Before the Procedure
This legal step ensures the patient understands risks, benefits, and what will happen before a procedure.
What is informed consent?
This part of a urine sample is collected after starting to void but before finishing.
What is a midstream specimen?
Best time to collect a sputum sample for pneumonia diagnosis.
What is early morning before meals?
After a lumbar puncture, the patient is kept in this position to prevent headache.
What is supine?
Bright red blood in stool usually indicates bleeding from this area.
What is the lower GI tract?
A nurse reviews what a patient already knows about a procedure to determine this.
What is the level of teaching needed?
To reduce embarrassment, the nurse should encourage patients to do this when possible.
What is collect their own specimen?
After voiding, catheterization for residual urine must occur within this timeframe.
What is within 10 minutes?
Following a liver biopsy, the patient is positioned on this side initially.
What is the right side?
An ECG detects problems with this function of the heart.
What is electrical conduction?
Before giving contrast dye, the nurse must always assess for this specific allergy.
What is iodine (or shellfish) allergy?
A wound culture should NEVER be taken from this.
What is old drainage?
A stool specimen for ova and parasites must be handled in this way.
What is sent immediately to the lab?
After a barium enema, stool will appear this color temporarily.
What is white?
If an occult blood test turns this color, it is positive.
What is blue?
A patient asks many questions before a test. This nursing action BEST helps reduce anxiety.
What is providing clear answers and accurate information?
When collecting blood glucose via fingerstick, this location is least painful.
What is the side of the finger?
When collecting urine from a Foley port, the clamp stays in place for this long.
What is 30 minutes?
After a bronchoscopy, patients are kept NPO for approximately this long.
What is 2 hours?
Before a chest x-ray, the patient must remove these items.
What are metal objects?
A patient is scheduled for a bronchoscopy. What MUST occur BEFORE premedication is given?
What is obtaining informed consent?
To obtain an anaerobic specimen from deep in the body, the nurse uses this tool.
What is a sterile syringe?
After bronchoscopy, the nurse waits for this reflex before allowing food or fluids.
What is the gag reflex?
After a diagnostic test using contrast, what should the nurse encourage?
What is increased fluid intake?
Why are two blood cultures drawn from different sites?
What is to confirm true infection vs contamination?