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NURS 6550 Midterm Exam Study Guide – Acute Care Study Guide for Midterm

(17 Pages)

Psychosocial

• Generalized anxiety disorder diagnosis criteria
• Treatment of acute panic attacks
• Inpatient treatment of depression
• When is serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor 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 nurs 6550 midterm
• 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