Well, Well, Wellness
House, Home, and Hood
Theories of the Field
Welcome to the Floor
Potpourri Peds
Med Math Marathon
100
Name this nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan is a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States and has specific, measurable goals.
What is Healthy People (e.g., Healthy People 2030)?
100
When planning education on self-administration of insulin, the nurse includes family members because health habits are largely developed in this context.
What is the family (or household)?
100
This "Lady with the Lamp" was the first nursing theorist, studying how manipulating the environment affects patient health.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
This is considered one of the best ways for a nurse to prevent the spread of germs to patients.
What is hand hygiene (or washing hands)?
100
To ensure accurate medication dosing for children, this important measurement needs to happen.
What is weighing the child (or obtaining their current weight)?
100
A patient needs 500 mg of Tylenol. The stock medication is available in 250 mg tablets. Calculate the number of tablets the nurse will administer.
What is 2 tablets?
200
These are differences in the quality of health and availability of healthcare between different populations, often related to social, economic, and environmental disadvantages.
What are health disparities?
200
Living near a plastic factory, burning garbage regularly, and exposure to secondhand smoke are examples of these types of health risks.
What are environmental risks (or community risk factors)?
200
The process of combining the best available research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient input to provide optimal nursing care.
What is Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?
200
This model describes the five stages of skill acquisition for nurses: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert.
What is Benner's "From Novice to Expert" theory?
200
The most effective method for a nurse to evaluate a patient’s ability to perform a skill like administering tube feedings.
What is a return demonstration?
200
An order calls for Ampicillin 1 gram IV push. The vial contains Ampicillin 500 mg reconstituted in 2 mL of sterile water. Calculate the volume in milliliters the nurse will draw up.
What is 4 mL?
300
Name three social determinants of health (SDOH).
What are factors such as education, income/economic stability, neighborhood/built environment, social/community context, and healthcare access/quality?
300
The three core functions of public health, according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report.
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
300
This type of research is used to gain an understanding of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations, often focusing on the human experience as it is lived.
What is qualitative research?
300
In the nursing process (ADPIE), this step involves the nurse identifying actual or potential client responses to health conditions.
What is Diagnosis (or analyzing assessment data)?
300
Rhythmic breathing, listening to music, playing a game, and going for a jog are strategies to improve this specific type of health.
What is mental/emotional health?
300
A patient weighs 110 pounds. Calculate their weight in kilograms.
What is 50 kg?
400
A common nursing intervention that helps reduce health disparities by identifying and addressing personal biases or stereotypes that may interfere with appropriate care.
What is identifying stereotypic attitudes/implicit bias?
400
The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group, is described by this term.
What is population health?
400
A variable in a research study that is believed to affect the dependent variable; it is the one the researcher is manipulating or studying for its effect.
What is the independent variable?
400
A group responsible for ensuring that the rights of study participants are protected in any research conducted at an institution.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
400
The process of synthesizing, disseminating, and using research-generated knowledge to make an impact on or change existing nursing practice.
What is research utilization (or knowledge translation)?
400
A prescription is for an IV infusion of Normal Saline at 125 mL/hr. The IV tubing drop factor is 15 gtt/mL. Calculate the flow rate in drops per minute (gtt/min).
What is 31.25 gtt/min (or 31 gtt/min, rounded)?
500
The concept that an individual or organization can find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
What is health literacy?
500
True or False: Family structure and function do not change over time, which is a major challenge in family nursing.
What is false (family structure/function changes over time)?
500
This grand theory assumes that people are able to exert purposeful control over their environments in the pursuit of health, focusing on the nurse's role in assessing and addressing self-care deficits.
What is Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory?
500
This point in the Code of Ethics states "Nurses respect the wishes of capable persons receiving care to decline to receive information about their health conditions."
What is Provision 1 (or Autonomy)?
500
The "S" in the SMART goals acronym, often used in community health planning, stands for this word.
What is specific?
500
A patient requires a dopamine drip at 5 mcg/kg/min. The patient weighs 70 kg. The medication is supplied as 200 mg of dopamine in 250 mL of D5W. The IV pump rate in mL/hr.
What is 26.25 mL/hr?
