Vocabulary
This term refers to a systematic examination of body structures.
What is a physical assessment?
This term refers to striking or tapping part of the client’s body with the fingertips to produce vibratory sounds.
What is percussion?
This instrument measures the amount of glucose in capillary blood.
What is a glucometer?
Infection results when these cause injury to a host.
What are microorganisms?
While wearing a mask and caring for a client, the nurse should avoid taking this mask-related action.
What is adjusting the mask?
This term refers to lightly touching or applying pressure to the body.
What is palpation?
Bowel sounds are described as this if they occur following long intervals of silence.
What is hypoactive?
This imaging test uses sound waves in ranges beyond human hearing to examine soft tissue.
What is an ultrasound?
Older clients are more susceptible to infection due to an age-related decrease in this system's function.
What is the immune system?
This package condition indicates a surgical instrument is safe from contamination.
What is a dry, sterile wrapper?
This term refers to an assessment technique for differentiating sound transmission via air versus sound transmission via bone.
What is the Rinne Test?
When listening to a client's lung sounds, the nurse should document abnormal, high-pitched, popping sounds during inspiration as this.
What are crackles?
This procedure, which involves inserting a needle between lumbar vertebrae in the lower back, also lends its name to the title of a 1984 mockumentary.
What is a spinal tap?
This term refers to a condition in which microorganisms are present, but the host does not manifest any signs or symptoms of infection.
What is colonization?
A client with a skin infection in a multi-person household should take what action with regard to communal bathroom supplies?
What is stopping sharing soaps, towels, and washcloths?
This adjective describes microorganisms that require oxygen to survive.
What is aerobic?
This position involves the client standing with their torso leaning forward and is often used for examining the prostate gland in men.
What is the modified standing position?
This procedure uses optical scopes for visual examination of internal structures.
What is an endoscopy?
This term refer to measures for reducing the risk of microorganism transmission from both recognized and unrecognized sources of infection.
What are standard precautions?
When performing hand washing, to maintain sterility, a nurse should not turn off the faucet with these.
What are bare hands?
This adjective describes pathogens that have adapted to hostile environments in order to survive.
What is mutated?
This term refers to the position of a client who is laying flat with their face up and their arms and legs extended.
What is the supine position?
This procedure involves the withdrawal of fluid from the abdominal cavity.
What is paracentesis?
This infection control measure is typically the first used when a client enters the hospital with respiratory symptoms.
What is respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette?
A person's state of health, the type and number of microorganisms, and the characteristics of those microorganisms all influence whether or not this develops in a client.
What is infection?