fundamentals of nursing Flashcards
Dyspnea is defined as:
Difficult respiration
Mr. Ahmed age 53, her pulse rate is found to be 52 per minute. Her heart rate could be described as :
Bradycardia
The condition in which a person is aware of his or her own heart contraction without having to feel the pulse is called:
Palpitation
When you assess the respiratory rate for the patient, you should do all of the following except:
a) Instruct the patient to breath in and out from his mouth.
b) Count each inspiration followed by expiration as one breath.
c) Make sure that the patient is not aware that you are counting his respiratory rate.
d) Count the respiratory rate for 30 seconds.
Instruct the patient to breath in and out from his mouth.
Cyanosis is blue colour of skin, is caused by:
Low tissue oxygenation
To examine the ear canal of the child, this is done by:
Pull the ear down and back
The advantage of use head to toe approach when you assess the patient:
It helps to prevent overlooking some aspect of data collection
Discharge planning for hospitalised patient begins:
From the first day of admission
Instrument which is used to examine the eye structure is called:
Ophthalmoscope
Abnormal skin color which indicates yellowish color is called:
Jaundice
A pattern in which the nursing personnel divide the patient into groups and complete their care together is called:
Team nursing
Which of the following is considered as subjective data:
a) Anxiety
b) Skin color
c) Height
d) Temperature
Anxiety
The term used to describe blood in the urine:
Hematuria
The physician has ordered an indwelling urinary catheter inserted in a hospitalised patient, the nurse is aware that:
a) The procedure requires surgical asepsis
b) Lubricant not needed for catheter insertion
c) Smaller catheters are used for male catheter
d) Normally a clean technique is required for catheter insertion
The procedure requires surgical asepsis
The normal colour of urine is:
Light yellow
Diarrhoea is best described by its
Consistency
When a person has a fever or diaphoresis, the urine output will be which of the following :
a) Increased and diluted
b Increased and concentrated
c) Decreased and highly diluted
d) Decreased and highly concentrated
Decreased and highly concentrated
Medication is instilled between the skin & the muscle and used to administer Heparin:
Subcutaneous
The angle of the syringe and needle for intramuscular injections is:
90 degrees
Is the term used to administered undiluted medication quickly into a vein:
Bolus
A primary concern when giving heparin subcutaneously (S.C) to prevent bleeding is:
Don’t make massage on the injection site
When administering medication via nasogastric tube, clamp tube for at least:
One half hours after instilling medication to allow for absorption
To ensure that medications are prepared and administered correctly, the nurse should:
Use the five rights
The nurse chooses to inject a prescribed intramuscular medication into the Ventrogluteal site. If the nurse selects the site correctly, the injection is administered into the:
Hip