NRNP 6560 Final Exam Study guide Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct

NRNP 6560 Final Exam Study guide Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct Neurology, Orthopedics, Plastic/Reconstructive • Use of plain film x-rays with head injuries • Hypotension and head injury – risk of mortality • Cushing’s triad s/s • Closed head injury s/s and treatment • Acute subdural hematoma on CT scan • Concussion definition s/s and treatment • Brain Trauma Foundation recommendations for intracranial pressure monitoring • Crush injuries - s/s and treatment • Fasciotomy • open fractures - treatment • transverse process fractures - treatment • Flexion-distraction injuries - causes • Pelvic fracture - s/s • Scapular fracture - treatment • Proximal humerus fracture • full thickness grafts - when to use • Treatment of hypertrophic scar • Seborrheic keratosis - treatment • Verrucae lesions - s/s and treatment • Actinic keratosis - s/s and treatment • Time frame for suturing injuries • • Oncology, Organ Transplant, Medical/Ethical • tumor nomenclature various methods of tumor biopsy Proctocolectomy - when is it needed • Partial response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy • Monoclonal antibodies uses and advantages • Acute post-radiation effects with throat cancer • Organ donation - when is a patient not a candidate for organ donation? • Use of Corticosteroids in post-transplant patients • Donation guidelines • Treatment strategies for bradyarrhythmias in post-heart transplant patients • Bone marrow transplant - treatment for prevention of rejection • Kidney transplant - treatment • First line treatment of acute rejection of liver • Ethical principles beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity • Counseling rape victims • Informed Consent and cognitively impaired patients • End of life considerations General Pre and Post Op Care • Hemoglobin in relation to surgery • Predictors of increased morbidity and mortality post-operatively • Risks factors for poor wound healing • Medications the patient should take on the morning of surgery • Positioning in the PACU Head, Neck, Esophagus, and Diaphragm • Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) diagnosis and treatment • Otitis Externa – secondary treatment • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma- treatment related complications • • • Achalasia risk factors • Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia repair Cardiology • EKG interpretation of different types of MI according to the leads presenting with signs of ischemia • Society of Thoracic Surgeon’s statistics and synopsis regarding patient outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting and mortality • INR management • Mitral stenosis with catheter-based balloon mitral valvotomy and reduction of the transvalvular pressure gradient • Types of aortic aneurysms and immediate surgery Pulmonary and Shock • Fatty Lipoma • Thymoma and autoimmune disorders • Positive TB skin test and when treatment is needed • Cardiac pressures related to shock and PE • Treatment for neurogenic shock, distributive-septic shock, and cardiogenic shock Acute Abdomen, Stomach/Duodenum, Appendix Disorders • Abdominal pain and epigastric pain workup and presentation • Symptoms of colicky pain • Gas stoppage sign • Pancreatitis labs • ureteral colic s/s • Perforated bowel s/s • Rebound tenderness • Diverticulitis s/s • When is a pelvic exam indicated and when can it be deferred? • Gastric resection and how vitamins absorption is affected