Gotta Start Somewhere
Known as the mother of nursing or the lady with the lamp
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Definition: Law established to regulate nursing practice. These define the legal scope of nursing practice.
What are the Nursing Practice Acts?
How many times can a health care provider use hand sanitizer before needing to wash their hands with soap and water?
What is three times?
Name the four vital signs
*Bonus 100 if you can name the fifth VS
What is the pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and temperature?
What is pain?
Definitions:
A.) Breathing Out
B.) Breathing In
What is A.) Exhalation and B.) Inhalation?
What does QSEN stand for?
True or False: The nursing process is a six-step systemic method for giving patient care.
*Bonus 100 for each step that you can list.
What is FALSE?
The nursing process is a five-step process.
It includes assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating.
What kind of infectious agent is the smallest microorganism?
A.) Fungi
B.) Parasite
C.) Bacteria
D.) Virus
What is D.) Virus?
When is the first time you should take a patient's vital signs?
*Hint: you would take them while completing something vital with each patient.
When is upon admission?
What is blood pressure measured in?
*Hint: this is asking what the label is when you write the BP out
What is millimeters of mercury (mmHg)?
Which profession requires a minimum of two years of further education?
A.) CRNA
B.) LPN
C.) ASN
D.) BSN
What is C.) ASN?
(Select All That Apply) The four major Nursing Aims include:
A.) Restoring health
B.) Providing education
C.) Providing end-of-life care
D.) Preventing illness
*Bonus 100 for each Nursing Aim you can name that is not listed
What is A.) Restoring health and D.) Preventing illness?
The Nursing Aims are: Promoting Health, Preventing Illness (including providing education) , Restoring Health, and Facilitating the Coping of Disability/Death (including providing end-of-life care).
Which response involves the protective mechanism that eliminates the invading pathogens and allows tissue repair?
*Hint: The two types are the Immune Response and Inflammatory Response.
What is the Inflammatory Response?
True or False: The type of treatment a patient is receiving can affect the frequency of when it is needed to check their vital signs.
*Bonus 100 for each factor that you can list that can affect
What is True?
Medical diagnosis, Comorbidities, Types of Treatments, Patients level of acuity (individuals abilities, amount of medical support needed).
Select all that apply:
Which condition(s) would be considered as a precaution when assessing a blood pressure?
A.) Mastectomy
B.) IV access
C.) A 2 cm contusion
What is A.) Mastectomy and B.) IV access
True or False: The ANA Standards of Nursing Practice include leadership and ethics.
*Bonus 200 if you can name 3 of the listed Standards of Nursing Practice from the ANA.
What is false?
The ANA Standards of Nursing Practice include: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes Identification, Planning, Implementation, Coordination of Care, Health Teaching/Health Promotion, and Evaluation.
The ANA Standards of Professional Performance include: Ethics, Culturally Congruent Practice, Communication, Leadership, Education, Collaboration, EBP and Research, Quality of Practice, Professional Practice Evaluation, Resource Utilization, and Environmental Health.
What does PICOT stand for?
Problem/Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time
Name two of the five cardinal signs of acute infection
*Bonus 300 if you can name all five signs
What is redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of function?
Which of the following would be considered febrile?
A.) Oral temp of 38.4 ° C
B.) Axillary temp of 37.4 ° C
C.) Tympanic temp of 39.9 ° C
D.) Rectal temp of 37.5 ° C
What is A, B, and C?
What is the formula to find the pulse pressure?
What is the systolic minus the diastolic?
List 3 roles of a nurse.
*Hint: one of these is a caregiver.
What is a Caregiver, Communicator, Teacher/Educator, Counselor, Leader, Researcher, Advocate, and Collaborator.
What is a type of law that may vary from state to state and that is used to define the legal scope of nursing practice?
*Hint: They also establish the criteria for the education and licensure of nurses.
What are the Nursing Practice Acts?
What kind of precautions are used in addition to standard precautions for patients in hospitals with a suspected infection that can be transmitted by airborne, droplet, or contact routes?
*Bonus 300 if you can name the 3 different types
*Bonus 500 if you can name the PPE needed for each type
What are Transmission-Based Precautions?
Contact Precautions: Gown/Gloves
Airborne: Negative airflow room, Mask/N95, Gown, Gloves
Droplet: Mask, Gown, Gloves
*Bonus 300 if you can describe where this is
You can find the apical heart by going to the clavicle and counting down the ribs until reaching the 5th intercostal space. Then move to the left and you have found the apical heart.
Define Eupnea
What is normal, unlabored respirations?
List four things that Florence Nightingale did
Recognized health and illness and the two components of nursing.
Instituted occupation and recreation therapy for patients.
Elevated the status of nursing as a profession.
Established the need for nursing education (including establishing the first nursing school and writing nursing education books)
Identified the personal needs of the patient and the role of the nurse in meeting them.
She was the first to maintain accurate records.
She believed that nursing is separate and distinct from medicine.
True or False: Nurses provide care that is supported by sound scientific research. This blends both the science and art of nursing.
*Bonus 200 if you can name this term.
What is True?
This is called Evidence-Based Practice.
What are the two types of aseptic technique and what is the difference?
What are medical asepsis (clean) and surgical asepsis (sterile)?
True or false: If a nurse is unable to find the Femoral pulse, they would then try the Popliteal pulse.
*Bonus 300 if you can list four of the eight sites that can be used to assess the pulse
What is False. You work from distal to proximal when checking the pulses. If the nurse was unable to find the femoral pulse, they would then need to listen to the apical heart.
Temporal, Carotid, Brachial, Radial, Femoral, Popliteal, Posterior Tibial, Dorsalis Pedis
Define Pyrexia
What is abnormally high blood pressure?