Nursing Fundamentals
This is the most important step in infection prevention.
What is handwashing?
Nurses use this instrument to listen to heart, lung, and bowel sounds?
What is a stethoscope?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
“BP” stands for this vital sign.
What is blood pressure?
Name the floor number that all labs are in.
What is the 7th floor?
The “R” in RACE (fire safety) stands for this.
What is Rescue?
This is worn by nurses to protect hands when in contact with bodily fluids.
What are gloves?
The process by which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs.
What is diffusion?
“NPO” means this.
What is nothing by mouth?
Nursing students at SFC wear this color scrubs for clinicals.
What is navy blue?
The proper angle for inserting an intramuscular injection.
What is 90 degrees?
This device measures blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer (BP cuff)?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
“PRN” means this.
What is as needed?
Name three required pre-nursing courses needed to go into the nursing program.
The letters “RN” after a nurse’s name stand for this.
What is Registered Nurse?
This is used to measure a patient’s oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
“IV” means this.
What is intravenous?
This national exam is required for SFC nursing graduates to become RNs.
What is the NCLEX?
The five rights of medication administration are right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and this.
What is right time?
This common tool is used to check a patient’s reflexes.
What is a reflex hammer?
The bone that protects the brain.
What is the skull?
“SOB” on a chart means this.
What is shortness of breath?
This woman is the chair of nursing at SFC.
What is Mary Kate Kasler?