Pharmacology
This route of medication administration provides the fastest systemic effect.
What is Intravenous?
This is the most common vital sign measured first during a client assessment.
What is temperature?
This is the single most effective way to prevent infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This is the pulse site most commonly used during CPR.
What is the carotid pulse?
Male nurse character portrayed by Ben Stiller. Hysterical but luckless guy who has to deal with Robert DeNirro's sarcastic and insulting jokes about male Nurses.
Who is Gaylord "Greg " Focker ?
This lab test monitors therapeutic levels of warfarin.
What is INR?
This is the earliest indicator of clinical deterioration a client may display.
What is Heart Rate?
What is 20 seconds?
This is the correct compression rate during CPR.
What is 100 to 120 compressions per minute?
A drug addicted nurse who struggles to find balance between the demands of her frenetic job at a NY City hospital and an array of personal dramas
Who is Nurse Jackie-Edie Falco?
This antidote is used for opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone or Narcan?
This is the name of the device used to measure blood pressure.
What is a Sphygmomanometer?
PPE stands for this in healthcare settings.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
This is the compression depth for a child.
What is about 2 inches (1/3 the depth of the chest)?
Nurses have tough soul challenging jobs that necessitate a certain amount of gruffness or black humor, but they also can have a lot of fun or at least look at things in away that puts a smile on their faces or others, such is the case of this no-nonsense wife of a resident, a head nurse, who is constantly reminding us not to take any "$#!7" or not to sweat the small stuff
Who is Carla Espinosa from Scrubs? Judy Reyes
This medication requires tapering to prevent adrenal insufficiency.
What is Prednisone?
This is the normal respiratory rate range for a newborn.
What is 30 to 60 breaths per minute?
This is the proper order for donning your PPE.
What is gown, mask, goggles, and gloves?
This is the technique used to seal the bag mask device to a victim's face.
What is the E-C Clamp technique?
One of the first nursing characters many still think of when they think of nurses portrayed on TV. She stands out for being a portrayal of a nurse who did her job under extreme circumstances (Korean war) while remaining both a woman and a human being.
Who is Major Margaret Houlihan (Hotlips)? Loretta Swit
This electrolyte imbalance is the most associated with cardiac arrhythmias.
What is Potassium?
The length of time you would wait to repeat measuring a person's blood pressure when you couldn't hear it at first.
What is two to three minutes?
Where are the major sites for Health Care Associated Infections?
What are surgical or traumatic wounds, urinary and respiratory tracts, and the blood stream?
In the context of CPR and cardiac emergencies, CCF stands for this.
What is Chest Compression Fraction?
Scorned by co-workers for some tough decisions as head nurse and loved by audiences for her strong personality and on again off again romance with George Clooney
Who is ER Nurse Carol Hathaway? Julianna Marguiles