBC, WBC, and platelets red blood cell test includes - ️️hemoglobin and hemeatocrit differential blood count - ️️Determines the relative percent of each WBC type. Many infections cause an increase or decrease in WBC numbers. PTT test - ️️Partial Thromboplastin Time; 23 to 32 sec PT-INR - ️️prothrombin time/international normalized ratio 09.-1.1 secondsElectrolytes are - ️️Sodium Potassium Chloride Bicarbonate (Total CO2/ content)oMagnesium Phosphate these are ions that carry a charge diabetes testing is: - ️️RBS FBS glucose tolerance test HgB A1c liver function test - ️️bilirubin, Total Protein, Albumin, AST, ALP, GGT-Y, LDH, amylase, ammonia Renal function tests - ️️BUN Creatine Glomerular filtration rate cardiac markers for testing - ️️BNP, CK, CK-MB, myoglobin, troponin I and T Normal sodium levels - ️️135-145 mmol/L