Nursing 150-final exam
Sign (objective) - correct answer ✔✔What we see, hear and smell so like vitals, labs something that is measurable
Symptom (subjective) - correct answer ✔✔What the patient tells us so examples are: nausea, pain, numbness, dizziness etc
Primary data - correct answer ✔✔Information coming straight from the patient from interviewing them
Secondary data - correct answer ✔✔Information that can come from family members, charts, labs etc
State Nurse Practice Act - correct answer ✔✔What we can or cannot do
How do we assess clients? - correct answer ✔✔1. Head to toe (initial) 2. Focused (main problem? focused area?) 3. body system
Post OP risks? - correct answer ✔✔death, urine/bowel, pain, pneumonia, mental status, falls, infections (high fever & HR)
Benner's Theory - correct answer ✔✔novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert
When we graduated as nurses we are? - correct answer ✔✔advanced beginners
Experience nurses will pick up - correct answer ✔✔subtle patterns
In a clinical setting you always - correct answer ✔✔prioritize care Assumptions - correct answer ✔✔you never guess, always get evidence or proof
ADLs - correct answer ✔✔activities of daily living: feeding, grooming, dressing, bathroom etc
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔collect info, help prioritize care, always think with a purpose, have evidence to support, provide safe patient care
Just culture - correct answer ✔✔taking responsibilities for the wrongs you did at work so like wrong medication etc
What are the 5 vitals signs? - correct answer ✔✔Temp: 97-99.6
HR: 60-100
Respiration: 12-20
BP: 120/80
Pain: 1-10 (always the 5th vital sign)
Chronic illness - correct answer ✔✔Lasts more than 6 months; does not go away usually
Acute illness - correct answer ✔✔New illness; something that can be taken care of
Airborne (TB) - correct answer ✔✔gloves, mask (N95), gown and goggles
Droplets (flu) - correct answer ✔✔gloves, regular mask, gown and goggles
Contact (C-diff) - correct answer ✔✔gown (most important), gown, gloves and goggles.
C-diff - correct answer ✔✔a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-
threatening inflammation of the colon.
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