NR-224 Fundamentals
Exam 1
1. who is ultimately responsible for the patient, even when delegation is involved?
- Nurse (RN)
2. what are a nurse’s responsibilities involving delegation?
- Needing to apply critical thinking to
appropriately delegate the care, give clear instructions.
3. What is most important technique to use in preventing and controlling
transmission of infection?
- Hand washing
4. 6 Components in the Chain of Infection
- A reservoir or source for pathogen growth
- A port of exit from the reservoir
- A mode of transmission
- A port of entry to a host
- A susceptible host
5. List and describe the different body defense mechanisms
- The body has natural defenses that protect against infection. Normal floras,
body system defenses, and inflammation are all nonspecific defenses that
protect against microorganisms regardless of prior exposure. If any of
these body defenses fail, an infection usually occurs and leads to a serious
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health problem. The skin, respiratory tract, and GI tract are easily
accessible to microorganisms
6. Describe examples of patients at high risk for infection
- An age-related functional deterioration in immune system function, termed
immune senescence, increases the susceptibility of the body to infection
and slows overall immune response
7. What lab result signifies infection when it is elevated?
- White blood cell (WBC) count 5000-10,000/mm3 Increased in acute
infection, decreased in certain
viral or overwhelming infections
8. Having an impaired immune system
- immunocompromised
9. The ability to produce disease
- Virulence
10. Internal transmission such as a parasitic condition in a host such as a mosquito,
louse, flea, or ticks
- Vector
11. Requires oxygen for survival and for multiplication sufficient to cause
disease.
- Aerobic bacteria
12. Thrives where little to no oxygen is available
- Anaerobic bacteria
13. Prevention of growth and the reproduction of bacteria.
- bacteria stasis
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14. Destructive to bacteria
- bactericidal
15. What are the stages of infection?
- incubation, prodromal, illness, decline, convalescence
16. critical thinking
- the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to
question and reflect on the reasoning process
17. characteristics of critical thinking
- open-mindedness
- continual inquiry
- perseverance
- willingness to look at each unique patient situation and determine which
identified assumptions are true and relevant
18. clinical decision making
- Requires careful reasoning (i.e., choosing the options for the best patient
outcomes on the basis of a patient's condition and the priority of the
problem).
- Skilled clinical decision making occurs through knowing the patient.
- It has two components: a nurse's understanding of a specific patient and
his or her subsequent selection of interventions.
19. critical thinking model
- Combines a nurse's knowledge base, experience, competence in the
nursing process, attitudes, and standards to explain how nurses make
clinical judgments that are necessary for safe, effective nursing care.
20. Basic level
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