Communication & Ethics
This federal law mandates that healthcare professionals protect a patient’s private health information.
What is HIPAA?
This is the minimum amount of time you should scrub your hands with soap during handwashing.
What is 20 seconds?
This directional term means "toward the front" of the body.
What is Anterior?
This is the outermost, waterproof layer of the skin.
What is the Epidermis?
This muscle contracts to allow the chest cavity to expand during inhalation.
What is the Diaphragm?
This term describes listening to a patient without interrupting and repeating back what they said to ensure understanding.
What is Active Listening?
This vital sign measures the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries.
What is Blood Pressure?
This regional term refers to the neck area.
What is Cervical?
This connective tissue connects muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon?
This organ stores bile and concentrates it for digestion.
What is the Gallbladder?
Using complex medical words with a patient who doesn't understand them is an example of this type of communication barrier.
What is a Language/Jargon Barrier?
A heart rate greater than 100 bpm is known by this medical term.
What is Tachycardia?
This anatomical plane divides the body into equal left and right halves.
What is the Midsagittal (or Sagittal) Plane?
This type of muscle tissue is involuntary, striated, and found only in the heart.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
In the female reproductive system, fertilization usually occurs in these tubes.
What are the Fallopian Tubes?
This ethical principle refers to a patient's right to make their own decisions about their healthcare.
What is Autonomy?
This is the correct order for donning (putting on) PPE: Gown, Mask, then this.
What are Gloves?
This regional term refers to the front of the elbow, a common site for drawing blood.
What is Antecubital?
This part of the neuron receives signals from other cells.
What is a Dendrite?
This functional unit of the kidney is responsible for filtering blood.
What is the Nephron?
A nurse acting with "Beneficence" is acting in a way that does this.
What is "Doing Good" (or acting in the best interest of the patient)?
If a patient drinks 6 oz of juice, ____ is the total intake in milliliters (mL).
$500: What is 180 mL? (6 oz x 30 mL/oz)
Using directional terms, the wrist is described as being ________ to the elbow.
What is Distal?
A burn that presents with pain, redness, and fluid-filled blisters is classified as this degree.
What is Second-Degree?
This blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is an Artery (or the Aorta)?