Leadership and Management
This type of leader believe in input from their subordinates when making decisions.
What is is a democratic leader?
What is the cellular immune response?
This the most accurate way to assess a patient's pain level
What is self reporting pain level?
When levels of this is high outside in the air, patients should stay indoors.
What is air pollution?
Animal products should be limited when on this type of diet.
What is a cardiac diet?
This type of leader allows subordinates to have a lot of autonomy and is usually good friends with most of the staff.
What is a laze-faire leader?
This immune response is mediated by the B cells in response to antigens.
What is the humoral response?
This acronym provides nurses with 8 prompts to assess a patient's pain level thoroughly.
What is SOCRATES?
Site, Onset, Characteristics, Radiation, Associations, Time course, Exacerbating or relieving factors, Severity
This is an important topic of safety for the elderly and anyone with impaired mobility.
What are falls/fall risks?
What is a diabetic diet?
This type of leader believes that people are motivated by rewards and punishment. They usually exert control over employees.
What is an autocratic leader?
Macrophages and neutrophils will engulf and ingest pathogens that are foreign to the body.
What is the phagocytic immune response?
This pain scale uses observations to determine pain levels in children less than 1 year of age.
What is the Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS).
Cars, gas stoves, generators, and heating systems are all produce this odorless, colorless by product that can lead to poisoning.
What is carbon monoxide?
This type of diet is very restrictive and requires patients to limit potassium, sodium, protein, and phosphorus in their diets.
What is a renal diet?
This type of leader is usually very impersonal and relies on policy, procedure, and established rules to make decisions.
What is a bureaucratic leader?
When assessing pain in a patient who does not speak the same language as the nurse, what is the best tool to help collect the assessment data?
What is a translator or translating device?
This is a priority intervention anytime there as been an intentional or accidental poisoning.
What is calling the Poison Control Center?
This type of altered diet may be needed in patients with difficulty chewing and swallowing.
What is a mechanical soft diet?
This is a principle that states a nurse must know what their nurse practice act states. Nurses must know the scope of practice for nurses in their state before assigning tasks to others.
What is the first principle of delegation.
Diseases needing this type of isolation are spread through respiratory particles but do not remain aerosolized in the air.
What is droplet isolation.
This the best method to try 1st in assessing pain in patients-Even if they may have difficulty speaking.
What is asking the the patient to self report?
These are a safety intervention that should be used as a last resort or when needing to protect life saving medical equipment from being removed unintentionally.
What are restraints?
Commercially prepared chocolate milk would be considered this type of consistency for people needing thickened liquids.
What is nectar thick?