Calculating Drug Dosages and Nursing Process
If a medication lowers a patient heart rate or blood pressure, as part of the medication action, the nurse should monitor this prior to administering the medication
What are vital signs?
For immobile patients, assessment of skin and repositioning is important. This is how often a nurse should complete this?
What is at least every 2 hours?
What is visibly?
This is a tool used to communicate between nurses at shift change or to communicate with a provider on a change in condition.
What is SBAR?
A healthcare provider orders a hypotonic intravenous solution, which one of the following is hypotonic?
0.45% sodium chloride (1/2 NS)
0.9% sodium chloride (NS)
What is 0.45% NS?
When giving oral medication in liquid form, it's important to know how many of this household measurement___ are in a mL
What is an informed consent?
When injecting this type of injection, there should be no blood return when aspirating prior to administering.
What is intramuscular (IM) injection?
For pain assessment, this type of report is most accurate and demonstrates a partnership with the patient.
What is patient reported pain level?
Medications given in the gastrostomy tube need to be delivered as what?
These are the 5 steps in the nursing process?
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation?
The degree of joint mobility is called this.
What is range of motion?
Name the rights of delegation.
What is Right task, person, direction, supervision and circumstance
This is true or false, nurses should note in their patient's electronic health record, that an incident report (adverse event report) was submitted?
What is false?
What is pre-oxygenate and assess respiratory status?
You round __ when calculating intravenous infusion rates (e.g. 1000mL or 1L over 9 hours is)
What is round down (less than 0.5)?
The nurse should prioritize these 3 things when evaluation which patient to see first?
What is airway, breathing, circulation.
At what angle is an intradermal injection given?
What is 15 degrees?
The type of technique used for foley catheter insertion.
What is sterile technique?
Keeping an emergency airway supply, is necessary for this type of patient condition?
What is respiratory patients (example is tracheostomy, chest tube)?
The nurse has the following IV order: Start 1,000 mL 0.9% NaCl every 12 hr. The nurse starts the IV fluid using an IV pump and correctly sets the pump to deliver at
What is 83 mL/hr?
It is recommended to cleanse the ____ area prior to foley insertion.
What is perineal area?
The correct degree of insertion for a subcutaneous injection of a patient with the ability to pinch the tissue (2 inches or more).
What is 90 Degrees?
These are the questions a nurse asks a patient to assess their pain level to a verbal patient.
Could you rate your pain on a scale of 0-10, frequency, location, what aggravates your pain and what does your pain feel like?
What type of dressing is used for a chest tube dressing change?