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NUR 210 Principles of Pharmacology
Exams Bundle - Practice Questions and
Answers for Exams Prep / Galen NUR 210
Practice Exams Bundle Latest (new!)
Safety measures nurses take - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Make sure you have the correct patient check
wristband, name and DOB, and correct medical
record, comfortable, and check head of the bed 30
degrees, NG tube nose to esophagus feeding thru
tube.
Nurse role for safety measures - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Accidents are preventable, water spilling, confusion
in patients who do not leave alone, and assisting
patients that can not walk. Use critical thinking
skills as the nurse. If we see something as the
nurse we must say something. Speak up in unsafe
environments because it can prevent injuries.
Between 5 and 7 mins sees the physician in a 24
hour period. The nurse is responsible for physical
assessment, eating, drinking, fever, blood
pressure, using the bathroom. 11 hrs and 53 mins
and at night the full 12 hrs. You have your senses
and equipment and your responsibility to notice
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changes in the patient's status and watch their
safety.
Our job is to make sure that the patient assigned to
us is provided safe, correct, and proper care.
Safety is the number one goal.
Safety in older adults - ...ANSWER...✓✓ fall
prevention, understand what we are telling them,
steadiness, older adult physical comp decreases.
Are they cognitive - something to put something
together to create something else.
Home safety - throw rugs biggest injury factor or
rug runners those rugs that are not taken down
can cause older people to fall and have a hip
injury. The artery in the hip can break the hollow
organ to empty its displaced fracture, can cause
sepsis and can lead to death. 50 percent of people
with a hip injury die in the first year. If you fracture
the femur bone marrow gets exposed cause fat
globules when going back to the inferior vena cava
heart will have fat in it. As it goes into the lungs
and causes a pulmonary clot (Embolism) a fat clot.
50 percent of patients die from pneumonia. Cant
move blood will not be flowing correct, heart will
lower, blood will pool and clot can go to lungs and
cause pulmonary blood clot. The vessels will get
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smaller and will kill the heart muscle. go to
coronary arteries.
Safety Issues - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Radiation can
cause cancer, high freq electrical magnetic
shortwaves gamma rays, and many health related
effects related to radiation. Thyroid is super
sensitive to radiation. Use to protect against
cancer. Chest XRays 1 shot, CAT scan - 1 shot
times the amount of radiation of 100 x ray. As a
nurse you must protect yourself also because it
changes the DNA sequence change in cellular seq.
Make sure the patient is getting safety protocols.
Nurses are exposed to radiation a little bit each
time. If it's a child only xray if the child starts to
show neurological decline. Chances are the child
could have a concussion, confront my physical
assessment same result whether or not CAT scan is
used. If the child is not waking up, confusion.
Risk beneficial ratio - Is there a risk with radiation
treatment? Y - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Yes, it can cause
cancer. Repeated CAT scans increase your risk of
getting cancer. Its more risky to get a CAT scan.
The risk is too high for the benefit its going to
have. Ex lung cancer chemo is poison. High risk of
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taking poison but the benefit outweighs the risk of
taking it for better benefits. Ex child falls off bunk
bed the risk outweighs the benefit of getting a CAT
scan. Put a tattoo to match the radiation beams to
that area. Chemo kill both the bad and the good
cells.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Entire purpose is to
make sure workplace safety protocols are followed.
Body of government to investigate health and
safety issues in a health envo.
ABC extinguisher used for any fire extinguisher
paper, wood, cloth, flannel liquids, electrical
equipment, appliances, and tools. Grease kitchen
fires, paint, and gases. Ex Anesthesia. ABC use on
animal grease.
Burns with children's hot water, the new house
always looks at the thermostat on the boiler.
Certain temp safe for children.
Restraints - ...ANSWER...✓✓ You have to as the
nurse have a physicans order to put restraints on a
patient. You may not as the nurse do it without an
order. Pozzies - Vests Wrist restraints, for
prisoners-leather restraints If violent will have to be
NUR 210 Principles of Pharmacology
Exams Bundle - Practice Questions and
Answers for Exams Prep / Galen NUR 210
Practice Exams Bundle Latest (new!)
Safety measures nurses take - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Make sure you have the correct patient check
wristband, name and DOB, and correct medical
record, comfortable, and check head of the bed 30
degrees, NG tube nose to esophagus feeding thru
tube.
Nurse role for safety measures - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Accidents are preventable, water spilling, confusion
in patients who do not leave alone, and assisting
patients that can not walk. Use critical thinking
skills as the nurse. If we see something as the
nurse we must say something. Speak up in unsafe
environments because it can prevent injuries.
Between 5 and 7 mins sees the physician in a 24
hour period. The nurse is responsible for physical
assessment, eating, drinking, fever, blood
pressure, using the bathroom. 11 hrs and 53 mins
and at night the full 12 hrs. You have your senses
and equipment and your responsibility to notice
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changes in the patient's status and watch their
safety.
Our job is to make sure that the patient assigned to
us is provided safe, correct, and proper care.
Safety is the number one goal.
Safety in older adults - ...ANSWER...✓✓ fall
prevention, understand what we are telling them,
steadiness, older adult physical comp decreases.
Are they cognitive - something to put something
together to create something else.
Home safety - throw rugs biggest injury factor or
rug runners those rugs that are not taken down
can cause older people to fall and have a hip
injury. The artery in the hip can break the hollow
organ to empty its displaced fracture, can cause
sepsis and can lead to death. 50 percent of people
with a hip injury die in the first year. If you fracture
the femur bone marrow gets exposed cause fat
globules when going back to the inferior vena cava
heart will have fat in it. As it goes into the lungs
and causes a pulmonary clot (Embolism) a fat clot.
50 percent of patients die from pneumonia. Cant
move blood will not be flowing correct, heart will
lower, blood will pool and clot can go to lungs and
cause pulmonary blood clot. The vessels will get
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smaller and will kill the heart muscle. go to
coronary arteries.
Safety Issues - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Radiation can
cause cancer, high freq electrical magnetic
shortwaves gamma rays, and many health related
effects related to radiation. Thyroid is super
sensitive to radiation. Use to protect against
cancer. Chest XRays 1 shot, CAT scan - 1 shot
times the amount of radiation of 100 x ray. As a
nurse you must protect yourself also because it
changes the DNA sequence change in cellular seq.
Make sure the patient is getting safety protocols.
Nurses are exposed to radiation a little bit each
time. If it's a child only xray if the child starts to
show neurological decline. Chances are the child
could have a concussion, confront my physical
assessment same result whether or not CAT scan is
used. If the child is not waking up, confusion.
Risk beneficial ratio - Is there a risk with radiation
treatment? Y - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Yes, it can cause
cancer. Repeated CAT scans increase your risk of
getting cancer. Its more risky to get a CAT scan.
The risk is too high for the benefit its going to
have. Ex lung cancer chemo is poison. High risk of
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taking poison but the benefit outweighs the risk of
taking it for better benefits. Ex child falls off bunk
bed the risk outweighs the benefit of getting a CAT
scan. Put a tattoo to match the radiation beams to
that area. Chemo kill both the bad and the good
cells.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Entire purpose is to
make sure workplace safety protocols are followed.
Body of government to investigate health and
safety issues in a health envo.
ABC extinguisher used for any fire extinguisher
paper, wood, cloth, flannel liquids, electrical
equipment, appliances, and tools. Grease kitchen
fires, paint, and gases. Ex Anesthesia. ABC use on
animal grease.
Burns with children's hot water, the new house
always looks at the thermostat on the boiler.
Certain temp safe for children.
Restraints - ...ANSWER...✓✓ You have to as the
nurse have a physicans order to put restraints on a
patient. You may not as the nurse do it without an
order. Pozzies - Vests Wrist restraints, for
prisoners-leather restraints If violent will have to be
