Bed rest. Elevate head of bed 40 degree, and keep the operative side facing upward. Monitor and report the presence of bleeding; the amount color, consistency of drainage; mad temperature. Complaints of vertigo, when patients gets out of bed.

List some of the following patient teaching for vertigo:

Lie down immediately. Take prescribed medications as instructed even if no recent attacks have occurred. Rational for low-salt diet.

What medication is used for ear disorder?

Cefaclor (Ceclor).

List the following side effects of cefaclor (Ceclor):

Skin rash. Fever. Abdominal cramping. Diarrhea.

List the following nursing implications of cefaclor (Ceclor):

Store in refrigerator. Give full course of therapy. Tell patient not to use alcohol. Give on full or empty stomach. Do not give if patient has penicillin or cephalosporin allergies.

True or False: Otitis media occurs more frequently in children, especially at 6 to 36 months, and in the winter and early spring.

True.

True or False: Children are more prone to get otitis media because their eustachian tubes are shorter and straighter and provides easier access to organism from the nasopharynx to travel to the middle ear.

True.

Sometimes called the swimmer's ear.

External otitis.

An inflammation or infection of the external canal or the auricle of the external ear.

External otitis.

The removal of excess vitreous fluid caused by hemorrhage and replacement of normal saline.

Vitrectomy.

List the following nursing interventions and patient teaching on vitrectomy:

Require patient to lay on their abdomen or sit forward, resting the nonoperative side of the head on a table; maintain position for 4 to 5 days. Dark glasses are prescribed post-op to decrease the discomfort of photophobia.

Post-op care of vitrectomy includes:

Assessing the eye patch; bleeding. Applying cold packs. Monitor vital signs; fever.

True or False: Enucleation of the eye is the surgical removal of the eyeball.

True.

List a nursing intervention and patient teaching for enucleation:

Apply a pressure dressing over the socket of the eye to control hemorrhage.

True or False: During enucleation, an implant is inserted into the eye socket; allowing the patient to have a prosthetic eye fitted and place once the surgical wound has healed.

True.

True or False: The sensation that the person or objects are moving or spinning is referred to as vertigo.

True.

When communication with a patient with impaired hearing:

Ask permission to turn off or down tv or radio. Face the patient when speaking. Speak clearly and in normal tone. Write out proper names or any statements that you are nor sure was understood.

True or False: one important complication of spinal cord injury is autonomic dysreflexia or hyperreflexia.

True.

True or False: Dysreflexia or hyperreflexia is a neurologic condition characterized by increased reflex actions.

True.

True or False: Dysreflexia and hyperreflexia occurs in patients with cord injuries at the sixth thoracic vertebra or higher and most commonly in patients with cervical injuries.

True.

Objective data from a head trauma include:

Racoon eyes. Rhinorrhea (nasal discharge). Battle's signs (postauricular ecchymosis). Otorrhea (discharge from the ear).

What are the clinical manifestations of meningitis?

Kernig's sign (inability to extend legs completely without extreme pain). Brudzinski's sign. (flexion of the him and knee when the neck is flexed).

True or False: The onset of meningitis is usually sudden and is characterized by severe headache, stiffness of the neck, irritability, malaise, and restlessness.

True.

List the following sign and symptoms of meningitis:

Nausea and vomiting. Delirium. Increased temperature, pulse rate, respirations.

List the following clinical manifestations of bell's palsy (Peripheral facial paralysis):

Numbness. Stiffness or drawing sensation of the face. Unilateral weakness of the facial muscles. Loss of taste. Altered chewing ablilty, reduction of saliva on the affected side, pain being the ear on the affected side, and ringing in the ear or other hearing loss. Face appears asymmetric, with drooping mouth and neck.

True or False: The most frequent long-term disabilities of a stroke include hemiparesis, inability to ambulate, aphasia, depression, and complete or partial dependence in ADLs.

True.

Nursing interventions for stroke patients include:

Thicken liquids. Do not use straw.

True or False: Research indicates the select of patients with acute ischemic stroke can benefit form thrombolytics such as tissue plasminogen activator (tPA, alteplase [Activase]).

True

True or False: Patients who are treated within 3 hours of onset of symptoms are at least 30% more likely than patients who do not receive timely treatment to recover with little or no disability after 3 months.

True.

True or False: A TIA (transient ischemic attack) should be considered a forerunner of a stroke.

True.

List the following clinical manifestations of multiple sclerosis:

Visual problems. Urinary incontinence. Fatigue. Weakness or incoordination of an extremity. Sexual problem such as impotence in men, and swelling difficulties.

True or False: The majority of the people that have early remissions of multiple sclerosis may last for a year or more.

True.

List the following nursing intervention for patients with seizures:

Provide privacy. Maintain patient airway. Place patient in side-lying to position to prevent aspiration.

True or False: Seizures are followed by a rest period of variable length, called the postictal period.

True.

List the following structural divisons:

Central nervous system. Peripheral nervous system. Somatic nervous system. Autonomic nervous system.

True or False: If the use of contrast medium is anticipated, document and report to the health care provider any history of iodine and seafood.

True.

True or False: Iodine is present in the contrast meduim.

True.