Dosage Calculations
The number of drops in a ML is called this.
What is a drop factor?
This is the purpose of heath care records.
To properly communicate information to healthcare team members, provide legal documentation, and assist in reimbursement to care organization for care provided.
This is a type of care that can assist a family member, if they are unable to perform the health interventions for their loved one at home.
What is home care?
This is described by MDH to enhance vulnerabilities of human trafficking.
What is societal impacts?
This is an issue that can develop with an IV, for a patient, and presents with pain and local skin redness at site of insertion.
What is infiltration?
The easiest method to solve for the number of gtt/min is this formula.
What is volume (mL) x drop factor/time x gtt/min?
This type of nursing documentation in the health record provides discrete, patient-centered information regarding objective physical assessment data.
What is a flowsheet?
This psychological symptom may develop for family members and the patient, at the end of life.
What is anxiety on caring for the patient's treatment at home?
A key component of the safe harbor policy, ensures youth under this age are covered by services.
What is 24 years of age or younger?
This is the amount of time blood can be transfused over.
What is 4 hours?
An IV is ordered to infuse at 100 mL/hr. The nurse has an IV infusion set with a drop factor of 15 gtt/mL. This is the flow rate.
What is 25 gtt/min?
This is based on the type and number of nursing interventions required by the patient over 24 hour period.
What is patient's acuity level?
This is described as a blended family.
What is when two people come together and bring children from previous relationship together?
This is a type of pain resulting from stimulation of the skin.
What is superficial pain?
This is programmed into a PCA pump?.
What is the continuous rate of infusion, PCA dose, PCA lockout time, and total amount delivered in an hour?
This is an important best practice for IV push medication prior to administering the medication.
What is referring to a drug manual to determine the rate of administration of the IV push medication?
This is one type of progress note,
What is narrative, PIE, Focus, or a SOAP?
These are the following key components of the SPICES assessment tool,
What is SPICES?
S-Sleep
P-Problems with Eating or Feeding
I-Incontinence
C-Confusion
E-Evidence of Falls
S-Skin Breakdown
This is a type of pain with sensations that extend from initial site of injury to another body part.
What is radiating pain?
This is the type of tubing used for blood administration.
What is filter intravenous tubing?
The provider order includes the number of what to be infused in the IV pump.
What is mL/hr?
This describes a flowsheet in an electronic health record.
Documentation of physical assessment data and routine care and organized by body system.
This is important, for nurses to assess, their own biases and attitudes, to improve this type of awareness.
What is improve our cultural awareness?
This type of pain scale is used in children, or those unable to speak, but can comprehend the scale?
What is FACES pain scale?
When inserting an intravenous catheter, it is important to start at this site of the arm_____ and move to this site of the arm_____.
What is start distally and move proximally on the arm.