Pain
The patient's own words to describe pain
What is subjective data?
The hormone that is too low in diabetics
What is insulin?
decides how quickly a new patient needs treatment
What does a triage nurse do?
Telling back in your own words
what is Reflection?
Universal blood donor
what is O-negative
helps the patient to quantify pain
What is a pain scale?
The national organization that supports diabetics
What is the ADA, or American Diabetic Association?
She is revolutionized nursing care defining good nursing practices we still use today
Who was Florence Nightingale?
asking probing questions to try to understand what is meant
What is active listening?
the shape of a normal red blood cell
what is round?
a pain that feels like a sharp point
What is stabbing pain?
Body Mass Index
What is BMI?
a doctor who has graduated medical school, but is still in training to practice independently
What is a Resident?
waiting quietly while the patient gathers his thoughts
What is the communication technique of silence?
white blood cell that cleans up debris (big eater)
What are macrophages?
the pain when you can still feel an amputated limb
What is phantom limb or neuropathic pain?
The stress hormone that increases a person's risk of diabetes and hypertension
What is cortisol?
Errors, Near misses and Patient Harm events
What is an incident report for?
the first step in the nursing process
What is assessment
measures the oxygen saturation of blood
what is pulse oximetry?
Pain that has lasted longer than 6 months
what is chronic pain?
An activity that decreases your risk of diabetes
What is exercise
Assessment of fall risk done on admission and then daily
What is the Braden Scale?
ISBARR
What is the acronym for Identification, Situation, Background, Assessment. Request or recommendation, Read back
small colorless disk-shaped cell fragments without nucleui, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting
What are platelets?