NURS 6550 Acute Care Study Guide for Midterm 1
MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
NURS 6550 Acute Care Study Guide for Midterm
Psychosocial
* Generalized anxiety disorder diagnosis criteria
* Treatment of acute panic attacks
* Inpatient treatment of depression
* When is serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibit
or indicated
* Venlafaxine dosing
* Endogenous depression pathophysiology
* Differences between panic attacks and panic disorder
* Depressive disorder symptoms
* Primary neurotransmitter in PTSD
* PTSD diagnosis and treatment
* Lithium side effects
* Common adverse effects of atypical antipsychotics
* Mental status changes related to UTI in elderly
* Delirium in geriatric patients
* Short Confusion Assessment Method (Short CAM)
* Types of dementia (Lewy body, vascular, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s)
* Aricept
* Management of disinhibition in elderly
* Physical findings when death is imminent
* Limits of pain medication on dying patient
* Theories about successful aging…(Erikson’s, Levinson’s, Peck’s, Butler’s)
* Psychological abuse of elders
* Transtheoretical model of change
* Death anxiety
* Assessing driver safety in elderly
* Geriatric Depression Screen
EENT
* Eye pain from medications
* Cataracts
* Chronic uveitis
* Gonococcal conjunctivitis
* Viral, allergic, bacterial conjunctivitis
* Macular degeneration
* Dacrocystitis
* Open angle glaucoma
* Metal FB in eye
* Penetrating eye injury
* Corneal abrasions
* Orbital cellulitis
* Orbital fractures
* Sensorineural hearing loss
* Conductive hearing loss
* Age related hearing loss
* Transient hearing loss
* Acute otitis media
* Vertigo (acute or central)
* Epistaxis
* Bacterial sinusitis
* Tonsillitis
* Epiglottitis
* Slit lamps, Snellen chart, Amsler grid, Wood’s lamp
* Beta adrenergic antagonists
* Cholinergic mimetic
* Prostaglandin analogs
* Osmotic diuretics
Cardiovascular disorders
* ACS protocol: low risk vs high risk mi
* Contraindications to thrombolytic therapy
* MONA
* Duke criteria for infective endocarditis
* Heart murmurs
* Endocarditis treatment
* Pericarditis s/sx and treatment: inflammation of the pericardial sac
* Treatment and findings for acute anterior wall MI
* Monitoring wedge pressures
* Medications for CHF
* Aortic stenosis: narrowing of the aortic opening restricting the blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta and may affect the pressure in the left atrium
* Diastolic failure
* Medications for acute descending aortic aneurysm:
* Treatment plans for PAD
* Risk factors for DVT
* PE risk factors
* Hypertensive urgency vs crisis
* Chronic venous insufficiency treatment
* Cardiac rehab
* Stroke treatment guidelines
* Coumadin guidelines
* How to read EKGs
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Term/Date | Walden University |
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