Nursing Basics
This credential stands for someone who has passed the NCLEX and is licensed to provide patient care.
What is a Registered Nurse?
This device is used to manually check blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
This term means protecting a patient’s personal health information.
What is confidentiality?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
This term means everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthy.
What is health equity?
Name all the steps in order of the nursing process.
What is Assessment, Diagnose, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation?
This sterile technique must be used before inserting a Foley catheter.
What is aseptic or sterile technique?
This U.S. law protects patient privacy and governs health information sharing.
What is HIPAA?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
This is one example of a social determinant of health?
What is income, education, housing, or food access?
These three letters represent the top priorities in emergency situations.
What are Airway, Breathing, and Circulation (ABCs)?
This is the normal range for fasting capillary blood glucose.
What is 70 to 110 mg/dL?
This concept means a patient understands a procedure and agrees to it voluntarily.
What is informed consent?
This cranial nerve is responsible for smell.
What is Olfactory, CN I?
Name two kinds of disparities that are seen in the healthcare field.
These are the six “rights” nurses check before giving a medication.
What are right patient, drug, dose, route, time, and documentation?
This is the proper landmark for a deltoid intramuscular injection.
What are 2–3 finger widths below the acromion process?
This is what a nursing student should do after witnessing a nurse skip hand hygiene.
What is politely speaking up or reporting the incident?
This is the main function of the nephron in the kidney.
What is the filtration of blood to form urine?
Using a professional medical interpreter instead of family ensures this.
What is accurate, ethical, and private communication?
This communication method is used to structure shift reports and provider calls.
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)?
This is the first action a nurse should take if an IV site appears red, swollen, and painful.
What is stop the IV infusion?
This ethical principle means “do no harm.”
What is nonmaleficence?
The hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla during stress.
What is Epinephrine?
This is a culturally competent response when a patient refuses care based on beliefs.
What is ask about their beliefs and collaborate on a plan?