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Finals Study Guide

1. Describe the appearance and characteristics of basal cell carcinoma. Differentiate its appearance from freckles, squamos cell carcinoma, and herpes lesions.
2. Name the symptoms of Digoxin toxicity.
3. What is important to know about the administration of NSAIDS and enteric-coated medications?
4. What is the best intervention for urinary incontinence in patients with dementia?
5. What are the signs and symptoms of acute leukemia?
6. What are long-term complications/physiologic changes of paraplegia?
7. During patch-testing for allergies, what do you need to have nearby in case of a severe allergic reaction?
8. How do you administer ear drops to a child? What position should they be in?
9. What do you know about the Controlled Substance Act of 1970?
10. What is the correct order of how drugs pass through the body?
11. Know your half-life math calculations.
12. How do you administer vaginal medications? What position should the patient be in?
13. Which form of medication has alcohol as its base?
14. What is the equivalent of 98.6 Fahrenheit in Celcius?
15. What steps need to be taken before administering NG medications?
16. What are the most common side effects of antibiotics?
17. What intervention is appropriate for a patient who has a one-sided edema and pain and also running a temperature?
18. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of Cystic Fibrosis.
19. What structure of the lungs are damaged when a patient has emphysema?
20. What is the most important intervention for a child going through Sickle Cell Crisis?
21. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (TTP)?
22. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of Right Sided Heart Failure?
23. What do you check before administering Digoxin?
24. What class of hypertensive medications have a common side effect of cough?
25. What are the common side effects of Nitroglycerine?
26. What type of precautions or protection must be taken when caring for an HIV patient?
27. What are the stages of Hypertension? What readings belong to Pre-hypertension, Stage I, II, etc.
28. What do you suggest a patient with Raynauds Disease do to prevent exacerbations?
29. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of DKA.
30. Steps in drawing two kinds of insulin.
31. What are appropriate discharge instructions after a child has had a tonsillectomy?
32. What is the connection between penicillins and cephalosporins. Indications for use and advers effects.
33. What precaution or protection applies to scabies?
34. Uses for and other names for corticosteroids. What is important teaching about this medication?
35. Uses for mineralcorticoids.
36. Signs, symptoms, and complications of hypokalemia.
37. What drug can lead to hyperkalemia?
38. Know the differences between Osmosis, Active Transport, Diffusion, and Facilitated Diffusion.
39. What does the hormone ADH do?
40. What ABG numbers will indicate metabolic acidosis or alkalosis; respiratory acidosis or alkalosis? Know the ranges.
41. Know the different kinds of pain and their characteristics.
42. What are the signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction to a blood transfusion? What is your priority action in this situation?
43. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of a fat emboli.
44. Priority nursing action when a patient reports pain.
45. What is the first step in an abdominal assessment?
46. What do you advise a patient who reports that the nitroglycerin he took hasn't relieved his chest pain?
47. What are the common and serious side effects of NSAIDS?
48. What assessment data might show that your patient is in pain?
49. What do you do first when you witness someone choke, becomes unconscious, and drops on the floor?
50. What assessment data is important to report to the doctor in a patient with closed head injury.
51. Name the different types of burns and their characteristics.
52. What does RICE stand for? (Usually in lower extremity injuries).
53. What are the different pulse points you can use to assess circulation for different parts of the body?
54. Signs and symptoms of hypovolemic shock.
55. What is the priority intervention in anaphylactic shock?
56. How do you know a patient with dementia may have pain when they cannot express themselves?
57. What is a common medication for Dementia?
58. What is the rule when it comes to wrist restraints?
59. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of tinea pedis?
60. What is hematocrit a representation of in a CBC?
61. What is aplastic anemia?
62. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus?
63. What will the doctor likely order for a patient who has sinus congestion but no temperature elevation?
64. What is a major cause of respiratory infections in a person with COPD?
65. What is priority teaching for a patient being discharged with antibiotics?
66. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of "unstable" angina?
67. Signs, symptoms, and characteristics of intermittent claudication?
68. What is priority nursing assessment action on a patient post- abdominal aortic aneurysm repair?