Asepsis & Infection Control
What is Alcohol-based hand rub
The client exhibits improved responsiveness to health education when they are motivated and reassured regarding the advantages of the teaching.
What is affective domain?
What is newborns and young infants?
You should keep these flexed no more than 100 to 110 degrees.
What are the elbows working at a computer?
To check the skin temperature and moisture.
What is the palpation technique.
Nipple retracting or dimpling.
What is an abnormal breast examination?
A elderly patient with seizures needs a bath. What type of bath is most appropriate for this patient?
What is a bag bath?
Visibility soiled, before and after contact with clients, contact with microorganisms, and performing invasive procedures
What is Hand Hygiene
Involve the client in an active way in their health teaching?
What is a patient who lacks attentiveness and concentration?
Responsible for excessive sweating.
What is the hypothalamus?
To promote comfort and health in the workplace setting.
What is ergonomics?
An area of skin that has been rubbed away by friction.
What is an abrasiion?
Controlling voluntary muscle movements and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Is contraindicated for a patient with a history of stroke and oral anticoagulants (think hygiene)
What is a regular razor?
First pour and discard a small amount of solution
What is pouring fluid on a sterile field
Responds to competition
A child feels achy and unwell but does not have a fever.
What is the prodromal phase?
Holding items close to body, do not twist the waist, use your legs.
What is when lifting heavy objects?
What is hypoactive bowel sounds?
What is a normal bronchial sound?
Promotes safety at night for a newly admitted patient in an assisted living facility.
What is a night light in the bathroom?
Should stay above the waist once donned
what is sterile gloves
Limited proficiency in reading and speaking English but can sign their name.
What is functionally illiterate?
A palpable pulse for a period of time before it becomes impalpable with slightly increased pressure.
What is a thready pulse?
Clients' weakness must be primarily limited to one side of the body to use this device.
What is a cane?
Flat, round, colored, nonpalpable areas on the face.
What are macules?
Used to assess for tenderness, masses, and organ enlargement in the abdomen?
What is palpation?
Sit within 3 ft of the light for approximately 2 hours soon after awakening.
What is a full-spectrum light for seasonal affective disorder?
Best way to prevent spreading infection?
What is hand hygiene
Clients learns better by practicing self-administration of an insulin injection.
What is Psychomotor learning? (Chapter 8 pg. 105)
The most accurate way to obtain a patient's pulse.
What is apical?
Relieves pressure on the diaphragm, allowing easy breathing.
What is Fowler's position?
A normal response for the diagnostic positions test.
What is coordinated movement of both eyes?
Unilateral muscle weakness & a positive pronator drift test.
May indicate stroke or neurological impairment?
When a patient's hearing aid produces a shrill, high-pitched noise.
What is encouraging the patient to fully insert the hear aid in the ear canal?
Gonorrhea, TB, HIV, what do they have in common?
What is, developed drug-resistant strains.
What is a progress note?
Most accurate way to obtain a patient's body temperature.
Prevents the legs from turning outward.
What is a trochanter roll?
Determines the equality or disparity of bone-conducted sound.
What is the Weber test? (tuning fork)
May indicate heart valve disease.
What is a murmur heard between S1 and S2.
Decreases normal REM and deep sleep stages of NREM sleep.
What is alcohol consumption?
Requires transportation in a biohazard-sealed plastic bag
What is a collected specimen from a client?
Writing information about a clients and client care in chronological order.
Obtained in the AM and 30 minutes before meals.
What is a blood glucose level?
Decreased the widespread use of physical restraints in long-term care facilitites.
What is the Nursing Home Reform Law.
A papule is an elevated palpable solid mass. A vesicle is an elevated, round lesion filled with serum. A nodule is an elevated solid mass.
What is they are all types of lesions?
Presence of rectal fissures.
What is indicative of chronic constipation?
Nonrapid eye movement sleep, which progresses through four stages, is also called.
What is slow wave sleep?
Respiratory Hygiene (cough etiquette)
Safe Injection Practices,
Practices for Special Lumbar Puncture Procedures
What are the new CDC standard precautions for infection control?
Can be accessed simultaneously by multiple healthcare providers from various workstations.
What is electronic health records?
Adjust the client's position, apply supplemental oxygen to relieve what condition.
What is dyspnea?
Clients with disabilities such as arthritis or cerebral palsy use.
What is a four-point walking gait?
Yellow discoloration of the skin. Yellowing of the sclera and musous membranes. What is the appropriate action of the nurse?
What is palpation for liver enlargement?
Abdominal finding of generalized abdominal distension with a fluid wave.
What is an underlying issue such as ascites or a tumor?
Sleep paralysis occurs when the person cannot move for a few minutes just before falling asleep or awakening.
What is sleep paralysis and automatic behavior?