Vitals signs
Physical signs that indicate an individual is alive such as heart beat, breathing rate, temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation.
What are vital signs?
Beneficial, natural and harmful.
What are the different types of microbes?
A creative technique involving three people who agree to work together to solve communication problems.
What is a communication triad?
Law made by administrative agencies appointed by the government is called ____________
Administrative law
Current enters one part of the hand and exits through another part of the hand.
A measurement of the balance between heat lost and heat produced by the body.
What is temperature?
A type of airborne infection that mainly affects the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
The “why me?” stage of the grieving process; patients make unreasonable demands or unjust criticism of everyone participating in their care; they blame family, friends, and hospital staff for their condition.
What is stage 2 or anger stage of the Kübler-Ross stages of grief?
The transfer of responsibility for a task from one person to another is called ____________
Delegation
The danger from electrical shock depends on ________________
The amount, the duration and the path
The cycle of breathing in and out.
What is respiration?
A strain of staph that affects patients in nursing homes, in intensive care units and on extended hospital stays.
What is MRSA?
Talking too fast, using medical vocabulary the patient does not understand or talking down to patients are examples of _______________
Communication barriers
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are accredited by _____________
The joint commission
With modern NDT equipment, the patient is “isolated” from the electric current usually by ______________
Optical isolation
The rhythmic dilation of an artery that results from beating of the heart.
What is a pulse?
A normal type of flora that can cause an infection if it enters the blood, urine or a wound and is resistant to normal hand-washing.
What is VRSA?
To obtain as much as information about patients as possible by asking open-ended questions that cannot be answered with a simple yes-or-no response is to _____________
Gather information
An organization's rules or guidelines for the behavior of its members is called ________
Code of conduct
If the insulation is worn off the power cord where the power cord enters the instrument, the hot wire could be in direct contact with the metal case of the instrument causing a _____________
Shock
A measurement of the pressure that the blood exerts on the walls of the arteries during the various stages of heart activity.
What is blood pressure?
A spore forming bacterium that releases toxins into the bowel, is resistant to disinfectant and can spread through casual contact.
What is Clostridium difficile?
Judgmental responses, arguing, interrupting, changing the subject, distractions are all examples that will ________________
Stop or cut off communications
The meaning of the term Res ipsa loquitur is ________
The thing that speaks for itself
A term used to describe the flow of current that is traveling through an electric circuit which is not within a normal range.
What is fault current or short circuit current?