Roles of Health Care Members
This person can measure I & Os, do vitals, ADLs, but cannot give medications
What is a UAP? (unlicensed assisting personnel)
In this step of the nursing process, nurses see the clients’ responses to nursing actions and form a clinical judgment about the extent to which clients have met the goals and outcomes.
What is...
Evaluation
Intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person that involves an injury or offensive contact
What is...
Battery
Social and Community Context
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THE LAW DETERMINES WHAT LPNs ARE ALLOWED TO DO IN EACH STATE
What is...
The Nurse Practice Act
This person can give medications, injections, care for stable patients, but cannot come up with the nursing care plan.
What is an LPN?
Observation, interviews with clients and families, medical history, comprehensive or focused physical examination, diagnostic and laboratory reports, and collaboration with other members of the health care team.
What is...
Assessmen/Data collection
A commitment to do no harm
What is...
Nonmaleficence
Neighbor and Built Environment
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The first priority based on Maslow’s hierarchy?
What is...
Physiological needs (food, water, oxygen, etc.)
This person can do initial assessment of patients and come up with the care plan. They can also give the initial education and do blood transfusions.
What is a RN?
During this process, established priorities and outcomes direct nurses in selecting interventions to include in care to promote, maintain, or restore the health of clients.
What is...
Planning
Fairness in care delivery and use of resources
What is...
Justice
Food and Nutrition
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Busy shift, hands are full. Name two tasks an LPN can delegate to a UAP.
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Taking vital signs, bathing, feeding, ambulation, or I&O
This person assesses and plans interventions to improve musculoskeletal function, especially of the lower extremities, to maintain mobility.
What is...
Physical Therapist
Which intervention do nurses use when they use evidence and scientific rationale to take autonomous actions to benefit clients? They base these actions on identified problems and health care needs and ensure they are within their scope of practice.
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Nurse-initiated/independent interventions
Federal law that provides protection of privacy without diminishing access to high-quality care
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Economic Stability
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This is the LPN’s FIRST action when a patient’s condition worsens.
What is...
Stay with the patient and assess vitals, LOC, injury, etc.
This person can assess swallowing problems and provide therapy to help talk again after having a stroke. Requires a doctor order.
What is a speech therapist (ST)?
The 3 components of an assessment is...
*DOUBLE HITTER*
What is...
Subjective and Objective Data
Interview
Physical Assessment
Labwork/Diagnostic
This unintentional tort occurs when a nurse fails to implement safety measures for a client at risk for falls.
What is...
Negligence
Health and Health Care
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Who do you see first? A new admit or a patient ready for discharge? And why?
What is...
New admit – needs initial assessment, discharge pt is stable.