SBAR
This component of SBAR provides a concise statement of the patient’s current problem.
What is Situation?
This is the process nurses use to observe, interpret, and make decisions about patient care
What is clinical judgment?
This is the daily routine of activities that maintain cleanliness and grooming of the body.
What is personal hygiene?
The process of helping patients learn health-related behaviors, knowledge, and skills.
What is patient education?
Which is the primary criterion for admission to a long-term care facility?
What is inability to provide self care?
During SBAR, this component communicates objective and subjective data gathered by the nurse, including vital signs and clinical observations.
What is Assessment?
This rule helps nurses decide which patient problem to address first, based on airway, breathing, and circulation.
What is ABCs (Airway, Breathing, Circulation)?
This is the most common complication when hygiene is neglected in bedridden patients.
What are pressure ulcers (bedsores)?
Demonstrating how to perform a skill and then letting the patient try is called this teaching method.
What is return demonstration?
Which is the main focus of care for a school nurse?
What is community care?
A nurse is providing SBAR for a patient with sudden shortness of breath. The nurse mentions the patient has COPD and recently had a chest infection. This information fits under which SBAR component?
What is Background?
Making assumptions without validating cues can lead to this type of error in nursing care.
What is misjudgment or misdiagnosis?
Massaging this type of tissue is avoided because it can damage capillaries in fragile skin.
What are bony prominences?
Asking the patient to describe what they understood from the teaching session is an example of this.
What is teach-back method?
What type of communication is this: "Why did the health care provider prescribe this medication for you?"
What are open ended questions?
The nurse reports that the patient’s oxygen saturation is 88% on room air and recommends starting supplemental oxygen. This combines which two SBAR components?
What are Assessment and Recommendation?
Four patients need care: (1) post-op, stable; (2) chest pain, diaphoretic; (3) confused, fall risk; (4) mild nausea. Which patient is the highest priority and why?
What is the patient with chest pain, because of potential acute coronary syndrome?
Using separate washcloths for different areas of the body prevents this type of infection spread.
What is cross-contamination?
A patient speaks a different language than the nurse. Using an interpreter helps overcome this type of barrier.
What is communication barrier?
Which quality in a nurse helps the nurse to become effective in providing for a client's needs while remaining compassionately detached?
What is empathy?
A nurse calls to report a patient with chest pain and states, “I am calling about Mr. Smith, a 67-year-old male with a history of CAD who is experiencing sudden chest pressure.” Identify the SBAR steps used in this opening statement.
What are Situation and Background?
The last step in Tanner’s model where the nurse thinks about what worked and what could be improved.
What is reflecting?
This is the single most important action to prevent infection during hygiene care.
What is hand hygiene (washing hands)?
A nurse encourages a patient to verbalize fears about surgery and then validates them. This technique is an example of:
What is active listening and empathy?
A nurse is caring for a client with terminal cancer. The family would like the client to continue aggressive treatment but the client has told the nurse that they would prefer comfort care. The nurse speaks to the family about the client's wishes, condition, and terminal state. This action is likely derived from which nursing obligation?
What are ethical principles?