Summary NUR 2349 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE ON PROFESSIONAL NURSING

Risk factors and interventions for falls (Exam 1, Ch. 3) Physiological changes in elderly (Exam 1, Ch. 3, 11, 17; Chart 17-1) Interventions for dementia (Exam 1, Ch. 3) Catheter’s cares (Exam 2, Ch. 16) Types of incontinence: S/S and interventions (Exam 2, Ch. 66) Prevention of UTI’s (Exam 2, Ch. 66) Tests used for Kidney stones (Exam 2, Ch. 66) Terms: Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, Fidelity, Veracity, Social Justice, self-determination (Exam 2) HIPAA-understand nursing complication (Exam 2) ANA code of ethics: what is it? How does it help you as a nurse? (Exam 2) Rights of terminally ill (Exam 2) Reasons for surgery: Cosmetic, Curative, Palliative, Restorative, Diagnostic (Exam 2, Ch. 14) DVT interventions/S/S/ Treatments (Ch. 36) - Nursing care and patient education associated with anticoagulant therapy (Chart 36-7) Pre/Intra/Post op nursing interventions (Exam 2, Ch. 14, 15, 16) Nsg Interventions/teaching for constipation (Exam 2, Ch. 16) Define and understand the following terms: interstitial, intracellular, intravascular, transcellular, antigens, epitopes, haptens, immunogens (Exam 3, Ch. 11, 17) IV solutions: isotonic, hypertonic, hypotonic (Different types and uses) (Exam 3, Ch. 13) Nursing interventions for PIV’s (Exam 3, Ch. 13) Piggyback Lab Values/s/s/and interventions: sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, chloride, phosphorus (Exam 3, Ch. 11) Immunity: acquired, adaptive, innate, specific, cell mediated, passive, humoral, active (Exam 3, Ch. 17) Allergic reactions: s/s, interventions (Exam 3, Ch. 20) RA medications used, goals of treatment, education (Exam 3, Ch. 18) Paget’s disease (Exam 1, Ch. 50) Inflammation: Types of cells and how they react in the body (Exam 3, Ch. 17) Labs values used to determine infection (Ch. 17, 18) ABG’s: respiratory vs metabolic: compensative, partially compensative, uncompensated (Exam 3) What causes a fever? Nursing interventions for fevers (elderly, infant) (Basic Nursing Ch. 19; Ch. 23) Interventions and medications used for fevers/Temperatures: hyper/hypo (ATI Fund Ch. 7) Effects temperatures have on elderly (ATI Fund Ch. 7) S/S and interventions of hypothermia vs hyperthermia (Ch. 9) Risk factors for thermoregulation (Ch. 9) Malignant hyperthermia: s/s, interventions (Exam 2, Ch. 15) Pain: S/S of acute vs chronic and why pain is important (Ch. 4) Differences between: addiction, tolerance/physical dependence, pseudo addiction (Ch. 4) Differences in pain: intractable pain, neuropathic, chronic, acute, ghost, somatic, visceral, nociceptive, neuropathic, mixed pain syndrome, pathological, breakthrough (Ch. 4) Opioid medications: S/S, complications, teaching of medications, reversal agents (Ch. 4, Table 4-6) Teaching for Fosamax (Ch. 50) Safety teaching for mercury exposure (Ch. 65)