LONG QUIZ Wound Dressing

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation - AN INJURY THAT IS CAUSED WHEN A

KNIFE, BULLET, etc. CUTS OR BREAKS
- an emergency procedure that
THE SKIN
combines chest compressions often
- A DRESSING IS USED BY A DOCTOR,
with artificial ventilation in an effort to
CAREGIVER AND/OR PATIENT TO HELP
manually preserve intact brain
A WOUND HEAL
function until further measures are
taken to restore spontaneous blood Importance:
circulation and breathing in a person
A DRESSING IS USED TO HELP A WOUND
who is in cardiac arrest.
HEAL AND PREVENT FURTHER ISSUES LIKE
Importance: INFECTION OR COMPLICATIONS. DRESSINGS ARE
DESIGNED TO BE IN DIRECT CONATCT WITH THE
 Greatly increases the chance of survival of
WOUND, WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM A BANDAGE
a patient.
THAT HOLDS THE DRESSING IN PLACE
 CPR Saves Lives
Transfer and Ambulation
Vital Signs
- Transfer – To move a person from one
- Clinical measurements, specifically place to another
pulse rate, temperature, respiration - Ambulation – The ability to walk from
rate, and blood pressure that indicate place to place independently with or
the state of a patient's essential body without assistive device.
functions.
Importance:
Importance:
TRANSFER:
 Provide data to determine a client’s usual
Allows minimum strength of the nurse when
state of health.
using proper body mechanics.
 Determine the response to physical and
Changes the patient’s surroundings.
physiological stress and medical nursing
therapy. Uses patients independence and aids in
rehabilitation.
 Allows nurse to identify procedures,
implement interventions and evaluate Prevents systematic hazards of immobilization.
patients’ response. Mobilizes the patient without causing injury.
 Serve as life saving measures for clients. AMBULATION:
Normal heart rate in an adult is 60 to 100 beats It improves the resident’s ability to socialize.
Normal respiratory rate in an adult is 12 to 20 It stimulates the appetite.
breaths per minute
It relieves pressure on the body and skin, helping
An ideal blood pressure reading is 120/80. to prevent pressure ulcers.
First Aid It helps strengthen muscles, especially those of
- Is the assistance given to any person the abdomen and legs.
suffering a sudden illness or injury, It stimulates circulation, it helps prevents
with care provided to preserve life, Phlebitis (inflammation of the veins) and the
prevent the condition from worsening, development of stroke-causing clots.
or to promote recovery.
Importance:
• Reduces pain
• Prevent muscle damage, nerves and blood
vessels
• Prevent close fracture from becoming an
open fracture
• Reduce bleeding and swelling
 FINALS - armpit or axillary
- forehead or temporal
Table of Comparison CPR between adult, child,
- rectum or rectal
and pedia
- ear or tympanic
Types of Fracture
Complete fracture – the bone snaps into two or
more parts
Incomplete fracture – bone cracks but does not
break all the way through
Open/compound fracture – bone breaks through
the skin
Closed/simple fracture – bone breaks but there is
no open wound in the skin
Homemade Oresol
The Vital Signs and Normal Ranges
- 1 cup warm water
 Temperature
- Small pinch of salt
- the degree or intensity of heat present
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
in a substance or object, especially as
expressed according to a comparative Purpose of Wound Dressing
scale and shown by a thermometer or
A DRESSING IS USED TO HELP A WOUND HEAL AD
perceived by touch.
PREVENT FURTHER ISSUES LIKE INFECTION OR
 Pulse
COMPLICATIONS. DRESSINGS ARE DESIGNED TO
- the regular expansion of an artery
BE IN DIRECT CONATCT WITH THE WOUND,
caused by the injection of blood into
WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM A BANDAGE THAT
the arterial system by the contractions
HOLDS THE DRESSING IN PLACE
of the heart.
 Respiration Purpose of Binders
- the act or process of breathing.
 Blood Pressure
- is a measurement of the force exerted
on the walls of the blood vessels
associated with the contraction and
relaxation phases of the heart.
Normal heart rate in an adult is 60 to 100 beats Purpose of CPR
Normal respiratory rate in an adult is 12 to 20  Greatly increases the chance of survival of
breaths per minute a patient.
An ideal blood pressure reading is 120/80.  CPR Saves Lives
Sights of Pulse and Temperature Reading Purpose of Vital Signs
Pulse  Provide data to determine a client’s usual
state of health.
- temporal
- carotid  Determine the response to physical and
- apical physiological stress and medical nursing
- brachial therapy.
- radial
 Allows nurse to identify procedures,
- ulnar
- femoral implement interventions and evaluate
- popiteal patients’ response.
- posterior tibial  Serve as life saving measures for clients.
- dorsalis pedis
Temperature
- mouth or oral