Implementing Nursing Care
The phase that involves direct and indirect nursing interventions.
What is Implementation Phase
The final step involving conducting measures to determine whether nursing interventions have been effective and have met expected outcomes.
What is the evaluation process
The nursing care model that is the least feasible with the current nursing shortage.
What is total patient care
The best way to assess a patient's pain level
What is asking the patient to rate the pain
The needle size (give gauge and length) used to give an IM injection in the deltoid muscle
What is 25 gauge 5/8 inch
Assessment is a continuous process that occurs each time you interact with a pt. During the initial phase of implementation the nurse must do this.
What is Reassess the patient
The purpose of evaluation
What is to determine the effectiveness of care
Defined as freedom of choice and responsibility for choices.
What is autonomy
When a patient needs higher doses of an opioid to control pain.
What is opioid tolerance
The purpose of aspiration when giving an IM injection
What is ensuring proper placement
The type of skills that involve developing trusting relationships with patients and convey compassion.
What is interpersonal skills
The type of measures used to determine whether patients have met their goals and outcomes.
What is evaluative measures
A nurse in the clinical setting should complete one task before what?
What is starting the next task
The best way to manage chronic pain
What is giving pain medications around the clock
The route of medication which is the fastest for absorption owing to the increase in blood flow
What is IV
Teaching is this type of nursing intervention
What is a Direct Nursing Intervention
After a change in a patients conditions or an untoward event, the nurse attempts to identify this
What are factors interfering with goal achievement
Refers to individuals being answerable for their actions.
What is accountability
Medication used to reverse the effects of opioid overdose
What is narcan
The person or persons responsible for a medication error
What is the person administering the medication
Any treatment based on clinical judgement and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes.
What is a nursing intervention.
After assessing a patient and identifying a need for a pain medication and giving the pain medication, this is the next priority action.
What is Reassessing the patients pain level in 30 minutes
A care approach that coordinates and links health care services to patients and families while streamlining costs.
What is care management
This analgesic medication decreases the synthesis of prostaglandins to inhibit cellular responses to inflammation?
What is ibuprofen
A doctor orders 1000ml of fluid to infuse at a rate of 100ml/hr. the nurse starts the fluids at 0700. The nurse should plan on hanging the new bag of fluids at what time?
What is 1700