Agencies
This agency makes recommendations about precautions for infection control.
What is CDC?
The location on the chest at which one should auscultate a pulse.
What is the fifth intercostal space?
The name of precautions that are used to prevent the spread of blood borne pathogens.
What is standard precautions?
The first tube drawn for a venipuncture.
What is blood culture?
You should collect patients output this often.
What is every eight hours?
This agency sets the laboratory standards.
What is CLIA?
The order of electrical flow in the heart.
What is SA node, AV node, bundle of HIS, bundle branches, and Purkinje fibers?
This cleaning technique is used for procedures that need to be sanitary, but not sterile.
What is medical asepsis/clean technique?
The minimum amount of urine needed for a urinalysis.
What is 30 ml?
This should be done if the patient has shortness of breath.
What is notify the nurse?
This agency regulates food, drugs, and cosmetics.
What is the FDA?
What is 50mm/sec?
This is the precaution for the flu.
What is droplet precaution?
This blood sample has to be kept on ice.
What is barrier cream?
This agency requires hospitals to have material safety data sheets for all chemicals.
What is the OSHA?
An case of ST elevation, indicating a myocardial infarction, can be given this elevation.
What is STEMI?
What is N95 respirator?
The green tube tests for this specimen.
What is bilirubin?
With a urinary catheter, the bag should be secured on this.
What is an immovable part of the bed, like the frame?
This organization handles long-term care patients rights.
What is OBRA?
This condition is characterized by a mirrored heart.
What is dextrocardia?
This is the first step to do when you get a needle stick.
What is wash with soap and water.
A peripheral blood smear should cover this amount of the slide, and be done on this side of the slide.
What is 30 degrees and the frosted side?
To clean a urinary catheter, the patient should be placed in thin position.
What is lithotomy position?