Nursing Math
Nursing Potpourri
Nursing Equipment
Spirituality
Cultural Respectful Care
100

You are teaching your patient's parent to give Tylenol. You need to give 15 ml of medication. You are going to tell the mother to give ______ teaspoons.

What is 3 teaspoons or 1 tablespoon?

100

This is a scale that is used to determine patients that are at risk for skin breakdown.

What is the Braden Scale?


100

You are taking vital signs and need to determine the client's oxygen level.

What is a pulse oximeter?

100

A confident belief in something for which there is no proof or evidence.

What is Faith?

100

Belief that everyone should conform to your own belief system.

What is cultural imposition?

200

How many Kg are in 99lbs?

45kg

200

The 5th vital sign.

What is pain?

200

Glove, gowns, mask, N95, hairnet, booties

What are personal protective equipment (PPE)?

200

A person who denies the existence of a higher power.

What is an atheist?

200

Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations.

What is culture?

300

10:00 a.m. in military time.

What is 01000 or 1000?

(O-ten hundred or ten hundred)

300

An event that occurs in humans in a 24-hour interval.

What is a circadian rhythm?

300

Used to assess PERRLA.

What is a pen light?

300

Gives meaning and purpose to existence, enhances life, and is life sustaining.

What is life-affirming?

300

Large group of people who are members of a larger cultural group.

What is subculture?

400

1 tsp = _______ ml

What is 5?

400

Primary source of heat in the body.

What is metabolism?

400

Used to assess cardiac, respiratory, and intestinal state.

What is a stethoscope?

400

Ingredient in life responsible for a positive outlook.

What is hope?

400

Minorities living within a dominant group lose characteristics that made them different.

What is cultural acculturation or assimilation?

500

1 oz = ____ ml

30 ml

500

List 2 symptoms that can be seen in patients with dementia. 

What are mental changes, irritability, confusion, disorientation, aggression, depression, restlessness, memory loss, falling, hallucination, paranoia, anxiety, loneliness?

500

Spell the medical term for a manual blood pressure cuff.

What is s-p-h-y-g-m-o-m-a-n-o-m-e-t-e-r (sphygmomanometer)

500

Need for meaning and purpose. Need for love and relatedness. Need for forgiveness.

What are the three spiritual needs?

500
A nurse avoids caring for an elderly patient because elderly patients care takes too long.

What is stereotyping?

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