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What is a sign of bladder retention
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Bladder distention after voiding.
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what is the best way to promote calcium retention in the bones.
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Help the patient to ambulate
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What she you use to dilute a potassium elxir.
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Use water
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What does a sunken fontanelle indicate.
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A sign of hypovolemia in a infant.
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What is the best fluid to use for hypovolemia
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0.9% normal saline
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What is important to know about 1/2 of 0.45% normal saline.
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It is fluid loss of water without loss of electrolytes.
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What is the best fluid to treat cellular dehydration.
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One with a high hydrostatic pressure.
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What is a sign of lower airway obstruction.
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Sternal retractions
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What is edema.
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Fluid that moves from the intravascular area to the interstital area.
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What is the best way to prevent a UTI with a patient that has a indwelling catheter.
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Have patient drink 3000ml/fluid per day.
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What is a carnative enema used for.
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flatulance.
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what type of enema is a fleets enema. What does it do?
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Hypertonic.
Adds fluid to the bulk of the colon stimulating defecation. |
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What she you do if a patient complains of abdominal cramping when administering a enema.
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Stop the enema and restart it a lower flow rate.
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What is a sign of dehydration
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increase hematocrit.
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What is erythropoeisis
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Red cell production
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What do you do if a patient has 150ml of residual in stomach.
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Stop the feeding.
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What is the most effective sign that a patient percieved constipation has been met.
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When patient can verbalize that 3 bowel movements per week is exceptable.
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What can increase bile obstruction.
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Salad dressings
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What does milk of magnesia do
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draws water into the bowel.
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Where does gas exchange take place?
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In the capillaries.
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What position should the patient be placed when inserting a nasogastric tube.
a. fowlers b. supine c. high-fowlers |
high fowlers.
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What are some interventions that you can do to help a resident sleep.
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Give them warm milk. tell them to read a book.
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What is the most common cause of hypomagnesium
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Alcoholism
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Vitamin B deficency and peripheral neuropathy can be caused by.
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Alchoholism
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What is third spacing.
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Accumulating fluid in addition to ECF and ICF which is unavailable to support the circulation but remains inside the body.
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Can too much ADH lead to fluid volume deficit.
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Yes
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What is a sign of hyposmolar balance
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A decrease osmolity and a decrease serum sodium
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What type of stool will you find in a sigmoidostomy
a. loose b. soft, intermittent formed, intermittent |
formed, intermittent.
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what intervention should you teach your patient prior to testing blood in the stool.
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Instruct patient to stop taking multivitamins with iron 3 days before test.
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What should you report when recieving hypertonic IV fluid
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Bounding pulse
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