NSG 3100 Rehearsal Exam Toolkit Questions and Verified Marking Scheme 2024/2025
How do we determine if a patient is at risk for aspiration and what should we do? - correct answer Consult speech therapist to perform swallow study and thicken foods
How do we check gi placement? - correct answer...
How do we determine if a patient is at risk for aspiration and
what should we do? - correct answer Consult speech therapist
to perform swallow study and thicken foods
How do we check gi placement? - correct answer Aspirate
contents and check w/ PH strip
Confirm measurement marked on tube - correct answer Check
GI placement
When do we hold residual gastric contents? - correct answer
Hold if it's more than 100 ml
Do we warm tube feeding - correct answer Yes to room
temperature
What makes the bolus feeding infuse faster - correct answer
Gravity - hung high
More open clamp
What does aspiration lead too? - correct answer Pneumonia
How high do we raise the bed when administering feedings -
correct answer At least 30 degrees
,What is parental nutrition ? - correct answer Liquid nutrition
delivered directly into the bloodstream
What is total parental nutrition ? - correct answer Long term
Feeding delivered through large vein in arm neck or chest
What is peripheral parental nutrition ? - correct answer Short
term delivered through a small vein in the arm with iv
Who is tpn used for? - correct answer Patients w/ severe
malnutrition
Severe burns
Bowel disease disorder
Acute renal failure
Hepatic failure
Metastatic cancer
Major surgeries NPO for 5 days
What does a TPN solution consist of? - correct answer Dextrose
10-50% , water fat proteins electrolytes vitamins and trace
solution
Tpn factss - correct answer Surgical asepsis when changing
solution tubes dressing or filters
High in glucose , started gradually
When discontinued . Infusion rate is decreased to avoid
hypoglycemia
, How are body fluids distributed ? - correct answer Intracellular
fluids (icf)
Extra cellular fluid
- intravascular (plasma)
- interstitial
What happens in the body when blood presssure is low? -
correct answer Kidneys sense a decrease & release renin from
the juxtaglomulsr apparatus (JgA)
Renin converts angiosiogen to angiosen 1
In the lungs angiotisen - converting enzyme (ace) coverts
agiotisen 1 to angiotisen 11
Angiotisen 2 causes vasoconstriction- increased bp
&srimulstes adrenal glands to release aldosterone
In kidneys aldosterone promotes reabsortion of sodium and
water increasing bp
What is fluid balance linked and effected by? - correct answer
Electrolyte concentration
How much water should we have a day ? - correct answer 2-3
liters
What does insensible water loss mean? - correct answer Water
loss through skin lungs & stool 500 to 1 L
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