Nsc 232 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Effective Communication  -essential to the coordination and continuity of care  -enables personnel to support and compliment one another's services  -avoid duplications and omissions of care Purposes of Documentation  -communication  -planning client care  -quality assurance  -research  -education  -reimbursement  -legal documentation Documentation  -is written or typed  -a legal record of all pertinent interactions with a patient Nursing P...

medication → substance administered for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or relief of a symptom or for prevention of disease legislation and standards for non parental medication → Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 → → U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) → → Institutional policies Official government agency NPA Can patients refuse medication? → They monitor testing, approval, and distribution of drugs → → nurse practice act. There are certain medications that you ...

medication → substance administered for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or relief of a symptom or for prevention of disease Dispensing of Medications: Controlled Substances → Kept under lock → Documentation requirements → Counts of controlled → substances → Procedures for discarding → 2 nurses to witness KASPER → Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting" law → *Health care providers that administer prescriptions for narcotics must comply Legal A...

Physiology of urinary elimination → -void, urinatinon, micturition → -volume of 250-450 ml pressure rises → -cerebral cortex is the final control Process of micturition → 1. urine collects in bladder → 2. pressure stimulates special stretch receptors in bladder wall → 3. stretch receptors transmit impulses to spinal cord voiding reflex center → 4. internal sphincter relaxes, stimulating the urge to void → 5. If appropriate, the conscious portion of the brain relaxes the...

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Thermoregulation → relationship between heat production and heat loss Febrile → Has a fever Afebrile → does not have a fever Constant fever → the body temp fluctuates minimally but always remains above normal Remittent fever → a wide range of temperature fluctuations (more than 2˚C) in a 24 hour period of time, all of which are above normal (most common with a cold or influenza) Relapsing fever → short febrile periods of a few days are interspersed with periods of 1-2 d...

Edema - ️️presence of interstial fluid in the body that makes skin look swollen, shiny, or taut Confidentiality - ️️any info a subject relates will not be made public to anyone without the subject's consent Bradypnea - ️️below 10 Eupnea - ️️regular, un-labored breathing between 12-20 Tachypnea - ️️above 20 Dyspnea - ️️shortness of breath Systolic - ️️top #, contraction of ventricles Diastolic - ️️bottom #, ventricles are at rest, lower pressure present...

NSC 232 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025

NSC 232 EXAM #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025 Bradypnea → below 10 Eupnea → regular, un-labored breathing between 12-20 Tachypnea → above 20 Dyspnea → shortness of breath Systolic → top #, contraction of ventricles Diastolic → bottom #, ventricles are at rest, lower pressure present at all times Aspiration → withdrawal of fluid that has abnormally collected, to obtain a specimen Auscultation 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit g...