Healthcare Delivery & Economics
Long-term care facilities
Assisted living facilities
Memory care facilities
Independent living facilities
What are examples of Residential Care Facilities?
To threaten a patient with harm or to show intent to touch him or her without permission.
What is assault?
Using skillful reasoning and logical thought to determine the merits of a belief or action.
What is critical thinking skill?
Right: Medication, Dose, Route, Patient, Indication, Date & Time, Documentation.
What are the 7 rights of medication administration?
Normal, Hypoactive, Hyperactive, Borborygmi
What are bowel sounds?
Shortly after admission
When does a nurse start discharge planning?
First Intention, Second Intention, Third Intention
What are the types of wound closures for healing?
An interdisciplinary program of palliative care and support services that addresses the physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of terminally ill patients and their families.
What is Hospice?
Intentional and wrongful physical contact without consent that causes injury or offensive touching.
What is battery?
A decision making framework used by all nurses to determine the needs of their patients and to decide how to care for them.
What is the nursing process?
Verify the medication, dose, route, patient, indication, date, and time as you remove the medication from pyxis.
Verify the medication, dose, and route against the MAR Prior to placing it in the medication cup.
Verify at the patient bedside.
What are the safety checks of medication administration?
Test performed to determine the presence of occult blood.
What is the guaiac test?
"Leaving against medical advice"
What is AMA?
A channel or tunnel that develops between two cavities or between an infected cavity and the surface of the skin.
What is a sinus tract?
The federal government's health insurance program for people older than 65 years.
What is Medicare?
Deals with claims of injury or harm due to someone else's actions.
Ex. malpractice, negligence, false imprisonment
What is tort law?
A documented plan for giving patient care and includes the health-care provider's orders, nursing diagnoses, and nursing orders.
What is a care plan?
Sublingual route, buccal route,
What are oral routes of medication administration/
Apples, unpeeled; Corn, Cabbage, Carrots, Broccoli
Beans, Blueberries, Raisins, Prunes, Sunflower seeds, whole-grain cereals
What are high fiber foods?
Fear, Anxiety, Loss of control, and Loss of Identity
What are common reactions to admission?
Involve full-thickness tissue loss but are impossible to accurately stage due to the wound bed being obscured by eschar or excessive slough.
What is an unstageable injury?
A federal-state program in which the federal government helps states pay for the health care of those with an income below the poverty level as well as certain other individuals.
What is Medicaid?
Unusual occurrence reports or variance reports.
Not recorded in pt's chart, factual & object, without impressions, assumptions, or conclusions.
What is incident reports?
Subjective and objective findings.
What is assessment?
Sterile (Aseptic) technique is required and the bag of solution must be changed every 24 hours.
What is Parenteral nutrition?
Milk and molasses must be heated together to mix well, and then must be cooled to body temperature before administration.
What is a milk and molasses enema?
Obtaining a physician's order, notifying the business office, reconciling the client's medications, assisting the client's to gather personal belongings and valuables, teaching, notifying housekeeping
What is the discharge process?
What are the staging pressure injuries?
Living Will
Durable Power of Attorney
Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Order (DNAR)
What are End-of-Life Documentation?
Classifications of illnesses and diseases are used to determine the amount of money paid by Medicare to the hospital for a care of a patient with that particular illness or disease.
What are diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)?
A formulation of nursing diagnoses through an analysis of the assessment information that you have gathered.
What is a diagnosis?
Date & time of the order, name of medication, dosage of medication, frequency for taking the mediation, route of administration, patient's name, specific reason for administrating the medication, signature of the prescriber.
What all medication orders must have?
Works by distending the colon and by irritating the walls of the colon, which further increases peristalsis.
What is a Soapsuds enema?
Applying identifications bands; assisting the patient to change into a hospital gown or pajamas; orienting the patient and family to the environment; taking an inventory of clothing, personal items, and valuables.
What is the admission process?
Sacrum, buttocks, greater trochanters, elbows, heels, ankles, occiput and scapulae.
What are common sites for development of pressure injuries?
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
What are the Kubler-Ross's Rive Stages of Grief in Death and Dying?
A label or statement for a problem that a patient is experiencing as a result of his or her medical diagnoses.
What is a nursing diagnoses?
The process of determining priorities and what nursing actions should be performed to help resolve or manage each patient problem.
What is planning?
______ effects are mild and expected, where as _______effects are more severe and harmful.
What are side effects and adverse effect?
Sims
What position to place patient in for administration of an enema?
The categorization of a group of people by a distinctive trait, such as the line of genealogy or ancestry, race, or nationality.
What is ethnicity?
It occurs when there is a partial or complete separation of the outer layers of a wound.
What is dehiscence?