Communication
This lifelong process is essential for establishing nurse-patient relationships and reducing errors.
What is therapeutic communication?
This nutrient is the main source of energy and is obtained primarily from plant foods, except for lactose.
What are carbohydrates?
This vitamin is synthesized by the skin when exposed to sunlight.
What is Vitamin D?
This scale is used daily to assess fall risk in patients.
What is the Morse Fall Scale?
This device delivers 1–6 L/min of oxygen at 24%–44% concentration.
What is a nasal cannula?
This type of communication occurs within an individual and is often called “self-talk.”
What is intrapersonal communication?
This nutrient makes up 60%–70% of an adult’s body weight and helps regulate body temperature and maintain blood volume.
What is water?
This scale is used to predict pressure sore risk and should be applied on admission and when a patient’s condition changes.
What is the Braden Scale?
This common condition in older adults involves cartilage breakdown leading to bone-on-bone friction.
What is osteoarthritis?
This position, often used by patients with severe respiratory distress, involves leaning forward with arms supported.
What is the tripod (orthopneic) position?
The term for the person initiating the communication in the communication loop.
What is the sender?
This diet includes items such as broth, tea, carbonated beverages, coffee, clear fruit juices, gelatin, and popsicles, and is often prescribed post-surgically or after episodes of vomiting or diarrhea.
What is clear liquid diet?
This type of exudate is thick, opaque, or milky and indicates infection.
What is purulent exudate?
This cardiovascular effect of immobility involves a sudden drop in blood pressure when standing.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
Restlessness, confusion, rapid heart rate, and cyanosis are common indicators of this condition involving inadequate oxygen delivery to tissues.
What is hypoxia?
This communication approach improves patient safety and reduces errors among healthcare teams.
What is SBAR?
These vitamins are stored in the liver and tissues until needed and include A, D, E, and K.
What are fat-soluble vitamins?
This stage of pressure injury involves full-thickness skin loss with exposed or palpable fascia, muscle, tendon, ligament, cartilage, or bone.
What is Stage 4 pressure injury?
This psychosocial effect of immobility can lead to decreased motivation and social withdrawal.
What is depression or isolation?
These popping sounds heard during inspiration are caused when small airways are filled with fluid, often associated with conditions like pneumonia or heart failure.
What are crackles?
This technique involves being attentive to what a patient is saying both verbally and nonverbally.
What is active listening?
This condition involves difficulty swallowing and may present with coughing while eating, changes in voice quality, abnormal mouth movements, or regurgitation, and often requires thickened liquids or speech therapy.
What is dysphagia?
This complication involves protrusion of internal viscera through an incision and requires immediate sterile saline dressings and surgeon notification.
What is evisceration?
This nonpharmacologic intervention for mobility involves structured exercises provided by trained professionals to restore function.
What is physical therapy (PT)?
This oxygen delivery device provides 10–15 L/min at 60%–90% concentration.
What is a partial or nonrebreather mask?