Vitals and Basic Care
The normal pulse range.
What is 60-100 bpm?
A written summary or appraisal of overall health.
What is a general survey?
The most powerful form of communication.
This can be done to benefit the cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems.
What is exercise?
The point at which a person feels pain.
What is pain threshold?
The difference between apical and radial pulse.
What is pulse deficit?
The type of communication a nurse should be using when talking to a patient.
What is therapeutic communication?
The types of questions that should be used for a patient.
What is open-ended questions?
This should be used by nurses in order to maintain a nurses body.
What is proper body mechanics?
Pain is this type of data.
Pulse site located at the top of the foot.
What is dorsalis pedis?
The order in which a RN should evaluate an area. (Except for the abdomen)
What is inspect, palpate, percuss, and auscultate?
A nurse finds a patient unresponsive on the floor, what type of assessment should be preformed?
What is an emergency assessment?
This stage of sleep occurs when the pts. eyes are moving and body is twitching.
What is REM?
This type of injury occurs when a patient slides down in bed.
What is shearing?
Temperature does not return to normal and fluctuates a few degrees up and down.
What is a remittent fever?
Only registered nurses and providers are able to do this upon admission.
What is an initial health assessment?
The key to productive communication.
What is listening attentively?
An illness that affects the pts breathing while sleeping.
What is sleep apnea?
This phase of the inflammatory process occurs when new tissue is built to fill the wound space through the action of fibroblasts.
What is the proliferation phase?
Where the apical pulse can be heard.
Where is between the 5th and 6th intercostal and midclavicular line?
A nurse should do these 3 things before assessing a patient.
What is hand hygiene, identify the patient, and provide comfort and privacy?
An effective way of making sure a patient has understood the information they have been given.
What is teach-back.
What is narcolepsy?
What is serous, sanguineous, serosanguinous, and purulent drainage?