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Remaining still for hours, sitting for long periods of time, anything that prevents circulation -
Precise Answer ✔✔ Clients at risk for DVT
- Handrails in bathrooms
- Ramps instead of stairs
- Wear rubber sole shoes
- Avoid scatter rugs
- Prevent clutter
- Avoid slippery floors - Precise Answer ✔✔Prevention of falls
- Increased intraocular pressure in a hollow organ.
- When the intraocular pressure increase it leads to compression of the retinal blood vessels
and photoreceptors and their nerve fibers resulting in hypoxemia and death of the tissue and
loss of vision.
- Assure the patient can administer own eye drops correctly
- Keep follow-up appointments every 1-3 months to evaluate the IOP.
- If the patient had surgical treatment be sure to educate on the S&S of hemorrhage and
detachment including severe pain, and vision loss. These should be reported immediately to
HCP. - Precise Answer ✔✔
Glaucoma teaching and pathophysiology
, - Maintain perfusion, improve comfort, and prevent impaired mobility - Precise Answer
✔✔ Prioritization of care for a fracture
- Handle with the palms of your hands, have patient report painful "hot spots" under the cast
which might indicate area of pressure necrosis, instruct patient to never put anything down
into the cast, encourage the patient/family to smell the area for mustiness or unpleasant
odor (if ignored the patient may develop a fever).
- Assess skin color and temperature, sensation, mobility, pain, capillary refill, and pulses
distal to the fracture site. CMS- circulation, movement, and sensation. - Precise Answer
✔✔Cast education and assessment
- Infection of the bone. May be acute or chronic.
- Educate about medications, encourage compliance and to follow regimen (take full course
of medications), inform about signs and symptoms, provide comfort during rest and with
positioning, assist in ADL, coordinate physical therapy while in the hospital to help improve
mobility especially after surgery, provide mobility assistance devices. - Precise Answer
✔✔Osteomyelitis prevention and treatment methods
- Gonioscopy is used when elevation intraocular pressure is diagnosed to determine if the
glaucoma is open-angle or closed-angle. It allows the visualization of the angle where the iris
meets the cornea. - Precise Answer ✔✔Test to determine open vs closed angle glaucoma
- CMS: circulation, mobility, sensation. Assess skin color, temperature, sensation, mobility,
pain, capillary refill, and pulses. - Precise Answer ✔✔ Neurovascular assessment
- P: Palliative, Q: Quality, R: Region, S: Scale, T: Time - Precise Answer ✔✔Pain assessment
- The great toe shifts laterally, and the first metatarsal head of the great toe enlarges
- Pain especially when shoes are worn
- Treatment: custom made shoes or surgery - Precise Answer ✔✔Bunions (hallux valgus)