The Scholar's Depot: Where Knowledge Meets Opportunity

What is the proper order for removing PPE? - gloves, goggles, gown, mask What are the benefits of deep breathing exercises for the patient with decreased activity? - improve lung expansion and volume -Help expel anesthetic gases and mucus from airway -Facilitate the oxygenation of body tissues How is the respiratory system affected with decreased activity? - - lungs not ventilating fully - Decreased perfusion - Less oxygen - Mucus accumulated in tracheal - Bronchus passage H...

The advantages of intramuscular absorption include: A. Instantaneous, complete absorption. B. Administration of poorly soluble drugs. C. Convenience of administration. - B What are the three barriers to absorption that exist for drugs administered orally? - Epithelial cell, capillary, p-glycoprotein The rate of absorption may be increased by: A. Smaller surface areas. B. Lower blood flow. C. Lower lipid solubility. D. Ionization of the drug at the site of administration. E. Formu...

Why is it important to use a different swab for each wound when obtaining a culture? - to prevent cross contamination What is assessed when checking an IV site? - ports, infiltration, infection, phlebitis and leaking or soiled dressing When should a peripheral venous access dressing or central venous access dressing be change - if it's soiled, wet and leaking, or loose What technique should be used to change an IV site dressing? - aseptic What technique should be used to flush...

What are the 6 QSEN competencies? - 1. Patient-centered care 2. Teamwork and collaboration 3. Evidence based practice 4. Quality improvement 5. Safety 6. Informatics What is atelectasis? - Incomplete expansion or collapse of a part of the lungs What is hypostatic pneumonia? - A type of pneumonia that results from inactivity and immobility. What are the hazards of immobility on the cardiovascular system? - Orthostatic hypotension, decreased CO = increased workload, increased ri...

Nursing Paradigm - person, health, environment, nursing Cliff Morrison - - Established first AIDS care unit at San Francisco General Hospital - He and his team provided hands-on care to patients even though it was unclear how aids spread at the time American Civil War - - No available professional nurses at the start of the Civil War Post Civil War - - Major push toward formal education and training for nurses - First General training school for nurses in the US in 1872 World W...

A nurse is assessing the urine on a newborn's diaper. What would be a normal assessment finding? - Light in color and odorless An older woman who is a resident of a long-term care facility has to get up and void several times during the night. This can be the result of what physiologic change with normal aging? - Diminished kidney ability to concentrate urine After surgery, a postoperative client has not voided for eight hours. Where would the nurse assess the bladder for distention? ...

Chemistry - The study of the composition, structure, and properties of matter, the processes that matter undergoes, and the energy changes that accompany these processes Chemical property - Relates to a substances ability to undergo changes that transform it into different substances Chemical change/ chemical reaction - A change in which one or more substances are converted into different substances Reactants - The substances that react in a chemical change Products - The substa...

Ionization energy - energy required to remove the least tightly bound electron from a neutral atom in the gas phase Periodic trend of ionization energy - highest at top right-smaller electron=harder to remove Why is a half-filled subshell so stable? - it serves to maximize the stabilizing interactions while minimizing the destabilizing interactions among electrons Exchange interaction - pie, stabilizing, result of electrons pairing in degenerate orbitals with parallel spin Pairin...

Various Isotopes of Hydrogen - Atoms of the same element have the same atomic number (Z= 1), but may have varying mass numbers (A= 1, 2, 3,) Atomic Number - - Number of Protons - Number of Protons = Number of Electrons (in a neutral atom) Atomic Mass Number - - Protons + Neutrons - Electrons are not included in mass calculations because they are much smaller. (1/2000) that of a proton. Atomic Weight - Weighted average of the naturally occurring isotopes of an element. Molar Ma...

Chemistry - the study of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter. Organic Chemistry - the study of the structures that contain the element carbon Inorganic Chemistry - the study of all other substances except those that contain the element carbon Geochemistry - the study of the chemical composition of ores, soils, and minerals of the surface of earth and other planets Measured numbers - are numbers you obtain when you measure a quantity Exact numbers -...