Nursing Foundation
A violation of civil law, involving a wrong against an individual or property.
What is tort?
Precautions used when a patient has a communicable illness that can spread through contact, droplets or air.
What is transmission-based precautions?
Heart rate of 120 beats per minute is called what?
What is tachycardia?
The position you should place an unconscious patient in for oral care.
What is side-lying?
The nurse provides care for a patient following a cardiac catheterization. Which bed position is most appropriate for this type of patient?
What is reverse Trendelenburg?
This vitamin help prevent fetal neural tube defects?
What is folic acid?
What is 8 hours?
What is the name for written documents that provide guidance for making medical decisions in the event a person becomes incapacitated?
What is an advance directive?
Of all possible nursing interventions to break the chain of infection, which is the most effective?
What is hand hygiene/washing?
What is the first sound heard through the stethoscope when assessing BP called?
What is systolic pressure?
A nurse bathing a patient notices scratches covering the patient's calf. The nurse knows that this is called what?
What is excoriation?
What is the correct bed elevation for semi-Fowler's?
What is 30-45 degrees?
A patient being treated for a large wound should be told to pay special attention to which component of the food label?
What is protein?
This skin color is noted, and the nurse determines to remove heat therapy.
What is red?
What is non-maleficence?
What patient diagnosis requires a negative air pressure room?
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
Squeezing a client's nailbed and counting the number of seconds until color returns to the nailbed. What is the nurse assessing in this client?
What is capillary refill?
A nurse notices purple splotchiness in a patient's legs. The nurse knows this occurs when circulation slows and is called?
What is mottling?
When standing a patient, slowly change positions to diminish or eliminate the symptoms of what?
What is orthostatic/postural hypotension?
Which type of fat should the patient be encouraged to limit for someone with high cholesterol?
What is trans fat?
Pain scale appropriate for a nonverbal pediatric patient.
What is FLACC?
The conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health outcomes.
What is social determinants of health?
A nurse caring for a client who requires isolation has just finished a procedure. Which PPE should be removed last?
What is mask?
The nurse taking an apical pulse should place the stethoscope at which anatomical location?
What is the left midclavicular, 5th intercoastal space?
The nurse is giving a complete bed bath. Which should be done to maintain the client's privacy?
A. close curtains around client's bed
B. use a blanket to cover the client
C. close the door of the client's room
D. ask family members to leave the room
What is A. close curtains around the client's bed?
Nerves may be compressed between the bones and the firm surface of the bed, resulting in impaired nerve function called?
What is compression neuropathy?
Diet used for those patients with hypertension, heart failure, or kidney or liver failure and for those who require help to prevent or correct fluid retention
What is sodium-restricted diet?
What is vasoconstriction?
Educating a group of adolescent girls on the importance of regular physical exercise is what level of prevention?
What is primary?
The nurse should wear an N95 respirator mask for which transmissed-based precaution?
What is airborne precautions?
A nurse is caring for a client with a fever of 103.2°F. The client’s wife asks, “Why does his body get so hot like that?” You should respond with?
What is a fever is the body's way of creating an environment that is harmful to germs?
Client is unable to do little to nothing for self. Which type of care is appropriate for ADLs?
What is total care?
What is the purpose of applying antiembolism stockings?
What is improve circulation, keep blood from pooling, or prevent blood clots?
A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) via an infusion pump. When collecting data about the client receiving this therapy, which of the following factors should the nurse monitor?
A. client's oral intake
B. IV insertion site
C. Manifestations of hypoglycemia
D. Height of IV pole
What is B. IV insertion site?
What is liver disease?