The circulating nurse knows sterile touches sterile. If sterile touches unsterile she needs to?
What is reestablish a sterile field.
100
Assessing the patients respirations with the administration of opioids is regulated by what agency?
What is Joint Commission - focus is safety
100
When delegating patient care to your CNA which is safe to delegate?
care plan
assess LOC
troubleshoot low 02 sat
peri-care
What is peri-care
100
When triaging patients, how would you classify a arm fracture with palpable radial pulses?
What is non-urgent
200
When using the SBAR (situation-background-assessment-recommendation) for communication with the Dr. when your patient is short of breath, what should the nurse address first?
Resp rate
Hx of Lung CA
patient is SOB
suggest Breathing Tx.
What is patient is SOB
200
When the patient changes their mind about having surgery, right before going into the OR you should?
What is call the surgeon
200
Using sterile techniques when changing a surgical dressing is regulated by which agency?
What is Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - interventions to save patients lives
200
If you delegate a task to the CNA and the task is performed incorrectly and the patient is injured. You, as the nurse will be help ??
What is accountable
200
When triaging patients, how would you classify chest stab wound and tachycardia?
What is urgent
300
What are the 5 rights of delegation?
What is right task, circumstance, person, communication, and evaluation.
300
1 day post-op patient still complaining of severe pain 1 hour after pain medication needs?
What is immediate nursing intervention
300
When making "suggestions" to the receiving nurse concerning the care of the patient using the SBAR hand off, this is considered what?
What is recommendation
300
When noting a delegated task completed incorrectly by the CNA, you (the nurse), should?
What is demonstrate the correct procedure
300
What is the purpose of triage?
What is prioritize illness severity
400
When making a medication error, you need to fill out an incident report and notify the physician. This is considered?
What is accountability
400
The circulating nurses intraoperative responsibilities include?
What is surgical asepsis, patient safety, and OR traffic.
400
When noting Coumadin orders on the patients chart, and you see a dose for a medication that is 3 times more than their regular (home) dose you should?
What is question the order - call the physician
400
When CNA reports abnormal findings with your patient you should?
What is assess the patient yourself
400
When triaging patients, how would you classify an older patient who has abdominal bleeding and is dazed and confused.
What is emergent
500
The key to being a nurse who gets her work done in a timely manner, makes less work for herself, completes a task before starting another, and reduces work frustration, improves job satisfaction is a(n) ?? nurse.
What is organized
500
The post-op patient who had a(n) EGD highest nursing intervention is?
What is assess for return of gag reflex
500
?? considers the patients preferences and values, asa well as ones own clinical expertise.
What is evidence-based practice
500
When delegating patient care to the CNA, which is appropriate for the CNA to get VS on?
patient returning from chest xray
patient transferring from ICu
patient returning from heart cath
patient returning from surgery
What is returning from xray
500
When triaging patients during a mass casualty, how would you classify a patient with no respirations or pulse?