NUR 125 Final Exam with precise detailed solutions
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When should you flush an IV with normal saline? - ✔✔Every 8 hours to ensure patency
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IV Insertion location - ✔✔Non dominant hand, start low and work your way up, not below
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current infusion, avoid antecubital area
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Fluid overload S/S - ✔✔Edema, hypertension, bounding pulse, crackles, weight gain
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Phlebitis S/S - ✔✔inflammation of a vein
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—redness, swelling, warmth || ||
Infiltration S/S - ✔✔Leakage of fluid
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—cool, pallor, swelling, pain, burning
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Isotonic fluids - ✔✔Concentration is the same as body fluids, D5W sodium, Ringer, Lactated
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Ringer, 0.9% sodium chloride. Fluid loss resulting from diarrhea & vomiting, waiting for
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blood products, and fluid loss during surgery
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Hypertonic fluids - ✔✔Concentration is higher than 300 mEq/L, concentrated in dextrose in
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water 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 70%- sodium chloride solution 3%, 5%, lower cerebral edema
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Hypotonic fluids - ✔✔Concentration is less than 280 mEq/L, 0.45% sodium chloride- use to
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replace hypotonic fluid losses, maintenance solution
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TNM - ✔✔tumor-node-metastasis
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Risk factors for cellular regulation - ✔✔Advancing age, smoking, multiple sex partners, sun
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exposure, high fat and low fiber diet, increased alcohol intake
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What is the main sign of colon cancer? - ✔✔Blood in stool
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complications of leukemia - ✔✔Infection, bleeding, anemia
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—patient should be on neutropenic precautions
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Breast cancer S/S - ✔✔Dimpling of the skin of the breast, discharge from the nipple,
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thickening of breast tissue, dry rash in the areola
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Lymphedema interventions - ✔✔Elevate arm & encourage exercises and ADLs with affected
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arm
Alzheimer's - ✔✔Deficiency of acetylcholine, neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid deposits in the
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brain
*nutrition should include small frequent meals with finger foods high in protein and
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carbohydrates
Dementia - ✔✔Minor vs. Major tranquilizers- major (to manage anxiety, hostility, agitation,
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and paranoia) minor (to manage anxiety and agitation)
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*should promote involvement in ADLs with simple directions
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Parkinson's - ✔✔Combination drug therapy to increase the effectiveness includes carbidopa
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and levodopa.
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S/S— muscle tremors, posture and equilibrium alternations, slow body movements &
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bradykinesia ||
Deficiency of dopamine || ||