Blood Cultures
You should scrub the top of the blood culture bottle for this long.
What is 30 seconds?
These four things about the drainage should be assessed per policy.
What are the color, character, consistency, and amount of drainage?
These two things have to match when administering a pain medication.
What is the patient pain scale and the pain range for the medication?
This animal is the primary source of natural heparin.
What is a pig?
Nurses have this long to report and document provider notification of a Sepsis OPA.
What is 1 hour?
You cannot draw a blood culture from this.
What is an existing IV site?
Avoid these by securing the tubing to the edge of the patient's bed at the level of the patient.
What are dependent loops?
This is used to validate IV compatibility with any infusion.
What is Lexidrug?
This lab result is used to change the dosage to remain in a therapeutic range.
What is PTT?
The Sepsis Risk Score is considered this type of result.
What is a critical result?
It is this number of bottles from this number of different sites.
What is 2?
Do this if a chest tube becomes accidently dislodged.
What is apply a sterile dressing and tape on three sides?
This is required when wasting a controlled substance.
What is a witness?
These two entries for Heparin appear on the MAR when it is first ordered.
What is Initial and Continuous?
This option should never be used by a bedside nurse on the Sepsis OPA.
What is 'non-direct patient care'?
Specimens should always be labelled at this location.
What is at the bedside?
This is an indication of an air leak in the system.
What is constant bubbling in the water-seal chamber?
This device is used to allow the patient to self administer controlled substances safely.
What is a PCA pump?
When transferring a patient with heparin infusing, the sending nurse and receiving nurse must complete this.
What is a dual handoff?
This is why early recognition and aggressive treatment are important.
What is 'to decrease mortality'?
Each blood culture bottle should get this amount of blood.
What is 8-10 mL?
Name the four parts of the acronym 'DOPE'.
What is displacement, obstruction, pneumothorax, and equipment failure?
When transferring a patient with a controlled substance, the sending nurse and receiving nurse must complete this.
What is a dual handoff?
Name at least two complications associated with IV heparin administration.
What are chills, elevated temperature, excessive bleeding and bruising, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, urticaria?
This must be chosen when documenting the critical result type .
What is 'Sepsis Risk Score'?