Safe Use of Equipment
This is why pneumatic tourniquets are used in surgery. (2)
What is (a) to have a near-bloodless field and (b) to confine a bolus of IV regional anesthesia?
This is the number of viral particles in each mL of blood.
What is viral load?
This is what an informed consent must have to be valid. (4)
What is (a) diagnosis, (b) proposed treatment, (c) treatment alternatives, and (d) consequences of accepting/declining proposed treatment?
This defines beneficence.
What is the duty of healthcare workers to promote good for the patient and minimize harm?
These are some of the precautions to take when a laser is in use during surgery. (5)
What is (a) use eye protection (should be specific to laser wavelength and optical density), (b) laser warning signs, (c) keep door closed, (d) cover windows, and (e) have a laser time out?
This is the difference between pathogenicity and virulence.
What is pathogenicity deals with individuals who develop clinically apparent disease and virulence deals with cases that are severe or fatal?
These are the elements of the nursing process. (6)
What is (a) assessment, (b) nursing diagnosis, (c) outcome identification, (d) planning, (e) implementation, and (f) evaluation?
This defines veracity.
What is truth-telling and honesty?
This type of radiation can remove electrons from atoms/molecules in the matter it passes, can alter molecules within cells, and can cause eventual harm (i.e. cancer).
What is ionizing radiation?
A patient with airborne precautions will bypass these areas while in the periop setting.
What are holding areas?
The State Board of Nursing is responsible for these things. (5)
What are (a) establishing standards, (b) issuing licenses, (c) monitor licenses, (d) discipline licensees, and (e) accredit nursing schools?
This is defined as paid time when the employee is not working directly in a revenue-generating capacity (e.g. paid vacation).
What is non-productive time?
What is the electrical current flows through the patient's body, is received by the dispersive pad, and transfers back to the ESU generator?
The ANA Code of Ethics provides this for nurses.
What is creates the ethical standard for the profession, provides a guide for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision making, and makes explicit the primary goals and obligations of the nursing profession?
This defines respondent superior.
What is employers are responsible for employee actions when (a) the nurse acted within the scope of practice, (b) the allegations occurred during the nurse's employment, (c) the nurse's actions were in the employer's best interest?
This is what the Safe Medical Device Act of 1990 mandates all facilities must report.
What is a user facility must report all incidents resulting from defective medical devices or user that cause or contribute to the death, serious injury, or serious illness of a patient to the FDA and the manufacturer?
These are the six components within the chain of infection.
What is (a) susceptible host, (b) portal of entry, (c) mode of transmission, (d) infectious agent, (e) reservoir, and (f) portal of exit?
This is the difference between primary and secondary nursing malpractice.
What is primary malpractice is typically related to bedside skills and secondary malpractice involves shared responsibilities at the time of the event?
This explains the difference between assault and battery.
What is assault is an unlawful threat to harm another physically and battery is actually carrying out said bodily harm?