NUR 242 (NUR242)

Exam 3: NUR242 / NUR 242 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Medical-Surgical Nursing Concepts Exam | Questions and Verified Answers with Rationales | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: The nurse is assessing a patient with a chest tube following a pneumonectomy. Which assessment finding requires intervention? A. Bandage around the posterior tube is loose. B. 2 cm of water is in the second chest tube chamber. C. The water in the water seal chamber rises and falls with inhalation/exhalation. D. Bubbling present ...

Galen NUR 242 Exam 3 Streb notes GERD Risk factors include - ANSWER Consumption of foods such as caffeine, alcohol, spicy or fried foods, chocolate, and tomatoes. Lifestyle factors play a big part especially alcohol and smoking. GERD the nursing assessment should include - ANSWER asking about a history of heartburn or atypical chest pain associated with the reflux of GI content...

Nurse 242 Final Exam Galen College Of Nursing -Question and answers already passed Nurse 242 Final Exam What are the etiologies of intracranial pressure? Hemorrhage (Fluid Build Up due to stroke or aneurysm) Cerebral Edema Cerebral Spinal Fluid Tumor pushing on tissues What is an overt S/S of cerebral Intracranial Pressure? Emesis - projectile vomiting Dizziness Other manifestations of Increasing Intracranial pressure (IICP) Pressure in the brain Increased Blood ...

NURS242 EXAM 1 Galen College Of Nursing -Question and answers 100% correct NURS242 EXAM 1 PATH CONCEPTS - correct answer etiology - correct answer cause direct cause risk factors idiopathic (no known etiology Risk factors - correct answer characteristics or behaviors that increase the chance of developing disease pathogenesis - correct answer structural abnormalities functional abnormalities cell stimulation Cell depression cell stimulation - correc...

NURS 242 Health Assessment Exam 2 Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers correctly solved NURS 242 Health Assessment Exam 2 Creatine Kinase (CK) - correct answer main cardiac muscle studied in heart disease; accurately reflects timing, quantity, and resolution of an MI Total CK Values - correct answer Male: 38-174 U/L Female: 26-140 U/L Isoenzymes - correct answer break the total CK test down CK-MM - correct answer skeletal muscle CK-MB - correct answer myoc...

NURS 242 Exam 2 Galen College Of Nursing -Question and answers already passed NURS 242 Exam 2 *Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996* - correct answer Right to confidentiality. Releasing information as minimal and necessary. Not letting information be overheard or obtained when it should not be. Simplification plan is directed at restructuring the coding and health information to simplify the digital exchange of information among health care providers and to...

NUR242 Medsurg Unit 4 Galen Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers rated A+ NUR242 Medsurg Unit 4 Galen Risk factors: fluid overload - correct answer •Excessive fluid replacement •Kidney failure (late phase) •Heart failure •Long term corticosteroid therapy •Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) •Water intoxication Diabetes Insipidus Hypernatremia S/S: fluid overload - correct answer tachycardia, bounding pulse, HTN, decrease pulse pressure...

NUR242 Maternal Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers correctly solved NUR242 Maternal/Newborn Test 2 Material Lie - correct answer The relationship between long axis of fetus and long axis of mother; how is the baby lying in the mother Longitudinal (up and down); long ways Transverse (across) Attitude - correct answer The degree of flexion the fetus assumes in utero - want the baby's head to be flexed forward towards arms and legs (chin to chest) Station -...

NUR242 Maternal Newborn Chapter 19 Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers verified to pass NUR242 Maternal Newborn Chapter 19 & Chapter 20 spontaneous abortion - correct answer loss of an early pregnancy, before 20 weeks; spontaneous or induced spontaneous abortion factors - correct answer advanced maternal age, uncontrollable by mother the most common cause for first trimester abortions - correct answer fetal genetic abnormalities stillbirth - correct answer Los...

NUR242 Exam 3 Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers already passed NUR242 Exam 3 - FROM STUDY GUIDE Characteristics predisposing newborn to heat loss - Thin skin; blood vessels close to the surface - Lack of shivering ability; - limited stores of metabolic substrates (glucose, glycogen, fat) - Limited use of voluntary muscle activity - Large body surface area relative to body weight - Lack of subcutaneous fat; - little ability to conserve heat by changing posture - No abi...

NUR242 exam 2 Galen College Of Nursing -Question and answers verified to pass NUR242 exam 2 Normal breathing sounds: pitch, quality, amplitude, duration, location Bronchial - correct answer High, harsh or hollow, loud, short during inspiration, long in expiration, trachea and thorax Normal breathing sounds: pitch, quality, amplitude, duration, location Bronchovesicular - correct answer Moderate, mixed, moderate, same during inspiration and expiration, over the major bronchi- post...

NUR242 Galen College Of Nursing - Question and answers already passed NUR242: Maternal Newborn Nursing- Exam 1, Part 2 Drug Therapy During Breast-Feeding Drugs can be excreted in breast milk, and effects can occur in the infant Pharm Chapter 3 Drug therapy during pregnancy: -drug cross the placenta by diffusion - Factors affecting safety: Drug properties, Fetal gestational age, Maternal factors -FDA has implemented pregnancy safety categories Pharm Chapter 3 Pr...