The stage of the nursing process when the nurse is gathering information.
What is assessment?
200
Type of care where you clean from the inner to outer canthus with a wet, warm cloth, cotton ball, or compress.
What is eye care?
200
Examples of safety precautions the elderly can take to prevent falls in their homes.
What are handrails, clear clutter, non-skid mats, keep commonly-used items within close reach...
200
Infections acquired in hospitals.
What are nosocomial infections?
200
This test evaluates the functioning of the six extraocular muscles of the eyes.
What is the cardinal position/field of gaze?
300
Nurses use a variety of assessment techniques to gather data, but this technique would be the first/best option to gather data.
What is interviewing the client?
300
Type of assessment for lesions, wounds, color, temperature, turgor, cleanliness, moisture, or dryness.
What is skin assessment?
300
After assessing the patient and finding out that they have a weakened range of motion and fatigue easily, it would be safe to say that the nurse is in this phase of the nursing process.
What is the diagnosis stage?
300
Transmission of large particles that move from one place to another.
What is droplet contact transmission?
300
Correct patient positioning for palpating the abdomen.
What is with knees bent?
400
"Tell me how you are feeling" or "describe how your wife has been helping you" are types of these questions.
What are open-ended questions?
400
Your patient has a decreased LOC so you place him in this position for oral care.
What is the side-lying position?
400
In the toddler, another name for the development of self-awareness and conflict over closeness vs. exploration occur.
What is separation anxiety?
400
This type of precaution is used for a client who has been diagnosed with Rubella.
What is droplet precaution?
400
Can be full, bounding, irregular, weak, absent.
What are peripheral pulses?
500
Signs and symptoms in a patient that can be seen, felt, heard, or smelled.
What is objective data?
500
Your client has COPD and is declining to get up today--he states "it's just too hard." This is the type of bath and position in which you'd put the patient.
What is a partial bed bath and High-Fowler's position?
500
Parents of adolescents may experience this when their child becomes chronically ill.
What is caregiver role strain?
500
The type of mask that is used to protect people from airborne diseases.