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

* Thoracic aneurysm

* 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