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NSG122/ NSG 122 Exam 2: (New 2024/ 2025
Update) Nursing Fundamental Concepts
Review| Questions and Verified Answers|
100% Correct| A Grade – Herzing
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How far do you go into a patients tracheostomy? Answer: Until you meet resistance
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What happens if a patients chest tube comes out? Answer: Put into sterile water
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Metered Dose Inhaler Teaching Answer: shake canister before use Take a deep breath, exhale, inhale slowly while depressing the medication Hold breath for 5-10 seconds Exhale slowly with pursed lips Wait 1 - 5 mins before next dose RINSE MOUTH AFTER EACH DOSE TO PREVENT THRUSH
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Influenza prevention Answer: vaccine
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What should you look for with each dressing change? Answer: Pain? Color Odor Consistency Discharge
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What is a reservoir? Answer: A place where microorganisms survive, multiply, and await transfer to a susceptible host. FOOD, ANIMAL, PERSON, or INSECT
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What are the risk with ticks? Answer: Lyme disease. Remember on exam WOODED Areas.
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C. Diff precautions Answer:
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How do you maintain sterile field? Answer:
- Do not turn back
- 1 inch border
- Keep hands above waist
- Open away from you
- Do not reach across
- Do not splash saline
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Nursing procedures that require sterile field? Answer: Tracheostomy cleaning, and foley catheters
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When should sputum be collected? Answer: first thing in the morning before eating or drinking
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Coughing patient teaching Answer: take a deep breath and cough really hard to produce movement of sputum.
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What should you educate patients who smoke? Cessation! If they quit before, asked them what worked
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Needle stick procedure immediately flush the site with soap and water/hand sanitizer
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In which direction do you clean a wound? top to bottom
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serasanguineous drainage containing serum plasma and blood, pale pink yellow
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What type of drainage is normal post-op? Serasanguineous
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Who is at risk for pressure injuries? Patients who are dehydrated. Check fluid status!
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How much water should patients drink per day? 2 - 3 liters or 8 - 10 glasses of water
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Nurse intervention for pressure injury Add protein to patients diet
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Albumin levels 3.4-5.
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Why should you not use alcohol based lotions?
Dries out the patients skin
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Penrose drain Answer: a flat, thin, rubber tube inserted into a wound to allow for fluid to flow from the wound; it has an open end that drains onto a dressingS
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wound stages Answer: Red non-blanch able Partial thickness Full thickness (Bone showing) Full thickness (Everything showing)
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tidal volume Answer: Amount of air that moves in and out of the lungs during a normal breath
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lung compliance Answer: expansibility of the lung
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What do you clean hearing aids with? Answer: Wipe with soap and water
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How do you take contact lenses out for patients? Answer: Pinch and pull straight out
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Do we clip toenails in healthcare settings? Why? Answer: No, to prevent infections from occurring
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Describe Wound Answer: Approximated clean surgical incision.
