Who's the Nurse?
Not Judge Judy...
So Sad
I Have a Pill for That
Make Me Better Please
100
LPNs may provide care in a client's home, some of this care may be high-tech, but all care is supervised by this member of the healthcare team.
What is an RN?
100
The term for injury to a person that gives rise to a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the injury.
What is harm?
100
The nurse should help the client make one of these if the client has no one to trust to make healthcare decisions on his behalf if he were to become incapacitated.
What is Living Will?
100
The principles of safe medication administration.
What is the 6 Rights?
100
The right to refuse treatment/meds, the right to informed consent, the right to review the medical record and the right to privacy.
What is patient rights?
200
Clients in a long-term care setting are referred to as this.
What is residents?
200
A breach in the client nurse relationship that leads to harm to the client, can result in the nurse being charged with this.
What is malpractice?
200
A client with terminal liver cancer states "this cannot be happening to me". This is an example of what stage of grief according to Kubler-Ross.
What is denial?
200
It is OK to administer a cough syrup prepared ahead of time by the night shift nurse as long as he labeled the container with client name, drug, dose, date and time.
What is FALSE?
200
You are providing care to a child at a well clinic and provide the mother with information about car seat safety. This is an example of what type of preventive care?
What is primary prevention?
300
The nurse is concerned about a client admitted with pneumonia who suddenly develops s/s of UTI because she knows that the UTI is this type of preventable infection.
What is health care-associated infection?
300
A nursing ethics term meaning that all clients have the same right to nursing interventions.
What is Justice?
300
This type of grief occurs before an actual loss and helps a client and family move to a healthier mental state.
What is anticipatory grief?
300
An antidepression medication works on the central nervous system to increase availability of dopamine. This is an example of what type of medication action.
What is systemic action?
300
Going over information more than once and restating main points can increase the effectiveness of client teaching and are recognized as what teaching technique?
What is repetition?
400
Receiving report, making assignments, assessing all clients, assisting with medication administration and conferring with team members are all performed by this member of the healthcare team.
What is a team leader?
400
A newly hired nurse should look here for the best way to check on use of abbreviations in the medical record.
What is organizational policy or published list of approved abbreviations?
400
This type of grief interferes with quality of life for a very long time and can stunt an individual's development.
What is dysfunctional grief?
400
A physician orders the wrong dose of PCN for a pediatric client. The nurse discovers the error during a double check computation of safe dose range. Since the nurse discovered the error, he is legally responsible for it, not the pharmacist or physician, since they did not knowingly order/prepare a wrong dose.
What is FALSE?
400
These risk factors can interfere with health promotion. (name three)
What is age, genetics and lifestyle?
500
The purpose of licensing laws for LPNs.
What is to protect the public?
500
All of the following skills are important in documenting in the medical record. Select all that apply: .spelling .prose .legibility .accuracy .consiceness
What is all but prose?
500
This term refers to how a client sees and feels about his or her body and affects the client's self concept.
What is body image?
500
Some factors that influence the effectiveness of client teaching. (name three)
What is cognition, pain, environment?
500
Some common barriers to learning.
What is stress, pain, anxiety?
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