Discussion Post: Fundamentals of Nursing
• When should you place a patient in restraints and what are the rules for use of physical restraints (i.e. documentation, time, and site for tying).
• What are the advantages or disadvantages of using a safety waist restraints?
• When applying a mummy restraint who does it best serve and why?
• Before a patient can go to surgery the nursery is responsible for patient teaching. What things will you teach your patient prior to surgery?
• What does the nurse need to check prior to sending the patient to surgery on the day of surgery?
• What are the things the nurse needs to do before assisting the patient with ambulation?
• When a patient is confined to bed what type of aids can help with circulation?
• To move a patient up in bed what is it that the nurse does to prevent injuries to her and others?
• Hair, skin, and nails are observed by the nurse to assist in determining a persons overall health status. What signs and symptoms would you observe if these things were not healthy?
• What is the order for abdominal assessment?
• What is the order in which you would auscultate a patients abdomen?
• When would you give a full bed bath to your patient?
• Oral care for a dependent person is not the same as for an independent person. What are the deferences and similarities?
• The nurse needs to prepare a diet that will promote wound healing and tissue repair. What types of food would be on it?
• When doing tube feedings the nurse knows that the feeding tube is in the abdomen, when he/she hears what sound or aspirates content. What range is the PH in for gastric content?
• After bolus tube feeding the nurse should follow with how much water and what position should the patient be in when he/she is done, and why?
• What are the signs of proper tube placement and appropriate absorption of tube feeding?
• What are the steps in wound irrigation?
• Your patient is discharged home with a Jackson-Pratt drain. The drain is emptied when and how often and what is noted about the characteristics of the drainage?
• Collecting a wound culture requires that the nurse does what?
• Changing a wound dressing the main goal is to prevent what?
• When giving a large volume enema the nurse knows that instilling the solution is done through gravity. Explain the procedure.
• When is a nasal gastric tube used?
• Explain the characteristics of fecal matter from a colonoscopy and an ileostomy.
• When performing ostomy care the nurse knows that the device should be changed based on what factor?
• What are the means for delivering O2 to your patient? List the types of oxygen delivery systems. What are the advantages and disadvantage for each.
• When suctioning a tracheostomy tube, the patient is observed or assessed for what signs and symptoms?
• What are steps for endotracheal tube care?
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