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Galen College of Nursing NU110 exam 1: Questions and Answers well Explained For Assured Success

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What is Teds and the primary purpose? - ANSWER -acronym for Thrombo Embolic Deterrent -TEDs are tight, thick, elastic stockings that go on the legs and are used as a preventative measure to reduce the occurrence of emboli/blood clots in the legs. What is the primary purpose of SCD? What i...

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What is Teds and the primary purpose? - ANSWER -acronym for Thrombo Embolic
Deterrent
-TEDs are tight, thick, elastic stockings that go on the legs and are used as a
preventative measure to reduce the occurrence of emboli/blood clots in the legs.
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What is the primary purpose of SCD? What is the benefit of their use? - ANSWER
-sequential compression devices
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-SCD's are used in critical care units.
-Most patients on bed-rest, are prescribed SCD's unless they are contradicted
SCD's work by compressing the muscles in the leg and helping the venous blood get
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back to the heart by mechanically squeezing the leg. They compress and relax at
prescribed settings. They also help stimulate the body's own clot dissolving
mechanisms. For this reason, SCD's have also been used on upper extremities as well
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as lower extremities in some situations. SCD's can be knee-high or calf length and the
choice of which one to use depends on physicain preference. Each facility ( and
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manufacturer) has protocols on the use of SCD's. In our ICU we remove the SCD's for
at least 15 minutes twice a day.
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How does a nurse exhibit caring to- Patients & Family - ANSWER Providing
presence, touch, listening, knowing the pt, spiritual caring, relieving pain & suffering.
Family care: Family is important resource! Beign relationship by learning who makes up
the pt's family & what their roles are in the pt's life.

What is meant by family? - ANSWER a set of relationships that the Pt identifies as
family or as a network of individuals who influence one another's lives, whether or not

, there are actual biological or legal ties. " family can be defined as biological, leagal,
social network w/ personally constructed ties & ideologies."

Family Forms - ANSWER Nuclear
Extended
Single Parent
Blended
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How to Tx the family as a Pt.? - ANSWER Family process & relationships, patterns,
process that are consistant with maintaining family & indivdual health.




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How to Tx the Pt as a context? - ANSWER Focus on the health & development of
an individual memeber exsisting within a specific enviroment. (pt family)




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How to Tx the Pt as a system? - ANSWER Using all available enviromental, social,
psychological and community resources.
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What are TEDS - ANSWER Thrombo-embolic disease Stockings, brand name of
antiembolism elastic stockings

What are SCDs? - ANSWER Sequential Compression Devices
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How do you work with Pts. with weakness on one-side? - ANSWER By having them
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use their dominate side first for their maxium strength

Physical changes in infants - ANSWER birth wt dbls @ 5mos, triples @ 12 mos.
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grows 1in during each of the 1st 6mos, and then 1/2 in each month until 12 mos.
Vision/hearing cont to develops, visual/auditory linking, body function stablize/ feeding,
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sleeping, elemination.
Startle reflex,grasping,rooting, sucking disappear after several mos, 4 mos have no
head lag
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Physical changes in toddlers - ANSWER grows 2.5 in per yr, 5-7 lbs per yr/ motor
skills allows self care. navigate stairs, running, jumping standing, kicking ball. Fine
motor skills allow scribbling, drawing circles, crosses, stick people, stack tower of
blocks, hold crayons w/ fingers, can do verticle/horizontal strokes. drink from cup w/o
spilling, turn pages of book/doorknobs

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