Founder of Modern Nursing
What is Florence Nightingale.
What does the acronym SBAR stand for and why is it used?
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation. Used for intradisciplinary communication between shifts for critical patient information.
Two types of restraints.
What is chemical and physical restraints.
What is 9:00pm in military time?
2100.
Laws that define responsibilities of the nurse and “scope of practice, as well as, the range of activities and services and the qualifications for practice.”
What is the Nurse Practice Act.
Setting priorities, creating goals and expected outcomes that are patient-centered, and implementing nursing interventions that are patient specific.
what is planning
Prior to placing a patient in a protective-restraint device to protect from injury what must the nurse have done?
What is documented that other methods have been used and failed to protect the patient.
The mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.
What is Critical Thinking.
What is verbal and non-verbal communication
The federal Law that protects the health information of patients
Patient compains of feeling depressed, nauseated, having visual disturbances, fatigue, and shows facial grimacing. Differentiate SUBJECTIVE vs OBJECTIVE data.
What is SUBJECTIVE:depressed, nauseated, visual disturbances, and fatigue. OBJECTIVE: facial grimacing.
This assessment technique would be utilized when feeling for a patients pulse.
What is palpation.
Reflecting on the results of a treatment to determine whether the goal of relief has been accomplished would be this part of the nursing process
What is Evaluation.
Which 3 types of patients are at highest risk for injury from trying to get out of bed
What is elderly, confused or disoriented, and pain.
What are the components of a nursing diagnosis
NANDA approved nursing diagnosis, etiology or related factors, symptoms or defining characteristics
What are strategies to prevent falls?
Ensuring side rails are up, call light is in reach, bedside table or tray is in reach, and hourly rounding
Medication Administration Ten Rights
What is the right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, right route, right assessment, right education, right to refuse, right evaluation, and right documentation.
Kubler-Ross' 5 Stages of Grieving
What is Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.