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NFDN 1002 Final
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NFDN 1002 Final02 therapy - ✅✅ --prevent tissue hypoxia
-decrease effort of breathing
-decrease workload on heart
-treat as a drug
-continuously monitor dose
-physician describes
Acceptance - ✅✅-the individual accepts the loss and begins to look at the
future
Actual loss -✅✅-loss of a body part, a child, a relationship, role at work
Acute pain - ✅✅--protective pain; with identifiable cause
-Resolved with/out treatment after healing occurs
-Older adults; unrelieved acute pain can result in prolonged hospitalization
Adjuvants - ✅✅ -Co-analgesics
-drugs that are originally developed to treat conditions other than pain but
have been shown to have analgesic properties
-used for acute or chronic pain
-anticonvulsant
Anger - ✅✅-individual resists the loss and may strike out at everyone and
everything
Anticipatory grief - ✅✅ -process of disengaging or letting go that occurs
before an actual loss or death has occurred
Assertiveness training - ✅✅ -comprises of skills that help individuals
communicate their needs and desires effectively.
-the ability to resolve conflict through assertiveness training is important fro
reducing stress
assessment for oxygenation - ✅✅-respiratory assessment (inspection,
palpation, auscultation)
Assessment of urine - ✅✅--Intake and output
,assessment techniques and observations necessary to assess the holistic
✅✅
needs of your client, and their family, experiencing loss, grief and death -
--assessing survivors to feel the loss, express the loss and complete the
stages of the grief process.
-do not assume how or whether the patient or family experiences grief
-encourge the patient to tell their stories
-patient and families should be interviews separately unless a patient requests
having family members present
✅✅
Assuming the client recognizes they aren't getting enough sleep, what
questions might the nurse need to ask? - --Characteristics of the clients
sleep problems
-usual sleep habits
-what they do before bed
-how long it takes them to fall asleep
-how long do they sleep for
-when do they go to bed
Asthma - ✅✅ --a chronic or long term, condition that intermittently inflames
and narrows the airways in the lungs
Bargaining - ✅✅ -individual postpones awareness of realist of the loss and
may try to deal in a subtle or overt way as though the loss can be prevented
Barium enema - ✅✅ --an x-ray exam that can detect changes or
abnormalities in the large intestine (colon)
-the procedure is also called a colon x-ray
-it is the injection of a liquid into your rectum via a small tube
Barium swallow - ✅✅ --test that may be used to determine the cause of
painful swallowing, difficulty swallowing, abdominal pain, blood stained vomit,
or unexplained weightloss
-a chemical compound that shows up on x-rays and is used to help see
abnormalities int he esophagus and stomach
bereavement - ✅✅ -includes grief and mourning, the state of having lost a
significant other to death. Survivors go through this period but it is not linear
Blue bloater- chronic bronchitis symptoms - ✅✅--chronic, productive cough
-purulent sputum
, -hemoptysis
-mild dyspnea initially
-cyanosis (due to hypoxia)
-peripheral edema (due to cor pulmonale)
-crackles/wheezing
-prolonged expiration
-obese
Bowlby's 4 stages of mourning - ✅✅--numbing
-yearning and searching
-disorganization and despair
-reorganization
✅✅
Bristol stool chart - -Medical aid to classify stool. Types 1 and 2 indicate
constipation, Types 3 and 4 indicate ideal stools, Types 5, 6 and 7 indicate
diarrhea. Always look at your own stool. It is important to know what your
normal is and what should be normal.
C1 - ✅✅ -All care is directed at maximal symptom control and maintenance
of function without cure or control of an underlying condition that is expected
to cause eventual death. Treatment of intercurrent illnesses can be
contemplated only after careful discussion with the patient about specific short
term goals
C2 - ✅✅ -All care is directed at preparation for imminent death (usually
within hours or days) with maximal efforts directed at symptom control
Cancer pain - ✅✅ -Results from pressure of the tumor against organs,
nerves, or tissues or from radiation/chemotherapry
Case-based learning - ✅✅ -a strategy that helps you to explore complex
problems and engage in decision making without the risk of harming a patient
cause for fecal impaction -✅✅ --collection of hardened stool in the rectum
-severe cause-extend to sigmoid colon
✅✅
Characteristics of urine - -Color: Pale-straw to amber color
Clarity: Transparent unless pathology is present
Odor: Ammonia in nature
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