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Define an advance directive
Notary sign document authorizing someone to make decision of treatment.
List the three types of advance directives.
1. DNI/DNR
2. Living will
3. Power of Attorney for Health Care
A properly written order for respiratory care should include what four factors?
1. Medication
2. Dose
3. Time (frequency)
4. Doctor signiture
,The respiratory therapist has just finished administering an aerosol treatment
with albuterol to a child whit asthma. How should the treatment be charted?
1. Date
2. Time
3. Dosage
4. Vital sign before and after treatment
What is the normal value for urine output?
40 mL/hr
What findings might indicate that the patient's fluid intake has exceeded his
urine output?
1. Weight gain
2. Electrolyte imbalance
3. Increase hemodynamic pressures
4. Decrease lung compliance
Changes in what reading can indicate hydrovolemia?
Increase CVP >6mmHg
Patient interview/history: Define the following terms:
1. Semi-comatose: responds only to painful stimuli
2. Lethargy/somnolence: consider COPD O2 overdose or sleep apnea
3. Obtunded: drowsy state, may have decreased cough , gag reflex, aspiration
risk.
, When assessing a patient's orientation to time, place and person, what are some
of the factors that could affect the patient's ability to cooperate?
1. Language difficulties
2. Influence of medications
3. Hearing loss
4. Fear, apprehension, depression, etc
Define Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
the basic tasks of everyday life
List six criteria that Activities of Daily Living are based upon,
1. Bathing
2. Eating
3. Dressing
4. Toilet use
5. Transferring
6. Urine and bowel continence
Describe what a Katz ADL score of 1 indicates
Patient needs no direction or assistance
Measuring subjective symptoms - define the following terms:
1. Orthopnea: difficulty breathing laying down
2. General malaise: run down feeling, nausea, weakness,fatigue, headache-
hangover look
3. Dyspnea: SOB, difficulty breathing
4. Dysphagia: difficulty swallowing