Hondros NUR 205 Final Exam Study Guide.
FICA tool - answer✔✔F-Faith or beliefs
I-Importance and Influence
C-Community
A-Address
Physiological Fatigue - answer✔✔Caused by exercise, or excessive use of muscles
Pathological/secondary fatigue - answer✔✔Mental/physical fatigue usually due to an underlying
condition
Primary prevention of fatigue - answer✔✔Vaccines, health diet
Early adulthood - answer✔✔Late teens to mid 30s
-ignores symptoms and medical care
-make decisions regarding career/marriage
Middle adulthood - answer✔✔Mid 30s to mid 60s
-menopause in women
-physical changes impact body image
-interested in learning new skills
-generativity-want to feel like they're doing good
Late adulthood - answer✔✔Mid 60s to death
-has sense of integrity--proud of life
-has sense of despair--dissatisfied with life
Skin integrity
1. Bacterial infections - answer✔✔Acne vulgaris
Cellulitis
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Skin integrity
2. Fungal infections - answer✔✔Yeast infection
Athletes foot
Skin integrity
3. Viral infections - answer✔✔Herpes Simplex
Skin integrity
4. Infestations - answer✔✔Mites
Scabies
Lice
Wound healing: Primary Intention - answer✔✔Wound edges well approximated.
-Sutured incision, or simple laceration
Wound healing: Secondary Intention - answer✔✔Wound has distant edges and granulation
tissue fills gap to close wound
Wound healing: Tertiary Intention - answer✔✔Wound close later with sutures.
-Wound must stay open until infection or wound contamination is healed
Phases of wound healing
1. Inflammatory - answer✔✔3-5 days, blood clots form at injury site and platelets release growth
factors to help scab form
*scab*
Phases of wound healing
2. Granulation - answer✔✔New vessels and collagen structures form
*baby scar*
Phases of wound healing
3. Maturation - answer✔✔Scar contraction remodeling. Can last months or years
*Mature scar*
Braden scale - answer✔✔Asses risk for pressure ulcers
*the lower the score, the higher the risk*