Vital Signs
This is the normal range for an adult heart rate.
What is 60-100 BPM?
NKDA
What is No Known Drug Allergies?
Nursing is the most _______ profession.
What is Trusted?
A specific instrument that nurses use to listen to respiratory, cardiac, and abdominal sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the range for normal adult respirations.
What is 12-20/minute?
AC & HS
What is before meals and at bedtime?
This person revolutionized nursing as an acceptable profession for women in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the attire you would see a nurse wearing if the patient is on standard precautions.
What are gloves?
True or False: 147/93 is considered a normal adult blood pressure.
What is false?
NSAID
What is a Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug?
The organization that Clara Barton founded which is responsible for many rescue efforts and blood donations.
What is the American Red Cross?
This is the best way to prevent spread of an infection.
What is proper hand hygiene?
These 2 vital signs would be the priority to check if the patient is cyanotic (blue-tinted skin).
What are respirations and oxygen saturation?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The first African American Professional Nurse.
Who is Mary Mahoney?
Non-skid socks, bed alarm, call light within reach, purposeful rounding, room close to the nurses station.
What are fall risk precautions?
This vital sign would best indicate the manifestation of an infection.
What is an elevated temperature?
NCLEX - RN
What is the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses?
This is "The Lady with the Lamp".
Who is Florence Nightingale?
These are the steps of the nursing process.
What is Assessment, Diagnose, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation?