and Answers
Remaining still for hours, sitting for long periods of time, anything that prevents
circulation - Clients at risk for DVT
- Handrails in bathrooms
- Ramps instead of stairs
- Wear rubber sole shoes
- Avoid scatter rugs
- Prevent clutter
- Avoid slippery floors - Prevention of falls
- Increased intraocular pressure in a hollow organ.
- When the intraocular pressure increase it leads to compression of the retinal
blood vessels and photoreceptors and their nerve fibers resulting in hypoxemia
and death of the tissue and loss of vision.
- Assure the patient can administer own eye drops correctly
- Keep follow-up appointments every 1-3 months to evaluate the IOP.
- If the patient had surgical treatment be sure to educate on the S&S of
hemorrhage and detachment including severe pain, and vision loss. These should
be reported immediately to HCP. - Glaucoma teaching and pathophysiology
- Maintain perfusion, improve comfort, and prevent impaired mobility -
Prioritization of care for a fracture
- Handle with the palms of your hands, have patient report painful "hot spots"
under the cast which might indicate area of pressure necrosis, instruct patient to
never put anything down into the cast, encourage the patient/family to smell the
area for mustiness or unpleasant odor (if ignored the patient may develop a
fever).
- Assess skin color and temperature, sensation, mobility, pain, capillary refill, and
pulses distal to the fracture site. CMS- circulation, movement, and sensation. -
Cast education and assessment
, - Infection of the bone. May be acute or chronic.
- Educate about medications, encourage compliance and to follow regimen (take
full course of medications), inform about signs and symptoms, provide comfort
during rest and with positioning, assist in ADL, coordinate physical therapy while
in the hospital to help improve mobility especially after surgery, provide mobility
assistance devices. - Osteomyelitis prevention and treatment methods
- Gonioscopy is used when elevation intraocular pressure is diagnosed to
determine if the glaucoma is open-angle or closed-angle. It allows the
visualization of the angle where the iris meets the cornea. - Test to determine
open vs closed angle glaucoma
- CMS: circulation, mobility, sensation. Assess skin color, temperature, sensation,
mobility, pain, capillary refill, and pulses. - Neurovascular assessment
- P: Palliative, Q: Quality, R: Region, S: Scale, T: Time - Pain assessment
- The great toe shifts laterally, and the first metatarsal head of the great toe
enlarges
- Pain especially when shoes are worn
- Treatment: custom made shoes or surgery - Bunions (hallux valgus)
- Perform passive ROM exercises for patients who are immobile
- Turn and reposition every 2 hours
- Assess for skin redness - Priority assessments for immobile patients
- A continuous ringing or noise perception in the ears. - Tinnitus
Also called farsightedness. Occurs when the eye does not refract light enough. As
a result, images actually converge behind the retina. Distant vision is normal, but
near vision is poor. - Hyperopia
- Decreases all muscle strengths including the lungs, increases secretion
(aspiration pneumonia is a risk), decrease ventilation capacity in response to
exercise, respiratory depth decreases affecting ventilation, air passage blockage
can lead to atelectasis (collapse of air sacs or alveoli). - Immobility consequences
on the respiratory system