Exam 3: NUR201 / NUR 201 (Latest
2024 / 2025 Update) Medical- Surgical Nursing I | Questions and Verified Answers 100% Correct | Grade A - Fortis
Question:
What is empiric antibiotic therapy?
Answer:
give antibiotic therapy before we get cultures back. (don't wait 24-48 hours) don't have the right answer but using our best guess.
Question:
What kind of objective data would you expect when assessing a patient with pneumonia?
Answer:
cough, auscultate lungs hear crackles wheezes, increased respiration,
tachycardia, accessory muscle use, Decreased O2 SATS, Labs: sputum culture,
ABG's, WBC increased.
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Question:
How do you treat pneumonia?
Answer:
oxygen, antibiotics, fluids, breathing treatments, pneumonia vaccine, symptom management
Question:
aspiration pneumonia
Answer:
caused by foreign matter that is inhaled into the lungs
Treatment: Thicken liquids, positioning and diet
Question:
Necrotizing pneumonia
Answer:
necrotization of lung tissue
Treatment: surgery, long term antibiotics (lung abscess issues) lungs can't get
rid of liquification must be surgically removed
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Question:
opportunistic pneumonia
Answer:
occurs in certain patients with altered immune responses who are highly susceptible to respiratory infections
Treatment: anti viral treatments.
Question:
complications of pneumonia
Answer:
atelectasis: incentive spirometer,
sepsis: fever, low bp, malaise, fatigue, - fluid and antibiotics
Plural effusion: fluid in plural space: sharp chest pain, hard to breath, coughing
treatment: thorocentisis, chest tube
pneumothorax: (colapsed) lung, chest tube
acute respiratory failure: may need to be intubated until pneumonia is under
control.
Question:
What findings would you expect when assessing a patient with TB?
Answer:
non-productive cough, night sweats, fever, weight loss
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