Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
26 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
S/S of dysphagia
|
1.Frequent drooling 2. Loss of food from the mouth 3. Spitting food out 4. Choking or coughing 5. Gurgling or wet sounding voice quality |
|
|
How many days can a person be on a clear fluid diet
|
no more than a couple of days before they are at risk.
|
|
|
What are short term feeding tube options?
|
Nasogastric and Orogastric feeding tubes inserted at the bedside
|
|
|
What are long term feeding tube options?
|
Gastrostomy Jejunostomy and combination tubes |
|
|
Contributing factors to pressure ulcers
|
1. Incontinence 2. Friction and shear 3. Immobility 4. Loss of sensory preception 5. Decreased activity level 6. Poor nutrition |
|
|
What assessments need to be done wen doing a digital bowel disimpaction?
|
Cardiac, and abdominal |
|
|
What are the 4 requirements for a holistic nutritional assessment?
|
1)Patient Hx both psycological and social 2)Diatary Hx 3)Physical examination and anthropometic measurments 4)biochemical indices |
|
|
What are the anthropometric measurements?
|
Height, weight, Skinfold thickness, Waist circumfrences, Muscle circumfrences
|
|
|
What areas do you measure for muscle circumfrences?
|
Mid arm and calf
|
|
|
Lbs to KG
|
Divide Lbs by 2.2
|
|
|
Inches to m
|
inches x 2.54 divided by 100
|
|
|
What kind of diet would you order for heart failure, renal failure, cirrohsis, and hypertension
|
Low sodium
|
|
|
The nurse is feeding a patient at risk for aspiration. The patient’s oxygenation status is being monitored by pulse oximetry. Before feeding, oxygenation level is 95%. The nurse suspects that the patient may be silently aspirating. The pulse oximetry reading would be:________________________.
|
93%, a drop of 2% or greater may indicate silent aspiration
|
|
|
How much weight would someone need to gain in 24 hrs that would indicate fluid retention
|
2 lbs or 0.9 kg
|
|
|
At what angle should the bed be kept at for a patient with a feeding tube running
|
30-45 degrees
|
|
|
What must happen before feeding or medication can be gived through a blindly placed feeding tube?
|
an Xray
|
|
|
You have just aspirated a feeding tube on a patient. What GRV would cause you to not continue with feeding?
|
A single GRV of 500ml or 2 GRV's of greater then 250 taken 1 hr apart
|
|
|
How much water should you flush a feeding tube with prior to administering a feeding?
|
30 ml
|
|
|
How often does a feeding tube bag need to be changed?
|
every 24 hrs
|
|
|
How often and how much does a continuous feeding tube need to be flushed?
|
30ml every 4 hrs
|
|
|
Hoow often should GRV be measured?
|
every 4-6 hrs
|
|
|
When are Jejunostomy tubes indicated?
|
When risk for regurgitation and aspiration are high.
|
|
|
BMI obesity
|
30+
|
|
|
BMI over weight
|
25-29.9
|
|
|
Normal BMI
|
18.5-24.9
|
|
|
Underweight BMI
|
18.4 or less
|
