Emergency Medications
This medication is used to treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias like V-tach or V-fib.
What is amiodarone?
What is the first step of the nursing process?
What is assessment?
This is the most effective method for preventing the spread of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
While assessing a patient's neurological state you ask them about what?
What is person, place, time, and situation?
Low potassium is called this.
What is hypokalemia?
This calcium channel blocker is given to slow the ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation.
What is diltiazem?
Giving medications and providing wound care occur in which step of the nursing process?
What is implementation?
This type of precaution is used for tuberculosis.
What is airborne precaution?
When auscultating the lungs, you listen to this many lobes.
What is five lobes (3 right, 2 left)?
Chvostek’s and Trousseau’s signs indicate this electrolyte imbalance.
What is hypocalcemia?
This medication causes vasodilation, decreases preload and afterload, and is used for chest pain (angina).
What is nitroglycerin?
What phase involves setting goals and outcomes for the patient?
What is planning?
Name two PPE items required for droplet precautions.
What are a surgical mask and eye protection (or gown/gloves)?
Capillary refill should be less than this many seconds.
What is 3 seconds?
A patient with hypernatremia may show these neurological symptoms.
What are confusion, irritability, or seizures?
This drug improves cardiac output in shock by increasing heart rate and contractility; at low doses, it can also increase renal perfusion.
What is dopamine?
After delivering care, the nurse evaluates what?
What is patient response or outcomes?
C. difficile infections require handwashing with this instead of alcohol-based sanitizer.
What is soap and water?
Name two signs of poor circulation found during a peripheral vascular assessment.
What are cyanosis and weak/absent pulses?
Which electrolyte imbalance causes muscle weakness, decreased deep tendon reflexes, and can lead to respiratory arrest if severe?
What is hypermagnesemia?
This medication is used for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), must be pushed rapidly, and often causes a brief period of asystole.
What is adenosine?
During which step of the nursing process does the nurse identify and prioritize problems?
What is diagnosis?
List the correct order for doffing PPE.
What is gloves, goggles/face shield, gown, mask?
During abdominal assessment, this is the correct order of techniques.
What is inspect, auscultate, percuss, palpate?
Which acid-base imbalance is commonly seen with severe vomiting, and what electrolyte is often lost?
What is metabolic alkalosis and potassium?