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Before entering a patient’s room, nurses must always do this.
What is Hand Hygiene?
By working as an ESN, students gain experience that contributes to a smoother transition to this role.
What is a full-time Registered Nurse (RN)?
These professionals are responsible for coordinating patient care, administering treatments, and providing education to patients and their families.
Who are registered nurses (RNs)?
This is the first step in the nursing process, which involves gathering information about a patient's health status.
What is assessment?
This healthcare profession is often ranked among the most trusted professions in the world due to their role in patient care.
What is nursing?
These 7 “objectives” are done before giving any kind of medication to the patient. The “objectives” confirm patient, time (of medication), medication, dose, route, documentation, and reason.
What are the 7 rights of medication administration?
ESN’s work under the supervision of this professional.
What is a registered nurse?
This is a major challenge faced by new graduate nurses, which ESNs help mitigate through their real-world exposure to clinical practice.
What is transition shock?
Nurses use this digital tool to manage patient record.
hat is an electronic medical/health record?
This nurse is celebrated as the founder of modern day nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This activity involves checking patient health metrics like blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate—skills that form the foundation for independent care in the RN role.
What are vital signs?
These are four responsibilities for a ESN.
What are Providing Basic Care, Supporting Healthcare Team, Learning and Observing and Documentation?
In addition to improved clinical judgment, ESNs help prepare for this in the RN role.
What is increased responsibility?
Nurses must follow this law/regulation to protect patient privacy.
What is HIPAA?
This is generally the most common workplace injury reported by nurses.
What is back pain?
Student nurses are often required to balance coursework with this type of experience, which allows them to practice patient care in real clinical settings.
What is clinical placement or rotation?
ESN’s may feel this when attempting to prove competency in a clinical setting.
What is pressure to perform?
Registered nurses often act as a bridge between patients and this group of professionals.
What are doctors/physicians?
After collecting data nurses use this to identify the problem.
What is nursing diagnosis?
This annual event honours nurses worldwide on May 12 (Florence Nightingale’s birthday).
What is International Nurses Day?
These are lab values you should check/watch for a patient with kidney failure.
What are Creatinine and Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)?
These factors are enhanced by the role of an ESN, ultimately contributing to a more stable healthcare workforce.
What are job satisfaction, retention, and lower turnover rates?
This clinical tool is used by registered nurses to assess the risk of pressure sore development in patients.
What is the Braden Scale?
The diagnostic statement includes this component, which identifies the underlying cause or contributing factor to the patient’s health problem.
What is etiology?
This essential tool for assessment, invented by René Laennec, was originally made of wood.
What is a stethoscope?