Researching Research
Reading this should give you a good idea of what the research article is about.
What is the abstract?
Scenario: Recognizing your buddy's mother is scheduled for an echocardiogram in the lab this day.
What is HIPAA?
What is the bedside monitor?
Hospital acquired infections.
What is a nosocomial infection?
Three factors that guide safe exposure to ionizing radiation.
What are time, distance and shielding?
Research data will often be represented by graphs in this section of the research journal article.
What is the results section?
Scenario: Putting on a lead apron before entering the Cath Lab while fluoroscopy is being used.
What is radiation safety?
Equipment designed to assist the patient's respiratory function.
What is mechanical ventilation?
A group of infection prevention practices that apply to all patients, regardless of their infection status.
What are standard precautions?
A sign on the patient's door identifying the need for gloves and a cover gown.
What are contact precautions?
A good question to consider when looking at the ethics of the research study.
What is the funding source of the study?
Scenario: After assisting a patient to use the restroom before their exam.
What is infection control or standard precautions?
Access that provides an hemodynamic waveform on the patient monitor with systolic and diastolic values close to the BP cuff values.
What is an arterial line?
Examples include MRSA and KPC.
What are multi-drug resistant organisms?
An announcement made at the hospital indicating an adult medical emergency.
When neither the patient nor the physician knows whether the patient got the active therapy, which helps to ensure unbiased findings.
What is a double blind trial?
Scenario: Knowing where the nearest fire extinguisher is in your department in case there is a hospital code called.
What is a code red?
The line in the patient's internal jugular vein that provides RA pressure and access?
What is CVP (central venous pressure)?
An organism not killed by alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
What is clostridium difficile ("c.diff")?
What is HIPAA?
Research has the potential to guide professionals to create these.
What are best practices?
Scenario: You're in the ICU and you hear someone call out "X-ray!"
What is radiation safety?
Post CABG patient drainage system connected to suction.
What are chest tubes?
The most important practice to reduce transmission of infection in healthcare.
What is hand hygiene?
When it is important to know where the red plug (outlet) is placed in the patient room.
What is emergency power?