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NUR 2392 / NUR2392 Exam 1: Multidimensional Care II / MDC 2 Exam 1 Review (Latest 2024/2025) Rasmussen
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NUR2392 Multidimensional Care II / MDC 2 Exam 1 Review
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MDC 2 Exam 11. Care for and causes of mucositis.
-Causes is chemotherapy
-Care for this is to chew on ice chips, brushing teeth regularly and rinsing your mouth
out
2. Strategies to prevent cancer
Primary: sunscreen, no tobacco, using PPE in the workplace, safe sex, vaccinations
Secondary: colonoscopy, pap smears, and mammograms
3. Education for a client with hyponatremia
Limit your water intake, will help with the edema
4. Characteristics of malignant tumor cells
-Abnormal morphology
-Loose adherence (migrate (metastasis))
-Rapid/continuous cell division
-Chromosome abnormalities
5. Causes of dehydration
-Hemorrhage
-Vomiting/diarrhea
-Profuse salivation
-Fistulas
-Burns
-Wounds
-Long-term NPO
, 6. Chemotherapy and how it works
-Cytotoxic Systemic Therapy
-It is a treatment with chemical agents to help with survival time or potentially cure it.
-It attacks cancer cells along with healthy cells
7. What does benign mean
Harmless: does not usually require intervention
8. What is the radiation dose
Ideal Radiation Dose- kills cancer cells with an acceptable level of damage to normal
tissues
-High Energy Radiation: kills cells, relieves symptoms, and provides disease control
9. Hypervolemia
Excessive Fluid
Some symptoms include:
-weight gain (daily weight)
-Tachycardia
-Crackles in the lungs
-Edema
-Jugular vein distention
10. Prevention of extravasation when administering chemotherapy
Extravasation (infiltration) - if medications are vesicants, the results of extravasation can
include: pain, infection, and tissue loss. Vesicants are chemicals that damage tissues on
direct contact
-First check for blood backflow before injection to ensure it’s positioned in the vein
-Make sure it is diluted and know the antidote
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