TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABNORMAL CELL GROWTH
CANCER – CARE OF THE PATIENT ................................................................................................................. 5
CAUTION – EARLY WARNING SIGNS .......................................................................................................... 6
CARDIAC
AUSCULTATING HEART SOUNDS................................................................................................................... 7
CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 8
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT SYMPTOMS .................................................................................................... 9
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS (INCREASED PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW) .................................................. 10
CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS (LOW PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW) ............................................................ 11
CYANOTIC HEART DEFECTS MNEMONIC .................................................................................................... 12
ECG COMPLEX ........................................................................................................................................... 13
LDL - HDL ................................................................................................................................................. 14
LEFT SIDED HEART FAILURE ...................................................................................................................... 15
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ......................................................................................................................... 16
PRELOAD AND AFTERLOAD......................................................................................................................... 17
RIGHT SIDED HEART FAILURE .................................................................................................................... 18
CONCEPTS OF NURSING PRACTICE
ASEPSIS ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
CARE OF THE CHRONICALLY ILL CHILD ................................................................................................ 20
CHARTING BODY FLUIDS - COACH ........................................................................................................... 21
DAY OF SURGERY ....................................................................................................................................... 22
DEHISCENCE - EVISCERATION ..................................................................................................................... 23
IMMEDIATE POST OP RECOVERY ................................................................................................................ 24
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF BASIC HUMAN NEEDS ..................................................................................... 25
OR PATIENT ................................................................................................................................................ 26
PAIN ............................................................................................................................................................ 27
POST OP COMPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 28
POST OP NURSING CARE ............................................................................................................................. 29
PRE OP CHECKLIST – DAY OF SURGERY ..................................................................................................... 30
STEPS IN THE NURSING PROCESS ................................................................................................................ 31
THE 10 SUPERVISORY COMMANDMENTS .................................................................................................... 32
ENDOCRINE
ADDISON’S DISEASE ................................................................................................................................... 33
ADRENAL GLAND HORMONES .................................................................................................................... 34
BLOOD SUGAR MNEMONIC ......................................................................................................................... 35
CUSHING’S SYNDROME ............................................................................................................................... 36
DIABETES INSIPIDUS ................................................................................................................................... 37
DIABETES MELLITUS – NURSING CARE ...................................................................................................... 38
DIABETES MELLITUS – TYPE 1 SYMPTOMS ................................................................................................. 39
HYPERTHYROIDISM ..................................................................................................................................... 40
HYPOGLYCEMIA .......................................................................................................................................... 41
HYPOTHYROIDISM....................................................................................................................................... 42
METABOLIC SYNDROME – SYNDROME X ................................................................................................... 43
TRIANGLE OF DIABETES MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 44
FLUIDS, ACID-BASE ELECTROLYTES
ACID BASE MNEMONIC (ROME) ................................................................................................................ 45
INFLAMMATION........................................................................................................................................... 46
METABOLIC ACIDOSIS ................................................................................................................................ 47
METABOLIC ALKALOSIS ............................................................................................................................. 48
RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS ............................................................................................................................. 49
RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS .......................................................................................................................... 50
GASTROINTESTINAL
CROHN’S DISEASE....................................................................................................................................... 51
PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE .............................................................................................................................. 52
PERITONITIS – ACUTE ABDOMEN ................................................................................................................ 53
HEMATOLOGY
ANEMIA’S ................................................................................................................................................... 54
BLOOD ADMINISTRATION ........................................................................................................................... 55
BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION................................................................................................................ 56
IMMUNE
HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) ................................................................................................ 57
IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE ......................................................................................................................... 58
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS (MONO) ...................................................................................................... 59
PREVENTION OF INFECTION......................................................................................................................... 60
LIVER
CHOLECYSTITIS ........................................................................................................................................... 61
CIRRHOSIS – LATER CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS ....................................................................................... 62
HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY ....................................................................................................................... 63
HEPATITIS WITH A VOWEL .......................................................................................................................... 64
MATERNITY AND NEWBORN
ASSESSMENT TESTS FOR FETAL WELL BEING ............................................................................................. 65
CLEFT LIP – POST OP CARE ........................................................................................................................ 66
COMPLICATIONS WITH PREGNANCY ........................................................................................................... 67
DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPLASIA OF THE HIP .................................................................................................. 68
EVALUATION OF EPISIOTOMY HEALING ..................................................................................................... 69
HELLP SYNDROME (SEVERE PREECLAMPSIA) ........................................................................................... 70
HIGH RISK NEWBORN – NURSING CARE ..................................................................................................... 71
NEWBORN ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................. 72
NON-STRESS TEST ...................................................................................................................................... 73
PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGES IN PREGNANCY ..................................................................................................... 74
POSTPARTUM ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................ 75
PRENATAL CARE ......................................................................................................................................... 76
STAGES OF LABOR ...................................................................................................................................... 77
TRACHEAL-ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA ............................................................................................................. 78
MUSCULOSKELETAL
AMPUTATIONS – NURSING CARE ................................................................................................................ 79
CARE OF PATIENT IN TRACTION .................................................................................................................. 80
FRACTURES ................................................................................................................................................. 81
HIP FRACTURE – NURSING CARE ................................................................................................................ 82
JOINT REPLACEMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 83
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS ............................................................................................................................ 84
SPRAINS AND STRAINS – NURSING CARE .................................................................................................... 85
NEUROLOGY
ABNORMAL POSTURING .............................................................................................................................. 86
BELLS PALSY .............................................................................................................................................. 87
CRANIAL NERVE MNEMONIC ...................................................................................................................... 88
FAST RECOGNITION OF A STROKE ............................................................................................................. 89
INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE – NURSING CARE ........................................................................... 90
INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE (IICP) CUSHIING’S TRIAD .............................................................. 91
INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE SYMPTOMS ..................................................................................... 92
PARKINSON’S DISEASE................................................................................................................................ 93
STROKE – BRAIN ATTACK - CVA ............................................................................................................... 94
STROKE - SYMPTOMS .................................................................................................................................. 95
PHARMACOLOGY
ATROPINE OVERDOSE ................................................................................................................................. 96
EAR DROPS ADMINISTRATION .................................................................................................................... 97
HEPARIN – COUMADIN TESTS ..................................................................................................................... 98
MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION .................................................................................................................. 99
MEDICATION CALCULATION ..................................................................................................................... 100
PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING CONCEPTS
ALCOHOL WITHDRAWEL DELIRIUM .......................................................................................................... 101
ALTERATIONS OF BODY IMAGE ................................................................................................................ 102
ASSESS CHANGES IN SENILE DEMENTIA ................................................................................................... 103
BASIC COMPONENTS OF A PSYCHO ASSESSMENT ..................................................................................... 104
BIPOLAR DISORDER .................................................................................................................................. 105
DEPRESSION .............................................................................................................................................. 106
EATING DISORDERS .................................................................................................................................. 107
HALLUCINATIONS, ILLUSIONS, AND DELUSIONS ....................................................................................... 108
MENTAL RETARDATION ............................................................................................................................ 109
PSYCH ASSESSMENT ................................................................................................................................. 110
SCHIZOPHRENIA ........................................................................................................................................ 111
SUICIDE PRECAUTIONS.............................................................................................................................. 112
REPRODUCTIVE
POST MASTECTOMY – NURSING CARE ..................................................................................................... 113
TURP ........................................................................................................................................................ 114
SECTION 3.3 .............................................................................................................................................. 115
RESPIRATORY
ACUTE LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS ................................................................................................... 116
ASTHMA .................................................................................................................................................... 117
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS .............................................................................................................................. 118
COPD ....................................................................................................................................................... 119
EMPHYSEMA ............................................................................................................................................. 120
HYPOXIA ................................................................................................................................................... 121
PULMONARY EDEMA................................................................................................................................. 122
SLEEP APNEA ............................................................................................................................................ 123
TUBERCULOSIS (TB) ................................................................................................................................. 124
SENSORY
CATARACT ................................................................................................................................................ 125
EYE MEDICATION MNEMONIC .................................................................................................................. 126
TESTING
CAT INFORMATION .................................................................................................................................. 127
TEST TAKING STRATEGIES ........................................................................................................................ 128
URINARY-RENAL
ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY (AKI) – SIGNS & SYMPTOMS .............................................................................. 129
ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY (AKI) .................................................................................................................. 130
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) – END STAGE (UREMIA) .................................................................... 131
RENAL CALCULI........................................................................................................................................ 132
URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI) ........................................................................................................... 133
VASCULAR
COMPLICATIONS OF TRAUMA PATIENT ..................................................................................................... 134
HYPERTENSION – NURSING CARE ............................................................................................................. 135
NEUROVASCULAR ASSESSMENTS ............................................................................................................. 136
POTENTIAL CIRCULATORY COMPROMISE (PMS) ...................................................................................... 137
SIGNS OF SHOCK ....................................................................................................................................... 138