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A comprehensive study guide for nurs 332 exam 1, covering fundamental nursing concepts. It includes key definitions, roles of nursing, healthcare settings, the nursing process, infection control, and physiological changes in aging. The document also features multiple-choice questions and answers, providing valuable practice for exam preparation.
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Roles of Nursing: Manager CORRECT ANSWER > Establishing safe and quality care with positive patient outcomes. Roles of Nursing: Educator CORRECT ANSWER > Informal or formal teaching methods. Plans should match your patients needs, and be explained in a way they can understand. Roles of Nursing: Communicator CORRECT ANSWER > Get to know your patients needs, strengths/weaknesses, history. Communicate with others involved like family or friends. Roles of Nursing: Advocate
CORRECT ANSWER > Protecting your patients human and legal rights and help them assert those rights when needed. What are the healthcare settings and services? CORRECT ANSWER > 1. Preventative
Quality Health Care The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. Safety is a CRITICAL part of quality healthcare What is evidence-based practice? A problem solving approach combining evidence and clinical expertise, patient preferences and values, and resources to make a decisions in patient care What is Performance Improvement? A formal approach of the analysis of healthcare Evidence Based Practice (EBP) vs Performance Improvement (PI)
Roles of Nursing: Caregiver CORRECT ANSWER > To help patient maintain and regain health while including patients emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. Roles of Nursing: Autonomy & Accountability CORRECT ANSWER > Nursing Interventions without medical orders; being responsible for the type of quality provided Describe "Outcome Identification" in the Nursing Process The registered nurse identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the health care consumer or the situation Describe "Planning" in the Nursing Process To set goals of care and desired outcomes to identify appropriate nursing outcomes. Describe "Implementation" in the Nursing Process To preform nursing actions identified in the planning process
Describe "Evaluation" in the Nursing Process To determine if goals and expected outcome have been achieved, and if not achieved go back and make a new plan. Becoming culturally aware to provide patient care is.... To become more self aware of your own biases and attitudes about human behavior is the FIRST step in providing patient-centered care. What is bias? A predisposition to see people or things in a certain light, either positive or negative What is the importance of infection control and prevention? Hand hygiene, disinfection and sterilization techniques, patient safety, and using PPE when needed can control and prevent infection. What is Infection?
To sterilize means The complete elimination/destruction of all microorganism including bacterial spores What is PPE? Personal Protective Equipment like:
What is Altered Mobility?
Oral Medications Rate of Absorption Slow because they pass through the GI tract Mucus Membrane Medications Rate of Absorption Quick rate of absorption Respiratory Tract Medications rate of absorption Quick rate of absorption IV Medications rate of absorption Fastest absorption rate Majority of medications absorbed in the: Small Intestines
Most biotransformation occurs in the: Liver Excretion When medications exit the body through the kidney, liver, bowel lungs, and exocrine glands Types of Medication Action