Fluid & Electrolytes IV Therapy
These arterial blood gas results:pH 7.22, PaCO₂ 68 mm Hg, PaO₂ 78 mm Hg, HCO₃⁻ 26 mEq/L. Indicate acid–base imbalance caused by hypoventilation.
What is Respiratory Acidosis?
This refractive error makes nearby objects blurry, and patients may complain of eye strain or headaches when reading.
What is farsightedness (blurred near vision)?
Hospice services are structured into what four levels of care to meet patients’ varying needs, ranging from routine home support to 24-hour crisis management.
What are Routine Home Care, Continuous Home Care, Inpatient Respite Care, and General Inpatient (GIP) Care?
Patients with hearing deficits show what types of signs that may frequently indicate a hearing loss?
what is increase TV or radio volume, speak loudly, and difficulty understanding speech in crowds?
A nurse is preparing to administer naproxen 500 mg PO BID for a client who has osteoarthritis. The amount available is naproxen 125 mg/5 mL oral suspension. How many mL should the nurse administer per dose? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number).
What is 20 mL?
Because this condition causes excessive loss of intestinal fluids, patients with chronic diarrhea are at risk for this electrolyte imbalance.
What is Hypokalemia?
When teaching a client with glaucoma, the nurse explains that this is the most common type of vision loss experienced by these patients.
What is peripheral vision loss?
This important hospice care principle emphasizes respecting each patient’s beliefs, traditions, and values
What is cultural sensitivity in hospice care?
This inner ear disorder causes episodes of vertigo, tinnutis and symptoms that come and go but can lead to permanent hearing loss over time.
What is Ménière’s disease?
A nurse is preparing to administer 1,000 mL of lactated Ringer’s IV over 6 hr. The drop factor of the manual IV tubing is 10 gtt/mL. The nurse should set the manual IV infusion to deliver how many gtt/min? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number).
What is 28 gtt/min?
When a patient is experiencing hypovolemia, the nurse would expect signs related to decreased circulating blood volume.
What is low blood pressure, what is thirst, what is a weak pulse, what is tachycardia, what is elevated BUN, what is oliguria?
This eye emergency causes a sudden “shadow” or “curtain” over part of the visual field and requires immediate treatment to prevent permanent vision loss.
What is retinal detachment?
Patients are most often admitted to hospice when they what type of terminal illnesses that no longer respond to curative treatment, and life expectancy is six months or less.
What are cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease)?
This type of hearing loss occurs in the outer or middle ear, such as earwax buildup or fluid.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This diagnostic procedure involves removing a small sample of tissue or cells so they can be examined under a microscope.
What is a biopsy?
When a patient has fluid overload, excess fluid accumulates in the vascular and interstitial spaces, leading to these common assessment findings.
What is increased blood pressure, what is edema, what is crackles in the lungs?
In this retinal disease common in older Caucasian smokers, central vision blurs and straight lines look wavy, patients say “faces look distorted.”
What is age-related macular degeneration (AMD)?
This approach in healthcare brings together professionals from different disciplines such as nurses, physicians, social workers, and chaplains
What is interdisciplinary collaboration?
These nursing interventions help promote safety and communication for patients experiencing visual, hearing, or other sensory impairments
What are strategies such as keeping pathways clear, using assistive devices (glasses, hearing aids), speaking clearly and facing the patient, using touch appropriately, labeling items, ensuring adequate lighting, and providing written or visual cues?
This type of surgery is performed to prevent cancer rather than to treat it, often involving the removal of tissue or organs at high risk.
What is prophylactic surgery?
When providing dietary teaching to a client who has a history of recurring calcium oxalate kidney stones, the nurse would suspect which electrolyte is elevated.
What is calcium (hypercalcemia)?
This eye condition causes redness, thick purulent discharge that may cause the eyelids to stick together.
What is bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye)?
This specialized form of medical care focuses on relieving symptoms, pain, and stress of serious illness offered at any stage of disease, not just end of life.
What is palliative care?
This type of hearing loss results from damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve, often caused by aging and it is usually permanent.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This systemic cancer treatment uses powerful drugs to destroy rapidly dividing cells throughout the body and may cause side effects like hair loss, nausea, and fatigue.
What is chemotherapy?