Pharmacology
According to this “right” in medication administration, the nurse should check the medication label three times before giving the medication.
What is “right drug”?
Any treatment based upon clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client outcomes.
What is implementation?
This nurse is considered the “Founder of Modern Nursing” and defined nursing as both an art and a science.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This skill involves using a cotton tip applicator to measure tunneling.
What is wound care?
Treats people with trauma, severe medical conditions, or injury.
What is an emergency room (ER) nurse?
What drug is commonly used to treat an opioid overdose?
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
The nurse determines that the medication is not adequate to relieve the client's pain and requests the PCP increase the dosage or order a different classification of pain med.
What is evaluation?
This nurse established the American Red Cross in 1882.
Who is Clara Barton?
Inserting urinary catheters requires this type of field to prevent infection.
What is sterile/ a sterile field?
This type of nurse cares for patients with heart diseases or conditions, such as coronary atery disease.
What is a cardiac nurse?
This drug class shares common GI adverse effects, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
What are antibiotics?
An acronym used to identify and create adequate patient goals based on a nursing diagnosis?
What are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely) goals?
This nurse graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879, Making her America’s first Black nurse.
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
When performing this skill, it is essential for the nurse to check for redness, pus, warmth, or phlebitis.
What are infusions?
What is an oncology nurse?
This lab test is used to monitor a patient’s response to Coumadin.
What is PT/INR?
The nurse documents this type of data if a patient reports having severe chest pain when resting.
What is subjective data?
This nursing theorist's Self-Care Deficit Theory is essential to SUSON.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
This is when the pupil constricts to an object close up, then dilates to an object far away.
What is accomadation?
Integrates nursing with information and communication technologies to promote health.
What is an informatics nurse?
A severe reaction to a medication that can cause painful blisters on the skin and irritated red eyes.
What is Steven-Johnson Syndrome?
This 4-letter report helps members of a health care team relay information about a patient's condition.
What is an SBAR (Situation, background, assessment, and recommendation) report?
This nursing theorist and professor is best known for her "Theory of Human Caring".
Jean Waston
The steps used when assessing the abdomen.
What are inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion?
Care for patients who have, or are at risk of getting cancer.
What is an oncology nurse?