Leadership
This type of leader allows nurses to do whatever they want.
What is Laissez Faire?
What is Rescue, Alarm, Contain and Evacuate or Extinguish?
1.Collect subjective and objective patient data
2.Evaluate if your interventions were effective
3. Starts a blood transfusion on a patient with a low hemoglobin
What is #3?
These medications can cause a rare but serious side effect know as rhabdomyolysis.
What are statins?
The nurse is admitting a patient to her rehab unit who had a stroke a week ago. Her main safety concerns include these. (2 of the 3)
Aspiration,
Falls,
skin breakdown,
malnutrition.
A manager who says she will help when the unit is busy and then does it the next time the nurses need help is said to be this.
What is Authentic?
According to the NPSG, the correct way to identify a patient
What is name and date of birth verbally, armband, chart?
The professional way to handle upset family may include this.
What is therapeutic communication, reassure them, educate?
The potassium sparing diuretic for week 2.
What is hydralazine?
Three signs that a patient has aspirated and may have pneumonia include these.
Coughing, difficulty breathing, low oxygen, temperature(fever), increased white blood count, crackles in lungs, fatigue.
A nurse that notices the UAP chastising the patient for spilling his drink again. What is an appropriate step to take?
Will Accept
-Send UAP for a break and reassure patient
-report to charge person
-care for patient personally and reassure them
OF A group of nursing students This one needs further education.
Student 1 Says "I notified the provider for a patient with an INR of 5"
Student 2 states "I watched a time-out in surgery, this is an important safety measure.
Student 3 states "I was able to verify my confused patient by a family member and the room number."
Who is student 3?
The new nurse know her patient with Polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria likely has this disease.
What is diabetes?
This medication has multiple uses, anti-pyretic, anti-platelet and it can treat mild pain. It is also part of the "MONA " acronym for myocardial infarctions.
What is aspirin?
The nurse goes in to feed her patient lunch and notes that he has some of his breakfast in his cheek and his oxygen saturation is only 89. She realizes he has this condition which make swallowing difficult.
What is dysphagia?
You have a patient having an anaphylactic allergic reaction on your floor. What is the best leadership type for this emergency?
What is Autocratic?
When an LPN delegates over the counter eye drops he/she states she is available if the UAP needs help she is doing this right.
What is the right supervision?
A new nurse realizes when someone offers her a gift for caring for them she must do this.
What is politely decline?
This medication is given Subcutaneously in order to prevent clot, typically after a major medical situation.
What is lovenox (enoxaparin)?
For a patient at risk for a stroke, the nurse may educate that these risk factors are controllable. (name 3)
What are Smoking, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and activity level?
Using great leadership, a nurse might do this if he/she notices many coworkers are having difficulty with a new piece of equipment on the unit.
What is give an in-service? or
What is show the others how to use, or call someone who is comfortable to demonstrate?
In the BEFAST protocol, the nurse realizes, if appropriate, the clot busting medication must be started within this amount of time from last normal observation.
What is 3 hours?
The new nurse remembers these things she can not delegate to the UAP. (name 2)
What are •Assessments and judgement calls
•Prescription medications
•Unstable patients (i.e., fresh from surgery)and
•Patient education?
These are two acceptable types of normal insulin that can be used in a sliding scale administration.
What are Humulin-R or Novalog?