Nursing Foundations
The central framework of nursing that involves assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is the nursing process?
Delegating a stable client’s vital signs to a UAP is an example of this leadership role.
What is delegation?”
The ethical principle of “do no harm.”
“What is nonmaleficence?”
Actively listening to a patient’s concerns is an example of this key nursing skill.
What is therapeutic communication?
The most common site for measuring pulse in adults
What is the radial pulse?
The type of prevention that includes immunizations and health promotion.
What is primary prevention?
A nurse who uses a participative style that encourages staff input is demonstrating this type of leadership.
What is democratic leadership?
A nurse provides truthful information about a patient’s prognosis. This demonstrates which principle?
What is veracity?
A nurse who adjusts care for a client’s cultural dietary restrictions is demonstrating this professional concept.
What is cultural competence?
Before giving digoxin, the nurse should assess this vital sign.
What is the apical pulse?
In Maslow’s hierarchy, this need must be met before safety or belonging.
What are physiologic needs?
The professional nursing organization that develops the Scope and Standards of Practice.
What is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
A nurse fails to reposition a bedridden patient, resulting in pressure injury. This is an example of what legal issue?
What is negligence?
he act of providing fair treatment and equal access to healthcare resources.
What is equity?
The type of precaution used for a patient with tuberculosis.
What are airborne precautions?
Evidence-based practice combines clinical expertise, patient preferences, and this.
What is research evidence?
When a nurse accepts delegated tasks from a charge nurse, who remains legally accountable for the outcome?
What is the delegating nurse?
The type of consent that is valid only if the patient is fully informed, competent, and not coerced, typically used for very invasive procedures like surgery.
What is informed consent?
The model of care that emphasizes partnership between the nurse and the patient in decision-making.
What is patient-centered care?
The safety intervention for preventing patient falls in the hospital.
What is fall risk precautions? (hourly rounding, bed alarm, bed low, call light in reach)
The nurse advocates for safe staffing ratios and participates in shared governance. This reflects which professional role?
“What is advocacy?”
The nurse characteristic that means acting in alignment with values, honesty, and accountability.
What is integrity?
A nurse caring for a patient who refuses a treatment honors which ethical principle?
What is autonomy?
Connecting a patient with limited resources who cannot afford medications to a community health program is an example of this aspect of equitable care
What is addressing social determinants of health
Hypertension is defined as blood pressure consistently above this threshold.
What is 130/80 mmHg?