Nursing Fundamentals: Assessment and Principles

Fundamentals of Nursing

• Assessment of the patient involves additional assessment of vital signs.

Meeting Physiological Needs of Patients

• Sleep characteristics are essential for patient care.
• Thermoregulation is a crucial aspect of meeting physiological needs, and it involves X principles.

Comfort of Patients and Meeting their Needs

• Operation bed personal care involves mouth care, and X is an essential aspect of this process.

Administration of Medications

• Medication order involves oral administration of drugs, and X procedures must be followed.
• Procedures to give oral medication involve X steps.
• Drug administration via intramuscular injection involves X considerations.
• Locating a vein for injection involves visual inspection.
• IV cannulation involves X procedures.
• IV commensalism involves X principles.

Nutrition

• TPN feeding involves X administration.
• Enteral feeding tube involves gastrostomy tube, and X is an essential consideration.

Urinary Elimination

• Indwelling catheters involve X considerations, and assessment is crucial for their use.
• Stress incontinence is a common issue in urinary elimination, and X management is necessary.

Bowel Elimination

• Inaction of defecation is a severe nursing diagnosis in bowel elimination, and X interventions are necessary.