Reading the Signs
The normal range for this vital sign is 60-100.
What is pulse?
The single most effective way to prevent the spread of infection, and it doesn’t require a prescription.
What is hand hygiene (handwashing)?
In class, your educators compared the nursing process to this similar method...
What is the scientific method?
This specialty involves transporting critically ill patients by helicopter advanced life support.
What is flight nursing?
or critical care transport
These two are used to verify your patient's identity.
What are name and DOB?
The artery most commonly used to measure heart rate.
What is the radial artery?
If germs had a favorite accessory, it would be this six-link chain that helps them travel host to host.
What is the chain of infection?
This is the first step of the nursing process, where you collect patient information.
What is assessment?
This nurse’s specialty is making sure you don’t remember your surgery, in the best way possible.
What is a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA)?
Hospitals, schools, law firms, correctional facilities...
What are places nurses work?
Assessment values that measure body's basic functions and give clues about health status.
What are vital signs?
Hand sanitizer is ineffective against this organism, making soap-and-water washing essential.
What is Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)?
The action phase of the nursing process in which nursing interventions are carried out.
What is the implementation phase?
This specialty focuses on caring for patients in the final stage of life, emphasizing comfort and dignity.
What is hospice nursing?
The aims of nursing are to promote ________, and prevent __________.
What are health and illness?
This is the bottom number in blood pressure, when your heart is chilling between beats.
What is diastolic pressure?
This is the FIRST item of PPE to doff to reduce contamination risks.
What are gloves?
Nurses use the patient's response to actual or potential health problems and needs to develop these...
What are nursing diagnoses?
If nursing had a “true crime” specialty, it would definitely be this one.
What is forensic nursing?
Instead of decisions coming only from the top down, this model gives nurses a “seat at the table.”
What is shared governance?
A patient with a temperature of 35°C would be classified as having this condition.
What is hypothermia?
The link in the chain of infection that refers to where the pathogen lives and grows.
What is the reservoir?
This step of ADPIE determines whether nursing interventions were effective.
What is evaluation?
Not a nurse practitioner, but still advanced practice, this nurse specializes in systems, leadership, and clinical expertise.
What is a clinical nurse specialist (CNS)?
This serious complication of untreated infection can lead to organ failure and death.
What is sepsis?