Medical Termonology
What is the term that we use when doing something right away, or giving a medication now?
STAT
Jesse Sleet Scales and Lillian Wald helped to expand treatment for African Americans suffering from tuberculosis and thus began the start of what?
Community Health Nursing
A student readily accepts clinical assignment without any questions regarding appropriateness of the assignment. The student most likely demonstrates:
Unilateral dependence – Student relies on external limits and controls established by authority figures due to inexperience and lack of knowledge.
A patient asks, “Would you read some passages from the holy book for me?” Should the nurse do this for the patient, yes or no?
Upon accepting a staff nurse position, a nurse finds that s/he may be required to join the union as a condition of employment. This best describes?
Closed Shop
What is the medical term that we use to describe moving upward?
What is dorsi? Example: Dorsiflexion
Decision making is based largely on science and theoretical constructs, education is prolonged, workers are autonomous, and accountability rests with the individual is know as what?
A profession
During a disaster, the sick and the injured were classified by severity of condition and treatment priority. The decisions are most likely applications of?
Utilitarianism – refers to what makes an action right or wrong is its utility with useful action bringing about the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
When the nurse-patient relationship crosses professional boundaries what can occur?
Role confusion
President Obama signed the ACA to ensure that a systematic and comprehensive reform of the entire health care system will take place for citizens of the United States. True or False
False
What is the abbreviation used when doing something twice daily?
BID
Which type of nurse can diagnose and treat common and chronic conditions
A Nurse Practitioner
A threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without the person’s consent is known as what?
Assult
The nurse and the patient begin to address tasks, they know each other in a professional context, and a comfortable relationship may exists in which phase of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship?
The working phase
The use of outcomes and research to develop policies, is a strategy used to maintain the beliefs on the future of nursing by whom?
The American Nurses Association
What is the abbreviation used when we do not want a patient to have anything by mouth?
NPO
Which degree program is the newest form of basic preparation for RN practice?
An ADN program
A patient comes to the hospital to have their gallbladder removed. What document needs to be obtained prior to the patients surgery?
Informed consent
A type of illness that develops gradually and requires on-going medical attention is known as what type of illness?
Chronic illness
When an organization uses profits to pay personnel, improve services, advertise services, provide educational programs, or otherwise contribute to the profits made back into the organization is known as what?
Non-profit organization
What is the abbreviation used when giving medications before a meal?
ac
When nurse Nancy takes a picture of her patients wound without permission to share with another nurse on the unit who has questions about a dressing change, it is known as what?
A HIPPA violation.
During a home visit, a nurse assesses the client and attempts to identify factors that prevent attainment of client’s ability to comply with treatment regimen. The nurse most likely uses which theory model to help her make decisions?
Orem's self-care model
When a patient has a hard time believing that S&S that they are feeling are being caused by illness, which phase of adjusting to illness is the patient displaying?
Disbelief and Denial
This type of care involves many healthcare professionals working together to design treatment plans for those who may need long-term care, are acutely ill, terminally ill, or need rehabilitation services.
Tertiary care services