Nursing History & Roles
This famous nurse made major contributions to nursing education and helped reduce death rates during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the first step of the nursing process.
What is assessment?
A task that can be completed within a reasonable period without needing to occur at one exact time is called this?
What is a time-flexible task?
Intact skin that is red and does not blanch with fingertip pressure is characteristic of this stage of pressure injury.
What is stage 1?
A patient with C. difficile requires this method of hand hygiene after care.
What is soap and water?
This nurse founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Put the five steps of the nursing process in the correct order.
Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
A nurse is planning the morning routine and identifies that one patient's medication must be administered at a specific time. This type of task should be recognized as what?
What is a time-fixed task?
This type of wound healing occurs when the edges of a clean surgical incision are brought together with sutures.
What is first intention?
When handling soiled linens, the nurse should keep them away from this to prevent contamination.
What is the nurses clothing/body?
Laws created by individual states that define the legal scope of nursing practice are called this.
What are Nurse Practice Acts?
A patient says, "My pain is a 7 out of 10." What type of data is this?
What is subjective data?
Before changing an IV infusion rate, the nurse should verify this important source of information.
What is a provider's order?
This is the first phase of normal wound healing.
What is the inflammatory phase?
An immobile patient is at increased risk for pressure injury primarily because of this physiological problem.
What is decreased circulation?
A nurse helps protect a client's rights and supports the client's understanding of informed consent. Which nursing role is being demonstrated?
What is advocacy/the advocate role?
A nurse observes that a client's respiratory rate is 22/min and even and unlabored. What type of data is this?
What is objective data?
A nurse is deciding which patient requires attention first. The nurse should prioritize the patient with the greatest potential threat to this.
What is patient safety/physiologic stability?
This device uses negative pressure to draw wound edges together and support healing.
What is a vacuum- assisted closure?
During oral care for an unconscious patient, the nurse should turn the patient's head in this direction to help reduce aspiration risk.
What is to the side?
This healthcare professional coordinates services and helps organize the client's care needs following discharge.
Who is the case manager?
A nurse interprets assessment findings to determine what they mean and identify the patient's problem. Which critical-thinking process is being used?
What is analysis?
A nurse looks at everything that needs to be completed during the shift and determines which activities must happen first. This is called this.
What is prioritization?
A postoperative client's incision separates and internal organs are protruding through the wound. What serious wound complication has occurred?
What is evisceration?
A patient who has an injury to the skin is at risk for?
What is infection?