Role of the nurse
This role of the nurse includes working with clients, the family and the health care team to ensure the client receives needed services.
What is a Care Manager?
These serve as the current laws and regulations governing nursing practice in every state
What are the Nurse Practice Acts?
The order of steps to take in the event of a fire.
What is RACE?
This is the law that protects a patients privacy.
What is HIPAA?
What are droplet?
This role of the nurse includes providing knowledgeable, compassionate care to promote health and address illness
What is a Care Provider
The Nurse Practice Act identifies specific nursing titles and their roles. These titles include: RN, LPN, LVN and...
Who are APRN (or APN)?
This is the procedure you should do if someone grabs their throat and cannot talk.
What is an abdominal thrust (FKA Heimlich Maneuver)
Law that states EDs cannot turn clients away for being under or uninsured.
What is EMTALA?
This reduces the risk of transmission between patients and when a patient has an infection.
What is frequent handwashing?
This role of a nurse can be either formal or informal. In a formal role, the nurse develops nursing knowledge by conducting research and publishing results. In an informal role, nurses use evidenced-based practice in the delivery of care.
What is a Researcher?
To practice nursing the state of NC, you must be licensed by which Board of Nursing?
Who is North Carolina?
This is a way for two nurses to move a patient (who is unable to assist) up in bed
What is a friction reducing device (AKA) draw sheet?
The type of consent that is not expressed verbally or in writing.
What is implied consent?
1. Emptying a urostomy bag
2. Providing oral care
3. Passing oral medications to patients who can self administer.
What is passing medications to patients who can self administer?
This role of a nurse is multifaceted. The nurse is responsible for client education, teaching student nurses. Or the nurse may be a clinical nurse educator, or a member of faculty.
What is an Educator?
This is the name of the test you must pass to demonstrate you are safe to practice as an entry-level nurse.
What is raising the height of the bed?
Legal documents which state a client's wishes related to healthcare.
What are Advanced Directives?
This is the lab that is drawn to identify if there is an infection within the body.
What is WBC or WBC with differential?
This role can be either formal or informal. The nurse may be an assigned leader or be working to improve the role of healthcare and nursing.
What is a Leader?
A set of skills that all nurses should be competent in performing.
What are the scopes and standards of nursing practice?
When transferring a patient, the proper posture is ...
When posting about clients on social media, nurses may violate the clients_________
What is confidentiality?
This is the type of precautions you may see for those who are undergoing cancer treatments.
What is protective environment, or protective precautions. Also known as neutropenic precautions.