The Nursing Process
Pharmacology
Patient Safety
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100
This type of assessment data includes clients' feelings, perceptions, and descriptions of health status.
What is subjective data?
100
The suffix -olol is associated with this class of medication.
What is beta-blockers?
100
This is the term used for infections that a client acquires while receiving care in a health care setting.
What is health care associated infection (or nosocomial infection)?
100
This is a 
What is a mitten restraint?
100
This is the term for an accumulation of fluid in the tissues most often from direct trauma or impaired venous return.
What is edema?
200
Nurses feel, see, hear, smell this type of data through observation of physical assessment of the client.
What is objective data?
200
Acetaminophen is associated with toxicity of this major organ.
What is the liver?
200
This type of precaution is used when infectious agents are transmitted through direct or indirect contact with the client or the client's environment (Clostridium difficile, MRSA, VRE).
What is contact precautions?
200
This is a legal process by which a client or the client’s legally appointed designee has given written permission for a procedure or treatment.
What is informed consent?
200
This is required for any abnormal assessment findings.
What is an intervention?
300
On completion of the assessment, this must be thorough, concise and accurate.
What is documentation?
300
This stage of the drug cycle is the transmission of medications from the location of administration to the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
300
These are the three main modes of transmission.
What are contact, droplet and airborne?
300
This is the maximum volume of medication that can be given in all intramuscular injection sites except the deltoid.
What is 3 milliliters?
300
This type of diet consists of foods that are liquid at room temperature including plain ice cream and strained cereals. Some facilities include pureed vegetables.
What is a full liquid diet?
400
This step in the nursing process requires nurses to look at the data and
- Identify patterns or trends.
- Compare the data with expected standards or reference ranges.
- Arrive at conclusions to guide nursing care.
What is analysis/diagnosis?
400
- An adverse medication effect that is considered severe and can be life-threatening.
- It can be caused by an excessive dose, but it also can occur at therapeutic dose levels.
What is toxicity?
400
This is the range for the expected white blood cell count.
What is 5,000 to 10,000/mm3?
400
The site where the nurse would assess the tricuspid valve is this
What is site D?
400
This is the primary indication for ondansetron.
What is nausea/vomiting?
500
- Throughout this step in the nursing process, nurses set priorities, determine expected client outcomes, and select specific nursing interventions.
What is planning?
500
Before administering an opioid agonist like morphine, the nurse should gather these two pieces of assessment data.
What is a pain assessment and respiratory assessment?
500
The nurse would be required to notify the rapid response team for these types of events. Name at least 2.
A sudden change in vital signs.
Low oxygen saturation despite efforts to oxygenate the client.
Chest pain despite administration of nitroglycerine.
Seizure.
Medical professional has a deep concern about client's condition.
Sudden change in client's mental status.
500
This can help to prevent discomfort, contractures, pressure on tissues, and nerve and circulatory damage, and they stimulate postural reflexes and muscle tone.
What is frequent position changes?
500
The patient has a temperature of 101.8 and will receive a dose of acetaminophen. The patient's weight in kg is________________(rounded to the hundredths place).
2.39kg