Hygiene
Patient Positioning
Safety
Mobility/Immobility
Sleep and Rest
100

The proper technique for perineal care for females. 

What is clean front to back?

100

This position is used for enema administration.

What is Sims left lateral?

100

This technique is used when securing a restraint.

What is a quick release slip knot?

100

Passive and active _______ are used to keep joints flexible and contractures from forming. 

What is range of motion?

100

Frequent urination during the night, disrupts sleep and the sleep cycle, often leading to excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue.

What is nocturia?

200

When bathing or giving a bed bath, it is usually done in a head to toe fashion from....

What is "clean to dirty?"

200

This position increases comfort, improves ventilation, and increases the patient’s opportunity to socialize or relax. It is also the preferred positin for placement of NG tube.

What is Fowler's position? or Semi-Fowler's?

200

This safety measure should always be taken before moving your patient (up in bed, from bed to chair etc).

What is make sure the wheels are locked?

200

The nurse finds decreased peristalsis on physical exam of a patient that has been on prolonged bedrest. 

What is a complication of immobility?

200

This substance speeds the onset of sleep, reduces REM sleep and awakens the person during the night and causes difficulty returning to sleep.

What is alcohol?

300

This substance is often added to a patient’s bath water to reduce the risk for health care–associated infections (HAIs).

What is chlorohexidine? 

300

This condition is caused from prolonged plantar flexion that causes damage to the peroneal nerve that can lead to permanent plantar flexion.

What is foot drop?

300

The most effective way to break the chain of infection.

What is hand hygiene?

300

This condition causes an increased pulse rate, a decreased pulse pressure and a drop in blood pressure when changing positions.

What is orthostatic hypotension?

300

Nursing interventions that are appropriate to promote sleep for hospitalized patients.

What are:

plan to take VS before the patient goes to sleep, have the patient follow at home bedtime schedules, close the door to the patients’ room at bedtime.

400

The proper way to dress a patient with an injury to one extremity or an extremity that is immobilized.

What is always dress the affected side first?

400

Bed position where the whole bed “slanted” with the feet higher than the head, that promotes postural drainage.

What is Trendelenburg?

400

This can be prevented by assessing the weight of the patient you will lift and determining the assistance you will need

What is prevention of health care worker work-related musculoskeletal injuries?


400

Can have strong deconditioning effects on the human body, in particular on bones, muscles, and the cardiovascular system. 

What is physical inactivity?

400

Neurohormone produced in the brain that helps control circadian rhythms and promote sleep. 

What is melatonin?

500

Patients with this disease state often require nail care from a specialist to reduce the risk of tissue injury and infection. Defer care other than washing the feet in these cases until patient has been evaluated.

What is diabetes (or peripheral vascular disease)?

500

This technique is used for patients with spinal cord injuries or who are recovering from neck, back, or spinal surgery need to keep the spinal column in straight alignment to prevent further injury.

What is log roll?

500

Health care workers protect themselves from contact with infectious material, sharps injury, and/or exposure to communicable diseases by applying knowledge of the infectious process and using appropriate….

What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?

500

This condition is the 3rd leading vascular diagnosis after heart attack and stroke affecting between 300,000 and 600,000 Americans each year. It is particularly common in patients with reduced mobility.

What is VTE (venous thromboembolism)

How do we as nurses prevent VTE? early ambulation, administration of anticoagulants, applying intermittent SCDs or compression stockings, and applying foot pumps.

500

Examples of nursing diagnoses for patients with sleep problems.


What is:

• Adequate Sleep

• Fatigue

• Impaired Sleep

• Impaired Alertness

• Sleep Deprivation?

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