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Accountable - Answer answerable for one's actions activities of daily living (ADLs) - Answer personal daily care task, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair care, walking, eating and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring, and toileting acute care - Answer 24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers adaptive devices - Answer special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLs; a...

Why should bed linens remain wrinkle free? - Answer To help keep skin healthy & prevent pressure ulcers What is the term for a device that replaces a missing body part? - Answer Prosthesis What does PROM stand for? - Answer Passive,Range,Of,Motion transfer belt - Answer a belt made of canvas or other heavy material used to help people who are weak, unsteady, or uncoordinated to stand, sit, or walk; also called a gait belt. put over the clothes and grip under with both hands. How is t...

Emesis - Answer See "vomitus" Heartburn - Answer A burning sensation in the chest or throat Hyperglycemia - Answer High sugar in the blood Hypoglycemia - Answer Low sugar in the blood Jaundice - Answer Yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes Vomitus - Answer Food and fluids expelled from the stomach through the mouth; emesis BMs - Answer Bowel Movements GERD - Answer Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease GI - Answer Gastro-Intestinal HBV - Answer Hepatitis B Vir...

Another name for a long-term care facility is: A. Extended care facility B. Home health care facility C. Assisted living facility D. Adult day services facility - Answer A. Extended care facility Assisted living facilities are initially for: A. People who need 24-hour, intensive care B. People who need some help with daily care C. People who will die within six months D. People who need acute care - Answer B. People who need some help with daily care Which of the following statem...

When a resident refuses to let the nursing assistant take her blood pressure, the nursing assistant should - Answer Report this to the nurse One task commonly assigned to nursing assistants is - Answer Helping residents with toileting/elimination needs A nursing assistant may share a resident's medical information with which of the following - Answer Other members of the healthcare team To best communicate with a resident who has a hearing impairment, the nursing assistant should - Ans...

DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA AND COPD □ What is atopy? - Answer - An allergy, involving an inherited immunoglobulin of the IgE type that predisposes a person to certain allergic responses. - Atopic individuals often have asthma, atopic dermatitis (eczema) and allergic rhinitis DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA AND COPD □ What other conditions often go along with asthma? - Answer - Allergic rhinitis - allergic conjunctivitis - eczema and nasal polyps * Some may have sensitivity to NSAIDs DIAGNO...

Biguanide - Answer Metformin (Glucophage) Metformin - Answer - inhibits glucose production - decr glucose absorption in small intestine First Line oral agent, safe in pregnancy - Answer Metformin Sulfonyureas - Answer - glipizide (Glucotrol) - glyburide (Diabeta) - glimeperide (Amaryl) Stimulates release of insulin from Pancreas, has a risk of SCD - Answer Sulfonyureas glipizide - Answer Glucotrol glyburide - Answer Diabeta glimeperide - Answer Amaryl Oral Agent that c...

MOA for insulin - Answer Transports glucose across cell membrane MOA for sulfonurias (glipizide, Glucotrol) - Answer Stimulates insulin secretion MOA for biguanides (metformin) - Answer Reduce hepatic glucose production MOA for Thiazolidinediones (Actos) - Answer Increases peripheral insulin sensitivity MOA for Secretagogues or meglitinides (nateglinide, prandin) - Answer short-term beta cell timulation MOA for alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (acarbose, Precose) - Answer Prevent brea...

Aspirin- MOA - Answer Binds irreversibly to cyclooxyrgenase-1 and 2 (COX 1 and 2) Decrease prostaglandin and thromboxane A2 production Plavix (clopidogrel) -MOA - Answer Produg- irreversibly inhibits P2Y12 ADP-mediated platelet activation and aggregation Boxed warning of Plavix - Answer conversion to active metabolite require (CYP 450 2C19) Poor metabolizers - higher CV events Plavix- avoid to take with what - Answer 2c19 inhibitors (omeprazole, esomeprazole) increased bleed pos...

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