Mobility
This is a plastic, sometimes cloth, safety device for staff to hold on to while mobilizing a patient.
What is a gait belt?
2 units of insulin
Biohazard
What is isolation status?
This is a plastic bracelet with patient health information (PHI).
What is a patient wrist band?
This is where you chart a head to toe assessment.
What are the flowsheets?
Standard, Front Wheeled, or Four Wheeled
What is a type of walker?
What is a diabetes mellitus diagnosis?
Table (think excel sheet)
What are assessments due?
What is a sharps container?
Low, Moderate, and High
What are fall risk categories?
This device is utilized to mobilize a totally dependent patient from bed to chair or vice versa.
What is a hoyer lift?
What is long acting insulin?
Red double exclamation points
What is a critical lab result?
This alerts staff that a patient has moved from the bed.
What is a bed alarm?
person, place, situation, and time
What are orientation questions?
What is a stand pivot?
Within 20 minutes of blood glucose
How soon do you give short acting insulin?
What is a due task?
You should always position this way when in patient room.
What is between patient and the door?
Edema, pulse, capillary refill, sensation, color, and temperature
What is a peripheral neurovascular assessment?
This type of stability tool assists patients with hemiparesis after a stroke.
What is a hemi-walker?
Ante cibum et hora somni is latin for before meals and at bedtime
What is ACHS?
Mortar & Pestle
What is a medication due?
This code locks the cubby with patient specific medications.
What is their room number?
What is the abdomen?