Anatomy
This is another name for your fingers.
What are phalanges?
Intravenous
What is I.V.?
The prefix means without or lacking.
What is a-? For example, anorexic means without or lacking an appetite.
This is an acronym that stands for assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
What is ADPIE?
On average, a nurse walks this distance in a 12 hour shft.
What is 4 to 5 miles? The average person only walks 2.5 miles per day.
You would tarsals and metatarsals where?
Where is your foot?
As needed.
What is PRN?
The meaning of the suffix -algia.
What is pertaining to pain? For example, arthralgia refers to joint pain.
These/This are based on the assessment and diagnosis.
What is/are outcomes and planning? The nurse sets measurable and achievable short- and long-range goals
As the founder of modern nursing, she founded the first secular nursing school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Anatomy breaks the human abdomen down into segments called....
What are quadrants?
I.M.
What is intramuscular?
This root word means cancer.
What is carcin-? For example, carcinoma is a type of cellular cancer such as basal cell carcinoma.
This is the systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze data about a client that includes not only physiological data, but also psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and life-style factors as well.
What assessment? For example, a nurse’s assessment of a hospitalized patient in pain includes not only the physical causes and manifestations of pain, but the patient’s response—an inability to get out of bed, refusal to eat, withdrawal from family members, anger directed at hospital staff, fear, or request for more pain medication (ANA, n.d.).
This former first lady volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
These are the main components of the skeletal system.
What are bones, cartilage, joints and ligaments? There are 206 bones in the adult skeleton: 80 in the axial skeleton and 126 in the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton supports body weight over the legs; it protects the brain, spinal cord, sense organs and soft tissue of the chest cavity. The appendicular skeleton supports and moves the axial skeleton by providing support and positioning of the arms and legs. Cartilage is a connective tissue found in many joints, it is not as rigid as bone but is stiffer and less fl exible than muscle. Ligaments connect bone to bone while tendons connect muscle to bone (Rogers & Scott, n.d.).
ADL
What is activity of daily living?
This suffix means the surgical removal of....
What is -ectomy? For example, splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen.
This is the nurse’s clinical judgment about the client’s response to actual or potential health conditions or needs.
What is diagnosis? The diagnosis reflects not only that the patient is in pain, but that the pain has caused other problems such as anxiety, poor nutrition, and conflict within the family, or has the potential to cause complications—for example, respiratory infection is a potential hazard to an immobilized patient. The diagnosis is the basis for the nurse’s care plan (ANA, n.d.).
She became the first African American woman to become a nurse in the United States.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney? She graduated in 1879 and became a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduated Nurses in 1908. She was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall in 1976. In 1993, Mahoney was officially inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
When you are drinking alcohol (ETOH), you inhibiting which hormone?
What is the antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
N/V/D
What is nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
This is the lack of oxygen or excess of carbon dioxide in the body that results in unconsciousness.
What is asphyxia?
These are the last two steps of the nursing process.
What are implementation and evaluation?
Implementation
Nursing care is implemented according to the care plan, so continuity of care for the patient during hospitalization and in preparation for discharge needs to be assured. Care is documented in the patient’s record(ANA, n.d.).
Evaluation
Both the patient’s status and the effectiveness of the nursing care must be continuously evaluated, and the care plan modified as needed (ANA, n.d.).
This is patterned after a nun’s habit to keep the hair neatly in place.
What is the nurse cap? Although this clothing item has long been phased out as it is known to carry pathogens, some countries still use this as part of the female nurses’ outfit.