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NURSING 110 EXAM FALL 2024/2025 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH RATIONALE GRADED A+

NURSING 110 EXAM 1 2024/2025 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH RATIONALE GRADED A+

Life-Span Perspective - Answer human development determined by multiple aspects and frameworks Development - Answer the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human lifespan (until death) Traditional Approach - Answer emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little to no change in adulthood, and decline in old age Life-Span Approach - Answer emphasizes developmental change throughout childhood and adulthood Life Spa...

You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation you have your classmates read the Nursing Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks the class why this document is important. Which of the following statements best describes this code? - Answer Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care An 18-year-old woman is in the emer...

How is documentation utilized? - Answer Communicates patient progress, needs, complications, and tolerance of treatments; used in hospital, legal system, hospital reimbursement, research, quality improvement, and core measures Why should there never be blank spaces in a patient chart? - Answer Blank space could easily filled in with insufficient and falsified data from someone unauthorized How do we eliminate blank spaces in patient chart? - Answer Draw single line to end of paper...

Stages of infection - Answer Incubation period - interval between pathogen invasion and symptoms Prodromal stage - contagious, early signs and symptoms Full stage of illness - Full presence of illness (localized and systemic) Convalescent period - recovery Clostridium difficile - Answer C. diff; bacterial infection causing diarrhea and serious colon inflammation; common after antibiotic use; Healthcare Associated illness; affects digestive system; treat w. flagyll, vancomycin, probio...

safety - Answer basic human need freedom from psychological and physical injury safety first in health care - Answer reduces incidence of illness and injury prevents extended length of treatment/stay improves or maintains functional increases patient's sense of well-being factors influencing safety - Answer Developmental stages, individual risk factors, risks in the health care agency individual risk factors - Answer -mobility, sensory, and cognitive status -impaired m...

a critical thinking 5 step process; the fundamental blueprint for how to care for patients - Answer nursing process 5 steps of the nursing process - Answer assess diagnose plan implement evaluate step that gathers information about the patient's condition; the deliberate and systematic collection of information about a patient to determine the patient's current and past health and functional status and his or her present coping patterns - Answer assess step that identifie...

RACE - Answer Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish PASS - Answer Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep Serous - Answer Clear, plasma drainage Serosanguineous - Answer Light pink/red drainage Sanguineous - Answer Red, contains RBC's Purulent - Answer Contains WBC and bacteria, is a sign of infection Airborne precautions - Answer If pt has tuberculosis, measles, varicella Private room with NEGATIVE pressure airflow, N95 mask Droplet precautions - Answer If pt has ...