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NURS 4331 exam one Study Guide
Solutions
1 OZ - Ans:✔✔-30 mL
1 tbsp - Ans:✔✔-15 mL
1 tsp - Ans:✔✔-5 mL
3 tsp - Ans:✔✔-1 tbsp
1 cup - Ans:✔✔-240 mL
1 pint - Ans:✔✔-480 mL
1 quart - Ans:✔✔-960 mL
1 L - Ans:✔✔-1000 mL
1 gram - Ans:✔✔-1000 mg
1 mg - Ans:✔✔-1000 mcg
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1 kg - Ans:✔✔-2.2 lbs
1 inch - Ans:✔✔-2.54 cm
1 lb - Ans:✔✔-16 oz
informed consent - Ans:✔✔-needed for major procedures , surgery, pt must be informed of risks and
benefits of procedure
decision maker - Ans:✔✔-must be of legal age per state AND competent
in texas 18+
exceptions to informed consent (less than 18 y/o) - Ans:✔✔--legally emancipated minor
- under 18 and married
-serving in military and under 18
-able to prove financial independence
-mother of children (marital status DOESN NOT matter)
HIPAA exceptions - Ans:✔✔-violence
child abuse
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reportable STD
atraumatic care - Ans:✔✔-care that minimizes or eliminates psychological and physical distress
experienced by children and families in the health care system
open-ended questions - Ans:✔✔-encourage pts to communicate
"can you tell me more about that?"
identifying literacy/reading problems - Ans:✔✔-frequently missed appts
incomplete registration
non complaint with meds
unable to name meds, explain purpose or dosing
identify pills by looking at them= not read label
ask fewer questions
lack of follow through with tests/referrals
makes excuses out of fear of being found out
pulse is taken - Ans:✔✔-apically up to TEN years old
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on chest with stethoscope
babies are born with - Ans:✔✔-unmyelinated nerves
myelinization occurs - Ans:✔✔-over the first 2 YEARS of life
myelinization leads to - Ans:✔✔-increasing coordination from head to toe and the core to fingertips
hearing - Ans:✔✔-intact at birth
primitive reflexes - Ans:✔✔-root, sucking, grasp, babinski, fencing/asymmetric tonic neck, moro = arms
form C when startled
root reflex - Ans:✔✔-This reflex begins when the corner of the baby's mouth is stroked or touched. The
baby will turn his or her head and open his or her mouth to follow and ------ in the direction of the
stroking. This helps the baby find the breast or bottle to begin feeding.
sucking reflex - Ans:✔✔-Reflex that causes a newborn to make ------------ motions when a finger or nipple
if placed in the mouth
grasp reflex - Ans:✔✔-an infantile reflex in which an infant closes her hand into a fist when her palm is
touched
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