NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide
Psychosocial
- Generalized anxiety disorder diagnosis criteria
- Treatment of acute panic attacks
- What are the medications for initial/first line therapy
- Inpatient treatment of depression. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- What are the therapies for patient’s that won’t eat, take meds, etc.
- When is serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor indicated, when is it contraindicated?
- Venlafaxine dosing, when is follow up? What are you monitoring?
- Endogenous depression pathophysiology is best described as?
- Differences between panic attacks and panic disorder?
- What are Major Depressive disorder symptoms?
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- Identify the primary neurotransmitter in PTSD
- PTSD diagnosis and treatment, meds (families/common meds)?
- Familiarize yourself with the side effects of Lithium
- Common adverse effects of atypical antipsychotics
- Mental status changes in elderly… how do you evaluate?
- Assessment of Delirium in geriatric patients
- Short Confusion Assessment Method (Short CAM): what things are assessed?
- Types of dementia, know differences?
- Aricept and dosing and patient teaching?
- Vascular dementia, what is it?
- Management of disinhibition in elderly
- Physical findings when death is imminent
- Limits of pain medication on dying patient
- Theories about successful aging…familiarize yourself with them
- Psychological abuse of elders. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- Death and the anxiety related to it, who’s at risk?
- Age and suicide risk in the different age groups?
- Assessing driver safety in elderly
- Geriatric Depression Screen
EENT
- What is acute angle glaucoma?
- Familiarize yourself with Cataracts, presentation? TRX?
- Chronic uveitis medication management
- Gonococcal conjunctivitis presentation and medication management
- Viral, allergic, bacterial conjunctivitis: know presentations and trx
- Macular degeneration presentation and S&S, trx
- Open angle glaucoma. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- Metal FB in eye, how do you evaluate and how do you remove?
- Penetrating eye injury treatment
- Corneal abrasions: eval, presentation, medications, teaching, follow up/referral?
- Orbital cellulitis: presentation, S&S
- Orbital fractures: patho and causes, teaching for post-op/or discharge?
- Different types of hearing loss and why they occur
- Acute otitis media: causes, trx, presentation
- Vertigo, how do you evaluate and trx?
- Epistaxis: causes, trx, what to look for in complications? Infection?
- Bacterial sinusitis: treatment, presentation, when you suspect it, what is GOLD standard of dx testing…
- Tonsillitis presentation. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- Epiglottitis presentation
- Familiarize yourself with diagnostic studies for evaluation eye conditions in acute situations
- Beta adrenergic antagonists: side effects
- Cholinergic mimetics: side effects
- Prostaglandin analogs: side effects
- Osmotic diuretics: side effects
- Bells palsy: S&S, treatment, pain management
- Know causes (agents) of tonsil/throat pain
- Know epiglottis presentation, causes and treatment
- Know cranial nerves and their function
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Cardiovascular disorders
- ACS protocol: low risk vs high risk mi
- Contraindications to thrombolytic therapy in stroke and MIs
- MONA, what is it an when is it used?
- Duke criteria for infective endocarditis, presentation and treatment
- Heart murmurs: physical exams, grades of murmurs
- Pericarditis s/sx, dx criteria and treatment
- Be familiar with different heart sounds
- Treatment and findings for acute anterior wall MI
- Monitoring wedge pressures. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- Presentation and Medications for CHF
- Aortic stenosis classic presentation
- Aortic regurgitation classic presentation
- Diastolic failure, medication management
- Thoracic aneurysm: how do you diagnosis, what is “critical “ presentation, risk factors?
- Medications for acute descending aortic aneurysm
- Treatment plans for PAD, presentation of PAD
- Risk factors for DVT, how do you evaluate and r/o
- PE risk factors, who’s at risk?
- Hypertensive urgency vs. crisis
- Secondary HTN causes. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- Chronic venous insufficiency treatment
- Cardiac rehab
- Stroke treatment guidelines, when can you start tPA? When is it contraindicated?
- Coumadin guidelines, how do you monitor, what is the goal? When do you start it?
- How to read EKGs, common leads for a MI and consider pericarditis findings…
- JNC 8 recommendations, know the recommended trx plans for various stages, when do you intervene
Respiratory
- Intermittently controlled asthma – management, recognize who to d/c, admit, etc.
- Mild asthma – management
- Rescue therapy in Asthma
- COPD – FEV1/FVC ratios, GOLD guidelines, outpt management, be able to STEP the therapy
- PE – how to diagnose, risk factors, GOLD standard for testing
- Causes of obstructive shock
- ARDS maladaptive physiologic response, diagnostic criteria, THINK PATHO
- Septic shock – vent settings. NURS 6550 Acute Care Midterm Study Guide.
- ARDS: what is happening with perfusion and ventilation?
- Pulmonary rehab and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Spirometric assessment; what do you do?
- Pulmonary fibrosis and what risks are associated with this diagnosis
- Pleural effusion: what does each fluid that can be found mean?
- Respiratory risk factors for surgery
- Pathophysiology of ARDS
- GOLD stages of COPD, know what stage is what
- Pulmonary function tests, be able to interpret
- X-ray presentations and readings for pneumonia, CHF, COPD
- CURB-65 criteria, what does each part mean, what does it stand for…
- Pneumonias, types, treatments, causes, organisms
- IGRA tests for TB
- Labs to check before starting INH
- VAP
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