General
Serous fluid-filled, smaller than 1 cm, examples; blister, herpes simplex, varicella.
What is a vesicle?
This mode of transmission includes sneezing, coughing, talking.
What is droplet?
Movement of a body part so the ventral (front) surface faces down.
What is pronation?
Influences health beliefs, health practices, and responses to treatment of illness and injury.
This describes communication between two people.
What is interpersonal communication?
Support and defend clients' health, wellness, safety, wishes, personal rights, including privacy.
What is patient advocacy?
Compromised defense mechanisms, leave the host more susceptible to infections.
What is susceptible host?
Describe interventions to prevent falls.
Clear pathway, appropriate use of assistive devices, patient has glasses/hearing aids, clean up spills, assist patients as needed, frequent checks, offer restroom often, adequate lighting, remind patients of call light, side rail use.
A nurse is knowledgeable about the cultures prevalent in their area of practice.
What is cultural sensitivity?
This communication includes appearance, posture, facial expressions, and eye contact.
What is nonverbal communication?
A commitment to do no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
The best way to prevent HAIs.
What is hand hygiene?
What is kyphosis?
A system of beliefs practiced to express one's spirituality, typically related to a particular form of worship.
What is religion?
A display of acceptance of clients, families, and significant others encourages open, honest communication.
What is a nonjudgmental attitude?
Right task, Right circumstance, Right person, Right direction and communication, Right supervision and evaluation.
What are the five rights of delegation?
What is an infection?
Maximum amount of movement of a joint.
What is range of motion (ROM)?
Some may practice this diet within the Judaism culture.
What is a kosher diet?
What is clarifying techniques?
Includes self-actualization, self-esteem, love/belonging, safety/security, physiological.
What is Maslow's heirarchy of basic needs?
Medications that are used for fever and discomfort.
What are antipyretics?
This assessment looks at eye, verbal, and motor response, and assigns a number value based on client's response.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
Nurses that understand and address the entire cultural context of each client they care for.
What is cultural competence?
Essential components of therapeutic communication include: (list 5)
What is time, attentive behavior, caring attitude, honesty, trust, empathy, nonjudgmental attitude?