Nu 460 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Red has the wavelength range of correct answers 660-760 nm Yellow has the wavelength range of correct answers 560-610 nm Orange wavelength range of correct answers 610-660 Green has the wavelength range of correct answers 510-560 Blue has the wavelength range of correct answers 460-510 Indigo has the wavelength range of correct answers 430-460 Violet has the wavelength range of correct answers 380-430 UVA rays is the most harmful to the eye and has the wavelength range of co...

Red has the wavelength range of correct answers 660-760 nm Yellow has the wavelength range of correct answers 560-610 nm Orange wavelength range of correct answers 610-660 Green has the wavelength range of correct answers 510-560 Blue has the wavelength range of correct answers 460-510 Indigo has the wavelength range of correct answers 430-460 Violet has the wavelength range of correct answers 380-430 UVA rays is the most harmful to the eye and has the wavelength range of co...

Identify 3 challenges faced by Community Health Nurses when dealing with environmental health impacts Chronic environmental problems are rarely addressed effectively, Difficult to get people motivated to work on environmental problems, People respond to acute crises with dramatic media coverage (such as hurricanes or earthquakes), but ongoing consistent pressure is needed to ensure day-to-day environmental integrity. Extreme weather events can have vastly different impacts on different populati...

NU 460 Status Epilepticus Case Study You are the nurse on a medical unit taking care of a 40-year-old man, A.A., who has been admitted with peptic ulcer disease secondary to chronic alcoholism. He also has a history of “street” drug abuse. You enter A.A.'s room and find him having a generalized convulsive (tonic-clonic) seizure.

NU 460 Mechanically Ventilated Patient Case Study ► P.W., a 33-year-old woman diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), is being cared for on a special ventilator unit of an extended care facility because she requires 24-hour-a-day nursing coverage. She has been intubated and mechanically ventilated for 3 weeks and has shown no signs of improvement in respiratory muscle strength. Her ventilator settings are assist- control (A/C) of 12 breaths/min, tidal volume (V T ) 700 mL, FiO 2 0.5...

NU 460 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Case Study You are in the middle of your shift in the coronary care unit (CCU) of a large urban medical center. Your new admission, C.B., a 47-year-old woman, was just flown to your institution from a small rural community more than 100 miles away. She had an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction (MI) last evening. Her current vital signs (VS) are 100/60, 86, 14. After you make C.B. comfortable, you receive this report from the flight nurse:...

1. population composed of all individuals that belong to the same species and live in a given area at a particular time 2. community incorporates all of the populations of organisms within a given area 3. population ecolo- gy the study of factors that cause populations to increase or decrease 4. population size the total number of individuals within a defined area at a given time 5. population densi- ty 6. population distriu- tion the number of individuals per unit area (or v...

NU 460 Parkinson's Disease Case Study ► L.C. is a 78-year-old man with a 4-year history of Parkinson's disease (PD). He is a retired engineer, is married, and lives with his wife in a small farming community. He has four adult children who live close by. Since his last visit to the clinic 6 months ago, L.C. reports that his tremors are “about the same” as they were; however, further questioning reveals that he feels his gait is perhaps a little more unsteady, and his fatigue is slig...

NU 460 Inflammatory Bowel Disease With Small Bowel Obstruction C.W., a 36-year-old woman, was admitted several days ago with a diagnosis of recurrent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and possible small bowel obstruction (SBO). C.W. is married, and her husband and 11-year-old son are supportive, but she has no extended family in-state. She has had IBD for 15 years and has been taking mesalamine (Asacol) for 15 years and prednisone 40 mg/day for the past 5 years. She is very thin; at 5 feet 2 i...