All About The Vitals
Nurses As First Responders
Is Nursing Your Calling?
What's Your Specialty
It Could Be Anything.
100

The normal range for this vital sign is 60-100.

What is heart rate?

100

This is what you should start if someone is not breathing or responding.

What is CPR?

100

Hospitals, nursing homes, law firms, correctional facilities...

What are places nurses are employed?

100

This advanced practice nurse delivers babies.

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM)

100

This is how long you should wash your hands according to the CDC.

What is 20 seconds?

200

The artery used to measure heart rate.

What is the radial artery?

200

The depth (in inches) at which you should push during adult chest compressions.

What is 2 inches?

200

The aims of nursing are to promote ________, and prevent __________.

What are health and illness?

200

This advanced practice nurse puts patients to sleep during surgical procedures.

What is a certified nurse anesthetist?

200

This is the medical term for high blood glucose/sugar.

What is hyperglycemia?

300

Assessment values that measure body's basic functions and give clues about health status.

What are vital signs?

300

This is the action you take to assess responsiveness in an infant.

What is tap the infants foot and shout?

300

The action phase of the nursing process in which nursing interventions are carried out.

What is the implementation phase?

300

A nurse that may take care of patients with down syndrome or autism.

What is a developmental disability nurse? 

300

The primary muscle group used when turning, lifting, repositioning patients.

What are leg muscles? 

400

The force of blood against the artery walls.

What is blood pressure?

400

The first step when arriving on the scene of a possible medical emergency.

What is make sure the scene is safe?

400

In class, your educators compared the nursing process to this similar method...

What is the scientific method? 

400

The first and last name of one of the APRNs you met today in the morning panel.

What is Renee Shaw, Tonnette Jones, Myra King or Sherrise Johnston?

400

Cholecystectomy.

What is the surgical removal of the gallbladder? 

500

The pulsatile circulatory sounds heard during auscultation of the brachial artery during blood pressure measurement.

What are korotkoff sounds?

500

This is what the letters AED stand for.

What is automated external defibrillator?

500

Nurses use the patient's response to actual or potential health problems and needs to develop these...

What are nursing diagnoses?

500

This APRN career has the least number of minorities. 

What is the CRNA?

500

This is the total number of points needed for promotion to senior year. 

What is 195.20?

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