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Doing these things will help the nurse reduce the stress of the hospitalized patient.
Answer questions, be available, be honest, provide competent care
Using this side of your most treasured assessment equipment will allow for clear auscultation of adult airways.
Diaphragm of the stethoscope
To legally apply an SRD the nurse must:
Have a doctor's order
This is the easiest way to break the chain of infection.
Hand hygiene
This is the most likely injury nurses will face.
Lower back strain
A newly hired nurse may practice under:
A doctor, an RN, Nurse Practitioner, Dentist
A weak pule has these characteristics.
Easily found but stops with light pressure
These characteristics are assessed when a patient has an SRD applied.
neurovascular check, ROM, skin integrity
What lab value explains which bacteris is growing a your patient's tissues?
Culture
The term used for low gurgling lung sounds heard denoting mucous, pus, or thicken secretions in the airways.
Rhonchi/sonorous wheeze
Patient's should be offered _____ prior to movement or noxious intervention.
Pain medication
Terms used for symptoms that appear and then resolve in a cycled pattern over time.
Intermittent signs/symptoms
These criteria must be met before walking away from a patient's bedside.
Bed in low position, call light with patient, side rails up, patient needs met, patient comfortable.
What one might call red, bloody drainage noted on a dressing.
Sanguineous drainage
What term is given to the skin assessment where the nurse lightly palpates a red area of skin which does not change color during palpation
Nonblanchable erythema
An well written outcome statement will tell the nurse:
What the patient will do in time-framed, measurable words.
High-pitched musical sounds heard during both inspiration and expiration are termed this:
Wheezes
The nurse will have the patient sign an _______ form prior to leaving the hospital without a discharge order.
AMA (against medical advice)
A lab range of 5,000-10,000 cells per microliter of blood represents this lab value.
White Blood Cell Count
The student nurse is gait belt ambulating his patient with 2 hands on the belt, walking slightly behind the patient on the strong side. What is his nursing instructor's response to this?
Walk on the weak side, this is the side that the patient will fall toward.
This historic figure's concept map allows medical personnel to triage patients.
Who is Maslow
Our patient should be placed in the ______ position for enema administration.
Left Sims
Safe transfer requires:
Clear directions to the patient, non-skid socks or shoes on the patient, transfer chair placed on the patient's strong side, dangling the patient prior to transfer, gait belt
John's Covid-19 regime does not include an antibiotic and his wife wishes to sue for malpractice. Why won't a medically knowledgeable lawyer take this case?
Virus' do not respond to antibiotics, they must run there course.
Nurse Jay has no order to change a dressing that has drainage on the outside. What should Jay do?
Circle the drainage on the dressing to include date and time, and document the measurements of the drainage in the patient chart.