Galen College Of Nursing

This document contains a premium comprehensive exam review for NUR 242 Medical-Surgical Exam 1, covering essential foundational nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include fundamentals of medical-surgical nursing practice, including the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation) and prioritization of care. It also includes patient safety principles such as fall prevention, safe medication administration, infection control basics, and er...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for NUR 242 Medical-Surgical Exam 2, covering essential fluid and electrolyte concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include fluid balance regulation, including osmosis, diffusion, and fluid shifts between intracellular, extracellular, and intravascular compartments. It also includes fluid volume imbalances such as dehydration, fluid overload, and third-spacing, with emphasis on clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and pri...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for Galen NUR 242 Exam 2, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include atrial fibrillation (AFib), including pathophysiology, irregularly irregular rhythm recognition, stroke risk, and priority nursing interventions. It also includes myocardial infarction (MI), focusing on early recognition, ECG changes, cardiac biomarkers, emergency management, and post-MI care. Angina is covered, incl...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for NUR 242 Exam 3, covering essential cardiovascular nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include heart failure (HF), including pathophysiology, left-sided and right-sided heart failure, fluid overload, pulmonary congestion, decreased cardiac output, and priority nursing interventions. It also includes pharmacologic management of heart failure with a focus on digoxin therapy, including therapeutic effects, safe administr...

This document contains a comprehensive final exam study guide for NUR 242, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include therapeutic communication, including active listening, empathy, boundary setting, patient-centered communication, de-escalation techniques, and effective nurse–patient interactions across diverse clinical situations. It also includes infection control principles such as the chain of infection, standard precautions, t...

This document contains a comprehensive final exam review for ECC NUR 242, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include endocrine disorders such as diabetes mellitus (Type 1 and Type 2), diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, thyroid disorders (hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism), and adrenal conditions, with emphasis on pathophysiology, assessment findings, and priority nursing interventions. It also includes oncology...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for the NUR 242 Final Exam, covering essential maternal-newborn nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include labor and delivery processes, including the stages of labor, uterine contractions, cervical dilation, and fetal descent. It also includes intrapartum nursing care such as fetal monitoring, interpretation of fetal heart rate patterns, pain management strategies, and nursing interventions during labor progression. Ad...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for Galen NUR 242 Exam 2, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include fluid and electrolyte balance, including regulation of intake and output, osmosis, diffusion, and active transport in clinical contexts. It also includes fluid volume imbalances such as dehydration, fluid overload, edema, and third-spacing, with emphasis on assessment findings, laboratory values, and priority nursing...

Description: This document contains a comprehensive exam review for NUR 242 Exam 2, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include cardiovascular disorders such as coronary artery disease, angina, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, dysrhythmias, and hypertension, with emphasis on pathophysiology, risk factors, and clinical manifestations. It also includes myocardial infarction care, focusing on early recognition, ECG changes, card...

This document contains a comprehensive exam review for NUR 242 Exam 2, covering essential medical-surgical nursing concepts commonly tested in nursing programs. Topics include infection control principles, including chain of infection, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, airborne), and proper PPE use and sequencing. It also includes healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), aseptic technique, sterilization, and disinfection procedures used in clinical settings....