NUR 430

Primordial Prevention - Answer Initiatives that prevent conditions that would enable risk factors to develop How do we set up our society, convenience stores away from schools? Conditions to improve diet and exercise E.g. more walkable city, harm reduction Primary Prevention - Answer Impact of specific risk factors is lessened E.g. diabetes - soda tax, made water a drink of choice. It is upstream Secondary Prevention - Answer Early identification of disease and conditions and ...

Health - Answer A dynamic process with multiple assumptions that evolve over time and vary with professional perspectives. Indigenous perspective of health - Answer A balance of body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Involves family and community, and often nature. Health promotion - Answer The process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health. Empowerment is key. Population health promotion - Answer Taking action on the interrelated conditions that af...

An 18-year-old female patient is brought to the emergency department due to drug overdose. Which of the following routes of administration is the most desirable for administering the antidote for the drug overdose? A. Intramuscular. B. Subcutaneous. C. Transdermal. D. Oral. E. Intravenous. - Answer E. Intravenous. The intravenous route of administration is the most desirable because it results in achievement of therapeutic plasma levels of the antidote rapidly. KR2250 is an inves...

Define decision making: - Answer a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course of action making a selection and implementing a course of action from a group of alternatives Define problem solving: - Answer a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a difficult situation an active process that starts with a problem and ends with a solution Define critical thinking: - Answer purposeful, outcome-directed thinking that is based on a body of knowle...

resuscitation phase of burns - Answer cardiopulmonary instability, life-threatening airway and breathing problems, hypovolemia (until about day 4) - o2 alterations from CO poisoning, upper airway obstruction, chemical pneumonitis - focus on ABCs - assess breath sounds, administer O2, monitor HbCO levels, elevate HOB, prepare for intubation - fluid resuscitation using parkland formula. can give colloids one capillary leak seals to decrease edema - Answer interventions for resuscitati...

OPO - Answer Organ Procurement Organization - Early notification of OPO necessary - NEVER mention donation to the families as a nurse - IDN should be involved at the earliest possible moment - Exactly when donation is discussed varies, but IDN should be the one approaching the families, not nursing staff When do I refer OPO? - Answer - Any cardiac death (tissue donation, call with cardiac arrest of any type) For vented patients, call with any of the following: - GCS of </= 5...

A nurse who is caring for a patient with tracheostomy tube in place has just auscultated rhonchi bilaterally. If the patient is unsuccessful in coughing up secretions, what action should the nurse take? a. encourage increased incentive spirometer b. encourage the patient to increase oral fluid intake c. put on sterile gloves and use sterile catheter to suction d. preoxygenate the patient for 3 minutes before suctioning - Answer c A patient with a tracheostomy has a new order for a fe...

Delegation: - Answer getting work done through others -directing others to accomplish goals -learned skill -giving someone else the authority to complete a task or action on your behalf -transferring or handing off to a competent individual, the authority to perform a task/activity in a specific setting/situation When should delegation be used? - Answer for assigning routine tasks and tasks for which the manager does not have time -also appropriate as a tool for problem s...