Medication
Also known as brand or proprietary name.
Trade
Is a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement
Friction
Health Care Associated Infections from microorganisms outside the individual
Exogenous
Before the actual loss or death occurs, especially in situations of prolonged or predicted loss
Anticipatory grief
The application of one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.
Ethnocentrism
Unintended, undesirable, often unpredictable
Adverse effect
Secretions block a bronchiole or a bronchus; and the alveoli collapses as the existing air is absorbed, producing hypoventilation.
Atelectasis
For patients known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by respiratory droplets that are generated by a patient who is coughing, sneezing, or talking
Droplet precautions
A type of disenfranchised grief, occurs when the lost person is physically present but is not psychologically available, as in cases of severe dementia or severe brain injury
Ambiguous loss
Your overall opinion of yourself, including your beliefs about your abilities, your personal worth, and your value
Self-esteem
Angle of injection for ID meds
5-15 degrees
The foot is permanently fixed in plantar flexion. Unable to lift the toes off the ground and is at risk for stumbling and falling.
Foot drop
Infection control measures to prevent the spread of germs through direct or indirect contact with a patient.
Contact precautions
You are caring for a patient who is depressed because the only child has gone away to college. The nurse will assess this type of depression as:
Maturational loss
Interprofessional care plans that identify patient problems, key interventions, and expected outcomes within an established time frame
Critical pathways
What are the rights of medication administration?
dose, person, route, drug, time, documentation
An impairment of the skin that results from prolonged ischemia (decreased blood supply) in tissues.
Pressure ulcer
A set of infection control measures designed to prevent the spread of airborne diseases, which are transmitted through tiny particles in the air that can be inhaled by others.
Airborne precautions
Stages of death and dying
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
The use of medication, such as antipsychotics or benzodiazepines, to control a patient's behavior or movement when the drug is not medically necessary to treat a condition
Chemical restraints
The use of multiple medications (typically five or more) by a single patient at the same time
Polypharmacy
Patient teaching for incentive spirometer
10 times every hour while awake. Inhale
Implemented to protect immunocompromised patients from acquiring infections from healthcare workers, visitors, or the environment.
Protective isolation
Death rattle
a gurgling, crackling, or wet snoring noise, officially called terminal secretions, typically does not cause pain or distress to the unconscious or deeply asleep individual.
The three domains of learning
Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor