Assessments
This type of assessment is required with a change of status in your patient.
What is a focused or targeted assessment?
For a patient with a new hemoglobin of 60, this would be the priority in notifying the medical team.
What is stat?
A person who pleads a case on someone else's behalf is called this.
What is an advocate?
Patient safety is the responsibility of this/these people.
What is everyone?
This is the standardized tool used to communicate patient findings and/or status to another health care provider
What is SBAR?
What is 60 seconds?
This is the highest priority in nursing care.
What is patient and staff safety?
This often occurs when there are barriers or challenges to doing the 'right' thing for the patient
What is an ethical dilemma?
Heparin and IV insulin belong to this category of medications at our hospital and requires this additional safety measure when administering.
What is High alert medication and Independent double check?
Handover between two nurses should be completed at this location.
What is the patient's bedside?
These are the systems that are quickly assessed when doing a critical look.
What is airway, breathing, circulation, neuro?
This is the difference in scope of practice between an RPN and RN
What is no difference?
This code is associated with an infrastructure loss or failure.
What is code grey?
What is the nurse?
This slip of paper is completed for all patients requiring in-hospital transfer with a porter.
What is 'ticket to ride'?
A patient with a cool, pale, painful leg with a weak pulse is suffering from compromise to this part of the circulatory system.
What is arterial?
A PSW who is asked to remove a fentanyl patch would most appropriately respond in this way.
What is saying that they cannot remove medication patches?
This term refers to the non-technical skills required for effective teamwork in a crisis situation.
What is crisis resource management?
This is defined as the failure or delay in recognizing and/or responding to a deteriorating patient.
What is failure to rescue?
This is the CNO standard associated with the most common patient complaints about nurses.
What is the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship?
These are the SIRS criteria related to vital signs.
What is hyper or hypothermia, tachycardia and tachypnea?
A patient who requires procedural sedation requires this type of nurse with this additional education/skill.
What is an RN with ability to interpret ECG/Cardiac rhythm?
This is cited as the primary cause of unnecessary patient deaths related to human error.
What is poor or missed uncommunication?
Patient safety events resulting in serious patient harm or death that could have be prevented are called this.
What are 'never' events?
This is defined as repeated, unwanted or harmful actions intended to humiliate, offend and cause distress.
What is bullying?