Emergency Care
Emergency Care
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing
Emergency Preparedness
Miscellaneous
100
What does PERRLA+C stand for?
PE - Pupils Equal R - Round RL - React to Light A - Accommodation C - Coordinated
100
-rrhage
What is a suffix for excessive flow?
100
The legal responsibility for one's actions or the failure to act appropriately.
What is Liability?
100
Type of disaster that pertains to hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions.
What are External disasters?
100
Prefix for tongue.
What is Gloss/o?
200
The first phase of the body's "alarm reaction" to trauma or tissue damage.
What is shock?
200
ABCDE
What is the acronym used to help you remember the order for assessment in a emergency situation?
200
Laws that define and regulate the practice of nursing.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
200
Process used to determine who will be assisted first, when and how to call for help, and how many untrained bystanders can assist.
What is triage?
200
Written instructions clients give in advance about the types of healthcare they desire should they become unable to decide for themselves.
What is an advance directive?
300
Process of sorting and classifying to determine priority of needs, and involves determining life-threatening situations and assisting those clients first.
What is triage?
300
What does AVPU stand for?
A - Alert V - responsive to Verbal stimuli P - responsive to Painful stimuli U - Unresponsive
300
Harm done to another as a result of neglecting duties, procedure or ordinary precautions.
What is Negligence?
300
Acronym used to help you remember the general order of procedures for a fire.
What is RACE? R - Rescue : Remove Clients from area A - Alarm/alert : Sound Alarm C - Confine: Contain Fire E - Extinguish Fire
300
Prefix for membrane.
What is Chorio/o?
400
Which acronym is used for the neurological assessment of an individual?
What is AVPU?
400
Four classes of a triage.
What are Emergent (immediate/ Class I), Urgent (Delayed/ Class II), Non-Urgent (Minor/ Class III), and Expectant (Dead/ Class IV)?
400
Malicious verbal statements that are false or injurious.
What is Slander?
400
Type of disaster that results in a loss of infrastructure (i.e power, drinkable water).
What are internal disasters?
400
Prefix for brain.
What is Encephal/o?
500
What does the acronym ABCDE stand for?
A - Airway B- Breathing C- Circulation and bleeding D - Disability E - Expose and examine
500
Shock due to a severe allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
500
Written statement or photograph that is false or damaging.
What is libel?
500
How often should Fall risk be assessed in an emergency situation?
Every 24 hours.
500
The rights of hospitalized individuals.
What is the Patient (Client) Bill of Rights?
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