Physical Assessment
Acronym (in full words) used to describe normal pupil assessment
What is Pupils Equal, Round, Reactive to Light and Accommodation?
The correct placement of a urinary drainage bag.
What is below the level of the bladder?
Any intentional offensive touching or physical contact without consent or lawful justification.
What is battery?
A term to describe the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
What are social determinants of health?
A non-violent wrist restraint requires this minimum reassessment frequency.
What is Q2H?
Partial-thickness skin loss, presenting as shallow open wound or blister. Typically has a pink or red wound bed.
What is a Stage 2 Pressure Injury?
This type of incontinence occurs when pressure such as coughing or sneezing causes leakage.
What is stress incontinence?
This person obtains informed consent for procedures.
Who is the provider performing the procedure? OR Who is the physician or surgeon?
Nurses should use this method to confirm patient understanding.
What is the teach-back method?
This mask delivers the highest oxygen concentration without intubation.
What is a non-rebreather mask?
This lung sound is commonly heard in patients with fluid overload.
What are crackles?
This type of catheter is inserted for long-term drainage.
What is a Foley Catheter or indwelling catheter?
The ethical principle meaning “do no harm.”
What is nonmaleficence?
This term describes one’s personal lens through which they interpret the world.
What is a worldview?
A patient with C. difficile requires these specific precautions.
What are contact precautions?
What is handwashing with soap and water?
This test, performed by having the patient stand with eyes closed and feet together, assesses proprioception and cerebellar function.
What is the Romberg test?
The amount of urine output expected per hour.
What is 30 mL/hr?
Failing to take proper care resulting in harm is this legal term
What is negligence?
This type of research describes data collected in a non-numerical form, such as interviews
What is qualitative research?
ABG showing pH 7.25, CO₂ 60 and HCO3 30 indicates this imbalance.
What is Partially compensated Respiratory Acidosis?
This cranial nerve innervates the lateral eye movements assessed by the 6 cardinal fields of gaze.
What is the Abducens (Cranial Nerve VI)?
The most common cause of constipation in hospitalized patients.
What is opioid use?
OR What is immobility?
A group that addresses ethical issues arising in patient care within healthcare settings.
What is an ethics committee?
The degree to which a patient has the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information.
What is health literacy?
This IV solution is isotonic and used for fluid volume deficits
What is 0.9% NaCl or normal saline?
OR What is Lactated Ringers