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Test Bank for Concepts for Nursing Practice 4th Edition by Jean Foret Giddens All Chapters 1
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Test Bank for Concepts for Nursing Practice 4th Editionby Jean Foret Giddens All Chapters 1-57 LATEST
Pharmacokinetic Processes - ANSWER Includes medication absorption,
distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
Constant Blood Level - ANSWER Goal of maintaining a safe therapeutic range.
Medication Allergies - ANSWER Recorded for patients in healthcare agencies.
Metric Units - ANSWER Organized into units of 10 for easy conversion.
Distractions in Medication Administration - ANSWER May lead to medication errors.
Ten Rights of Medication Administration - ANSWER Include right medication, dose,
patient, route, time, documentation, indication, evaluation, refusal, and health
education.
Time Critical Medications - ANSWER Require timely administration to avoid harm.
Physical Assessment - ANSWER Reveals indications or contraindications for
medication therapy.
Medication Administration Responsibilities - ANSWER Include knowing
therapeutics, assessing, calculating doses, monitoring effects, and evaluating
patient's self-administration ability.
Infection Chain Elements - ANSWER If present and uninterrupted, can lead to
infection transmission.
Normal Body Flora - ANSWER Helps the body resist infection by reducing
pathogenic organisms.
Vascular Response to Inflammation - ANSWER Includes rapid vasodilation,
redness, warmth, and increased WBCs.
Healthcare-Associated Infections - ANSWER Lead to adverse events and higher
costs.
Factors Affecting Susceptibility to Infection - ANSWER Include poor nutrition, stress,
chronic disease, and compromised immune response.
Localized Infection Signs - ANSWER Include swelling, redness, pain, and restricted
movement.
, Systemic Inflammation Symptoms - ANSWER Include fever, fatigue, nausea,
malaise, and swollen lymph nodes.
Basic Medical Aseptic Techniques - ANSWER Such as handwashing, break the
chain of infection.
Surgical Asepsis - ANSWER Involves sterile gloving and is more stringent.
Standard Precautions - ANSWER Applied in all patient care activities to prevent
infection transmission.
Hand Hygiene - ANSWER Most effective in preventing infection transmission.
Transmission-Based Precautions - ANSWER Include airborne, droplet, contact, and
protective environment precautions.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - ANSWER Protects against pathogen
transmission.
Types of Loss - ANSWER Include loss of known environment, significant other,
aspect of self, or life itself.
Grief Experience - ANSWER Personal process involving different forms of grief.
Normal grief - ANSWER A common and universal reaction characterized by
complex emotional, cognitive, social, physical, behavioral, and spiritual responses to
loss and death.
Anticipatory grief - ANSWER Occurs before an actual loss, especially in situations of
prolonged or predicted loss.
Grief theories - ANSWER Provide knowledge on normal responses to loss, aiding in
understanding complex experiences and assisting in helping a grieving person.
Development - ANSWER Influences how a person perceives and responds to loss
and grief, impacted by coping strategies, socioeconomic status, personal
relationships, nature of loss, and cultural and spiritual beliefs.
Assessing grief - ANSWER Requires exploration of the person's unique history,
context, and resources to make meaning out of their loss experiences.
Palliative care - ANSWER Involves establishing a caring presence, using effective
communication strategies, and collaborating with the healthcare team to provide
holistic care for symptom management and support measures.
End-of-life care - ANSWER Focuses on improving quality of life through symptom
management, with pain assessment being a common priority for ongoing evaluation
of interventions.
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