STUDY FOCUS GUIDE FOR BMS EXAM, SENSORY/GI

54% of exam questions will come from the skin ppt, skin lecture on assessment and handouts and important meds. Know skin assessment like the back of your handget it.back of your hand.skin tempokay.. I knowI am a dork. As for the skin meds, those with serious adverse effects would be the area of focus. The remaining exam questions will come from in order of weight are Enteral feeds/ Tubes, GI meds, the modules on eyes, ears, eye meds. Be able to recognize classes of meds and what their therapeutic effects are. Pay attention to those meds used for the eye and why they are used and their side effects. The ear disorders on which focus on are those that can have life altering effects. Be able to implement the nursing process with each disorder. What would you teach about these disorders? Read each question and turn it into a person with a pulse. Put yourself in the clinical setting when reading the questions.

Sensory/hearing loss

Skin cancer obvious clinical description Focus on glaucoma-treat/teach Meneers disease Feeding tubes why check residuals Complication of feeding tubes Meds used for certain gastric disorders Know skin assessment Glaucoma acute angle vs chrionic Cataracts clinical manifestation (lens opacity why/who has) Risk factors cats- painful/painless, can cause blindness Gastric stuff- focus on module she sent Funnel down eyeball and ear disorders