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Summary Nur 155; Test 3 Focus Points
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- NUR 155
- Institution
- Galen College Of Nursing
Test 3 focus points.
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Units 6 Key Points- 12 Questions:Know what is important to healing? What promotes wound healing?
Dehistance and what are the risk factors?—OBESITY is huge and coughing
RYB -- Know what the wound beds should look like.. ex beefy red appearance where other could have black,
eschar. what should the tissue look like?
Know primary secondary tertiary healing by intention—specifically secondary, what should we be the most
worried about—if someone has a wound, what do we worry about?- infection types of people- obesity,
malnourished (NOT TERTIARY)
Know interventions for taking care of a jb drain on 895-- interventions
Know the 3 types of dressing on the PowerPoint slide
The hot-cold therapies starts on 856
Special considerations on certain types of wounds, such as abdominal binders
UNIT 7 Key Points- 25 questions
Risks of prolonged immobility- Physical effects of prolonged immobility
Preventing contractors
Foot drop
Nursing safety (safety for us) when caring with immobile patients
Interventions for cardiac complications due to limited mobility ROM for cardiac patients
Sensory deprivation- know types—whos at risk
Sensory overload—whos at risk
Nursing intervention for visual impairment- and hearing impaired
Delirium and demtia
Gustatory impairment (taste is off)- patient teaching—check, clear pallette
Functions of different parts of the lungs—(WHERE DOES GAS EXCHANGE OCCUR)
Symptoms of hypoxia
Nursing interventions for dyspnea and SOB positioning
Non-rebreather masks and nasal canula- why do we use them one or the other
Know oxygen safety- don’t light and cig
Incentive spirotomer
Heart sounds S1 and S2- what’s opening and closing
Risk factors for heart disease—whose at the greatest risk (modifiable vs non-modifiable)
Preload
Increase afterload
Health promotion for healthy heart-- teching
Signs and symptoms for pulmonary edema—about heart failure
Cardiac monitor interventions- what do we do for second and third—we hear an alarm- what do we do first?
second? Ect..
Changes in cardiovascular and aging.
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