Standards of nursing practice - Answer-assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation
Professional performance for nursing - Answer-ethics, education, EBP, and research
Deontology - Answer-an ethical theory that stresses the rightness or wrongness of individuals behaviors, dut...
NUR 218 Exam 1 Material Questions and
Answers
Standards of nursing practice - Answer-assessment, diagnosis, planning,
implementation and evaluation
Professional performance for nursing - Answer-ethics, education, EBP, and research
Deontology - Answer-an ethical theory that stresses the rightness or wrongness of
individuals behaviors, duties, and obligations without concern for the consequences of
specific action
Utilitarianism - Answer-behaviors are determined solely on basis of consequences
needs of the many over needs of the few
Intentional torts - Answer-assault, battery, defamation of character, false imprisonment,
and invasion of privacy
Unintentional torts - Answer-caused by negligence, unintentional
may be charged with malpractice
Asepsis - Answer-freedom from and prevention of disease-causing contamination
Example of blood borne pathogens - Answer-Hep B, C
HIV
An acute infection usually lasts for how long? - Answer-10-14 days
Normal WBC count - Answer-4500-10500 cells / mm cubed
If there is a greater number of ________ in a differential WBC count it is a sign of
infection - Answer-neutrophils
Alopecia - Answer-hair follicles completely die and total absence of hair
Excoriation - Answer-red, scaly areas with surface loss of skin tissue that occurs from
chafing and exposure to bodily fluids
Halitosis - Answer-bad breath
(can result from diabetic ketoacidosis or renal failure)
Patients with _____ should not soak their feet due to drying of the tissue and risk of
infection - Answer-peripheral neuropathy
, What are the therapeutic benefits of massage? - Answer-relaxation, comfort, increases
circulation and promotes sleep
Effleurage - Answer-long hand movements along the back muscle with circle at the top
and circle at bottom
Petrissage - Answer-deep tissue massage with lots of kneading
Tapotement - Answer-a tapping of percussing motion with palm of hand that you don't
do over the kidney area
Patients who are NPO or intubated need oral care how often? - Answer-every two hours
via a toothbrush or toothete
Muscle atrophy - Answer-muscle wasting
Contracture - Answer-permanent joint fixation that can occur within hours of disuse
Footdrop - Answer-any kind of contracture that results in permanent plantar flexion
Pathologic bone fracture - Answer-spontaneous fractures without trauma from loss of
calcium and bone mass
Fibrous joints - Answer-immobile
Cartilaginous joints - Answer-slightly movable
Synovial joints - Answer-movable
Flaccidity / hypotonicity - Answer-lack of muscle tone that may result from lack of
physical activity, injury or neurologic impairment
Spasticity / hypertonicity - Answer-increased muscle tone
Hemiparesis - Answer-weakness on one side of the body
Hemiplegia - Answer-paralysis on one side of the body
Paraplegia - Answer-lower body paralysis due to lower spinal cord trauma
Quadriplegia - Answer-inability to move all four extremities and difficulty breathing
caused by cervical spinal cord trauma
If blood pressure decreases by more than ______ mmHg when changing positions,
there is a problem - Answer-20 mmHg
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