Mobility and sensory perception
When turning your patient you notice a red patch of skin on their coccyx, when you touch the spot it is not blanchable. You know this patient has developed what related to their immobility?
a pressure injury/bedsore
Name the levels of prevention
Primary, secondary, tertiary
When choosing an answer on the NCLEX, you recognize how to select the answer with the most critical patient based on the ABCs, what does this stand for?
Airway, breathing, circulation
These are established to prevent patient harm nationwide...
National patient safety goals
What age does hearing loss begin typically?
After 30
Name a nursing intervention to increase mobility:
free response...
As part of completing a health history, the nurse should ask about the patient's use of prescriptions, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
True
Generating personalized care plans is a part of which step in the nursing process…
Planning
Mandatory reporting with appropriate punishment is a part of creating a culture of safety
False
Health is not merely the…
Absence of disease
Your post-op patient who has been less mobile over the last few days has spiked a fever and developed a sense of doom. They may be experiencing what?
A pulmonary embolism
___________ increase the chances that someone will experience a disease
Risk factors
The final decision the nurse makes is an example of…
Clinical judgment
A patient on your unit has developed a pressure injury where you can see all the way to the bone. This is considered a ____ event
Sentinel
What happens to our perception of pain as we age?
Decreased sensitivity
Name the four key steps after a patient fall:
Assessment, notify, neuro checks and vital signs, documentation.
Provide the definition for health behavior…
Any positive and/or negative actions, taken by persons, that affect their state of well-being and level of function
Knowing what occurred as a result of nursing actions is a good basis for…
Reflection
Which accrediting body reviews adverse events that occur in hospitals?
The Joint Commission
A normal finding related to hearing in your 80-year-old patient may be what? (1 word medical term)
Presbycusis
Three key factors in the management of osteoporosis?
Calcium, vitamin D, weight bearing activities
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where…
People are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age
What separates nurses from techs and other assistive personnel?
Clinical decision making
A process used by health professionals to learn how and why errors occurred…
A root cause analysis