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NUR 125 Exam Questions And Accurate Answersmorning care - Care given to individuals while the patient is rising in the morning
also known as "face, hands and back"
settling care - Care given to individuals before retiring to bed
also referred to as "PM care"
as-needed care - Care provided to individuals when required
also referred to as "PRN care
skin assessment - Answer 1. a nursing history to determine the person's skin care
practices, self-care abilities and past or current skin problems
2. physical assessment of skin
3. identification of people at risk of developing skin impairments
clinical reasoning cycle - Answer 1. consider the patient
2. collect cues / information
3. Process information
4.Identify problems / issues
5. establish goal/s
,6. take action
7. evaluate outcomes
8. Reflect on process and new learning
REPEAT
consider the patient - Answer describe
list facts, context, objects or people
collect cues / information - Answer 1. review current information
eg handover reports, patient history, patient charts, results of investigations and
nursing/mediacl assessments previously undertaken
2. Gather new information
eg undertake patient assessment
3. Recall knowledge
eg physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, epidemiology, therapeutics, context of
care, ethics, law etc)
subjective data - Answer consist of information obtained from what the person says.
It describes the person's perceptions and experience with the problem
objective data - Answer consist of information that is measured or observed by use of
the senses
S2 - Answer schedule 2
pharmacy medicine
,S3 - Answer schedule 3
pharmacist only medicine
S4 - Answer schedule 4
Prescription Only Medicine OR Prescription Animal Remedy
S5 - Answer schedule 5
Caution
S6 - Answer schedule 6
Poison
S7 - Answer schedule 7
dangerous poison
S8 - Answer schedule 8
controlled drug
S9 - reschedule 9
banned substance
S10 - reschedule 10
Substances of such danger to health as to warrant prohibition of sale, supply and use
Scheduling - reschedule a national classification system which controls how medicines
and poisons are made available to the public.
Medicines and poisons are classified into Schedules according to the degree of
regulatory control over the availability of the medicine or poison that is required to
protect public health and safety.
, pharmacokinetics - Answer The study of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and
excretion of drugs.
influences the decided route of administration for a particular medication, the amount
and frequency of a dose and its dosing intervals.
half-life - Answer t1/2) The time taken to eliminate from the body half the initial dose of
medicine administered
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t1/2 = 0.693/ke (Where ke = first order elimination constant of the medicine.)
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For example, a medicated dose with a half-life of 12 hours, would have 25 per cent of the
medication left in the body after 24 hours.
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PO - Answer by mouth
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first year students - S2 only
PR - Response per rectum
out of scope for first year students
PV - Response per vagina
out of scope for first year students
SC - Response subcutaneous
out of scope for first year students
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