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ATI - RN Mental Health Nursing Latest update 2024 What do you assess for during a Mental Status Exam (MSE)? - Answer--1. level of consciousness 2. physical appearance 3. behavior 4. cognitive and intellectual abilities alert - Answer--able to fully respond by opening eyes, attend to normal tone of voice and speech, and answer questions spontaneously and appropriately lethargy - Answer--able to open eyes and respond, but is drowsy and falls asleep readily obtundation - Answer--needs to be ...

ATI - RN Mental Health Nursing Latest October 2024 update What do you assess for during a Mental Status Exam (MSE)? - Answer--1. level of consciousness 2. physical appearance 3. behavior 4. cognitive and intellectual abilities alert - Answer--able to fully respond by opening eyes, attend to normal tone of voice and speech, and answer questions spontaneously and appropriately lethargy - Answer--able to open eyes and respond, but is drowsy and falls asleep readily obtundation - Answer--need...

4 assessment techniques - Inspection Palpation Percussion Auscultation ABC's - airway, breathing, circulation airway is most important Abnormal lung sounds - Rales = fluid in the bases (LA) Wheezing = bronchial constriction (LA) Rhonchi = large amount of secretion (midlung) Stridor = obstruction in (UA) Abnormal lymph nodes - large, tender, fixed, hard Abnormal skin findings - cool to touch hot to touch diaphoretic jaundice (yellow) cyanotic(blue) pallor urticaria (hives) pete...

Nocicpetive Pain - Answer One's perception of pain. Gate-control theory: Spinal gateway in dorsal horn that controls pain. Book: Pain transmission is the conduction of pain impulses along the Aδ and C fibers (primary order neurons) into the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (Figure 14-1). Here they form synapses with excitatory or inhibitory interneurons (second order neurons) in the substantia gelatinosa of the dorsal horn. What is pain tolerance influenced by? - Answer Perceptual dominance...

NUR 230 Exam 4 Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 (GRADED) | Galen College Of Nursing. Final Exam Peds/Maternity Sickle Cell Anemia: - Dx = Newborn Screening - Patient having extreme leg or abdominal pain = Give Morphine - Patient with pain and fever = Blood culture to test for infection - NO CURE, but possible bone marrow transplants - If a patient with sickle cell is in pain and has had pain med but still has a headache….CALL MD… patient could be having a stroke and need...

Nephrology: Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) Questions and Answers Graded A What is dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS)? Rare syndrome characterised by neuro. Sx of varying severity that affects dialysis px (particularly when they first start on haemodialysis) - thought to be due to cerebral oedema What are the risk factors for DDS? Risk factors • First dialysis treatment • Markedly elevated blood urea conc. Predialysis (i.e. >175 mg/dL or 60 mmol/L) • Chronic kidney disease ...

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NUR 230 Exam 4 Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 (GRADED) | Galen College Of Nursing. Sickle Cell Anemia: - Dx = Newborn Screening - Patient having extreme leg or abdominal pain = Give Morphine - Patient with pain and fever = Blood culture to test for infection - NO CURE, but possible bone marrow transplants - If a patient with sickle cell is in pain and has had pain med but still has a headache….CALL MD… patient could be having a stroke and needs a CT scan: on test - Ma...

ATI - RN Mental Health Nursing Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What do you assess for during a Mental Status Exam (MSE)? - 1. level of consciousness 2. physical appearance 3. behavior 4. cognitive and intellectual abilities alert - able to fully respond by opening eyes, attend to normal tone of voice and speech, and answer questions spontaneously and appropriately lethargy - able to open eyes and respond, but is drowsy and falls asleep readily obtundation - needs to be lightly ...