Life Stages
According to Erikson, this is the primary developmental task for an infant (0–1 year).
What is Trust vs. Mistrust?
This level of prevention focuses on immunizations and education to prevent a disease before it ever occurs.
What is Primary Prevention?
This is the expected color and consistency of the first stool passed by a newborn.
What is Meconium?
When assessing an adult's ear with an otoscope, the nurse pulls the pinna in these two directions.
What are Up and Back? (Down and back for kids under 3).
This is the most important "right" when it comes to patient teaching: ensure the patient is ready to ____.
What is Learn?
This type of play is characteristic of toddlers, where they play near other children but not with them.
What is parallel play?
This common screening test for cervical cancer is recommended for women starting at age 21.
What is a Pap smear?
This formula (Naegele's Rule) is used to calculate the Estimated Date of Delivery (EDD).
What is subtract 3 months, add 7 days to the First Day of the Last Menstrual Period?
This is the correct sequence for performing an abdominal assessment.
What is Inspect, Auscultate, Percuss, Palpate?
This is the first action a nurse should take when a client refuses a prescribed vaccination.
What is explore the client's reasons (or assess their knowledge)?
At this age, a child should typically be able to double their birth weight.
What is 5 to 6 months? (Birth weight triples by 12 months).
This is the standard "rule" used to estimate the percentage of body surface area burned in an adult.
What is the Rule of Nines?
These are the bluish-gray spots found on the sacral area of some newborns, often mistaken for bruises.
What are Mongolian spots (Congenital dermal melanocytosis)?
A "whooshing" sound heard over a narrowed artery is known as this.
What is a bruit?
For a patient with a BMI of 32, the nurse should provide education regarding this weight classification.
What is Obese?
A decline in height and an increased risk of falls in the older adult is often attributed to this musculoskeletal condition.
What is Kyphosis (or Osteoporosis)?
The nurse should instruct a patient that this type of "occult" screening should be done annually to detect colorectal cancer.
What is a Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) or FIT?
This acronym describes the assessment of the fundus, lochia, and perineum in a postpartum patient.
What is BUBBLE-HE?
To assess this cranial nerve (CN II), the nurse asks the patient to read a Snellen chart.
What is the Optic nerve?
To prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the nurse teaches parents to place the infant in this position for sleep.
What is the Supine (Back) position?
This Piaget stage describes an adolescent's ability to think abstractly and use logic to solve problems.
What is the Formal Operational stage?
When teaching a post-menopausal woman about bone health, the nurse should emphasize an intake of 1,200 mg of this mineral daily.
What is Calcium?
A pregnant client at 32 weeks gestation reports sudden, painless, bright red vaginal bleeding; the nurse suspects this condition.
What is Placenta Previa?
A skin turgor assessment that results in "tenting" is a primary indicator of this condition.
What is Dehydration?
When teaching a patient about a new medication, the nurse asks the patient to repeat the instructions back in their own words; this technique is called ___.
What is the Teach-Back method?