PRN 1409 (PRN1409) Exam | Client
Centered Care 3 | Exam 1 Questions
and Answers Rated A+ | Updated
2024/2025
What test is used for renal insufficiency?
- Correct Answer - creatinine clearance test
What is peritoneal dialysis?
- Correct Answer - dialysis through the abdomen
What complication can arise from peritoneal dialysis?
- Correct Answer - peritonitis
What does hemodialysis do?
- Correct Answer - -remove waste products from the blood -removes
poisons -remove excess water -establish or maintain proper levels of
electrolytes -maintain acid-base balance -instill medications
What are possible complications of hemodialysis?
- Correct Answer - exsanguination
septicaemia
air emboli
haemolytic anaemia
disequilibrium syndrome
hepatitis
What is exsanguination?
, - Correct Answer - -severe, immediately life threatening hemorrhage
-always have 2 clamps to prevent hemorrhage
What is the orthopneic position?
- Correct Answer - patient sitting up straight up, leaning over the table
(which is padded with pillows) and elevate and round the shoulders to
allow maximum expansion of the lungs
If you have severe dyspnea what position is most effective?
- Correct Answer - orthopneic position
What does orthopnea mean?
- Correct Answer - the patient has trouble breathing when supine
What are wheezes with lung sounds?
- Correct Answer - whistling high pitched sound produced by air being
forced through a narrowed airway
What are wheezes common in?
- Correct Answer - asthma
What are crackles in the lungs?
- Correct Answer - produced by air passing through moisture in the
smaller airways
What are fine crackles?
- Correct Answer - sound similar to the sound produced by rubbing hairs
between the fingers close to the ear
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