Time's Ticking
ranking tasks from most to least important
What is prioritization?
PCTs, unit secretaries, clinical support staff, float staff
Who can a nurse delegate tasks to?
OR
Who are unlicensed personnel?
The meaning of SBAR
What is situation, background, assessment, recommendation
Can tell you who is on call at any time
Who is the operator?
Author of Scope and Standards of Practice (not abbreviated)
Who is the American Nurses Association?
ABCDE
What is a strategy for prioritization?
Who is the nurse delegating the task?
Two roles that can take report from ED or procedural areas
Who is the nurse or charge nurse?
You should document after notifying the provider of what lab values?
What are critical values?
"Who" the Nurse Scope and Standards apply to
Who are RNs and APRNs (actively licensed)?
The practice of minimizing trips into patient rooms to improve efficiency and minimize interruptions of rest
What is clustering care?
Policy outlining duties and scope of clinical staff
What is Addendum CC?
The amount of time in which you should attempt to take report from other floors
What is 15 minutes?
If you know it will be longer than that please tell the nurse when they call. If it will be longer than 30, let your charge nurse know you need them to take report
Not approved method of communicating PHI
What is texting?
Also, social media
Laws specific to nurses in Missouri
What is the Missouri Nurse Practice Act?
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Three things that regulate or impact delegation
What are
Nurse Practice Acts
Medicare Laws
Organizational Policies
Education and Experience?
Three persons who should be involved in bedside report
Who are the off-going nurse, on-coming nurse, patient?
*when at all possible, include patients in report
Three things you should know before calling physician (multiple choices)
What is
Recent assessment
Recent vitals
Why you are calling/what you need an answer to
Current orders
Current labs
Patient background including history, hospital stay, and vitals/labs
Other doctors on the care team
Outlines the duties all RNs and APRNs are expected to perform competently
What is the ANA Standards of Professional Nursing Practice?
Two time management strategies (multiple choices)
What are
Arriving to shift a little early
Anticipate needs
Cluster Care
Organizing day
Using a "brain" or chart for the day
Delegating
Asking for help
Charting in real time
Take a break-turn your brain off for 10 minutes
The five Rights
Was are the
person
task
circumstance
instruction/direction
supervision/evaluation
?
Name three things you can briefly check during bedside report (multiple choices)
Neuro status
IV site
IV fluid rate/medications
Surgical site
Safety Checks (bed, call light, alarm)
Patient needs (to be addressed during initial rounds)
other LDAs (foley, drain)
Physician to Physician communication/contact necessary for this
What is a consult/transfer to another service/hospital?
The two groups of standards that make up Standards of Professional Nursing Practice
What are "Standards of Practice" and "Standards of Professional Performance"