Oxygenation and Perfusion
A device used to encourage deep breathing and lung expansion, helping prevent atelectasis.
What is an Incentive Spirometer?
Leading cause of death in adolescents 10-19 years old.
What are Unintentional Injuries?
Uses facial expressions to help patients, especially children or those with communication difficulties, indicate their pain level.
What is Wong-Baker Faces Scale?
Focuses on supporting patients' connection to greater meaning beyond physical health.
What is spirituality?
A complication of surgery that can cause redness, swelling, warmth, pain, or fever at the surgical site.
What is an infection?
A type of respiratory support that is used when patients needing controlled oxygen delivery, especially COPD. Provides a fixed concentration of FiO2 of 24-60%.
What is a Venturi Mask?
A common safety concern for hospitalized patients especially the elderly, mobility or cognitive impairments, and sensory deficits.
What are falls?
Methods like repositioning, relaxation, and cognitive-behavioral exercises that help reduce pain perception effectively.
What is non-pharmacologic?
concerns related to meaning, purpose, and hope, especially during times of illness or crisis.
What is spiritual distress?
The specific perioperative phase where the nurses assess medical history, allergies, medications, and psychological readiness to ensure patient safety.
What is preoperative phase?
Gradual increases and decreases in respirations with periods of apnea. Often seen in end-of-life situations.
What is Cheyne-Stokes?
A preventable event that can cause patient harm, including adverse drug events, allergic reactions, toxicity, or even death
What are medication errors?
The process by which the nervous system senses and responds to harmful stimuli, such as heat, pressure, or tissue damage. Includes transduction, transmission, perception, and modulation.
What is nociception?
The belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Provide graduated compression, promoting venous return, and prevention of venous distention in order to reduce DVTs or PEs.
What are antiembolism stockings?
Uses physical techniques, such as vibration or postural drainage, to mobilize and clear mucus from the lungs, especially in patients with thick secretions or impaired cough.
What is chest physiotherapy?
Requires frequent reassessment and monitoring for signs of distress or injury. Documentation must include rationale, type, time applied/removed, patient condition, and care provided.
What are restraints?
Indicators to assess the client’s pain by asking questions about the characteristics of the pain including duration, intensity, relieving factors.
What is subjective data?
Ensuring all meals for Orthodox Jewish patients are kosher, avoiding mixing dairy and meat, and checking for gelatin or animal-derived ingredients in medications.
What are dietary considerations?
Allows the patient to be comfortable and able to follow commands, but not experience pain or anxiety.
What is conscious sedation?
An acute or chronic clinical state where a person has difficulty breathing or is unable to get enough oxygen. It may result from conditions like asthma, pneumonia, heart failure, or airway obstruction.
What is Respiratory Distress?
Structured exercises designed to prepare nursing staff and healthcare organizations for emergency situations—such as natural disasters, mass casualty incidents, infectious disease outbreaks, or facility evacuations.
What are disaster drills?
Used to enhance the effect of opioids by reducing pain and anxiety. Include antidepressants or anticonvulsants.
What are adjuvant analgesics?
Listen actively and empathetically.
Document preferences and communicate them to the care team.
Collaborate with chaplains or spiritual care providers for complex needs.
Maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when discussing spiritual matters.
What are best practices for nursing?
Purposeful, goal-directed interaction that supports emotional and psychological well-being. Reduces anxiety, enhances patient satisfaction, improves education adherence.
What is therapeutic communication?