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17 Cards in this Set
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Dementia |
Reduced cognitive function |
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Alzheimer's disease |
Progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia in older individuals, conversation becomes progressively more difficult and word finding problems occur. |
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The best way for the nurse to obtain information with some who has Alzheimer's disease |
Provide calm environment and use clear and simple explanations |
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When communicating with clients who have hearing loss |
Stand close to them, touch them before speaking and speak loudly |
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A child with cleft palate is at risk |
for aspiration and inadequate nutrition due to eating feeding difficulties |
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How to reduce aspiration risk for a child with cleft palate |
Feeding in an upright position,pointing the nipple away from cleft, using special nipples or bottles for feeding, feeding no more than 20-30mins, feed the infant every 3-4 hours, burp infant frequently to avoid distention and regurgitation |
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hypermesis gravidrum |
Severe persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy |
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Ketonuria |
body is breaking down fat to use for energy due to the client's starvation |
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Dehydration s/s |
Dry mucous membranes, poor skin tugor, decreased urine output, tachycardia |
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Potassium normal lab values |
3.5-5.0 |
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Abnormal laboratory results for hypermesis gravidrum |
Hypokalemia,hyponatermia, ketonuria, increased urine specific gravity, hemoconcetration, metabolic alkalosis |
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Hemoglobin normal lab value |
12-15 |
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Urine specimens are collected from where? |
The port located on the tubing of an indwelling urinary catheter |
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Urine that is collected |
should be measured and discarded |
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Specimens should never be |
obtained from a collection bag |
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To collect the urine specimen |
Clean the collection port an alcohol swab, aspirate urine with a sterile syringe, aseptic technique to transfer the specimen to sterile specimen |
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Warfarin (Coumadin) generally contraindicated |
in pregnancy |
