Safety and Communication
Equipment used with running to a fire and taking a PASS.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Systematic method for evaluating patients and individualizing nursing care.
What is the Nursing Process?
A loose dressing over a PICC line insertion site creates one of these.
What is Portal of Entry?
The key that unlocks cells and lets glucose enter.
What is insulin?
Number to call with pulseless and breathless.
What is ext. 5000?
Repetitive, negative, and critical behavior that can increase stress, decrease moral, and lead to staff turnover.
What is bullying?
Action taken to prevent deterioration of a patient.
What is "calling an RRT"?
If given too fast, this medication can make you turn red.
What is Vancomycin?
Type of diabetes that occurs when the body is resistant to the insulin made.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
What is malnutrition?
Management technique where both participants feel good about the final decision.
What is Win-Win?
A lethal arrhythmia that appears on the monitor as a chaotic, wavy line and requires rapid defibrillation.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
The appropriate skin cleanser to utilize BEFORE puncturing the skin for a blood culture.
What is ChloraPrep?
Nursing action when the blood glucose reads "high" on the glucometer.
What is obtain a blood draw for blood glucose?
The ICU resident, the ICU nurse, and the respiratory therapist.
Who are the members of the Code Team?
Hospital operator's overhead page indicating there is bad weather on the way.
What is a Code Black?
Scale used to objectively evaluate eye opening, motor, and verbal response.
What is the Glascow Coma Scale (GCS)?
Inflammatory condition that manifests with shivering or "feeling cold", tachycardia, confusion, shortness of breath, and/ or clammy skin.
What is sepsis?
The key for healthy eating when balancing carbohydrate and protein foods and vegetables.
What is portion control?
Preventing a blown vein in the elderly may require this trick.
What is not using a tourniquet?
Author of the nursing theory, Novice to Expert.
Who is Patricia Benner?
If you listen, the voices will tell you one of the greatest causes of homelessness.
What is mental illness (or schizophrenia)?
The transfer of infectious agents can be passed onto others by two methods.
What is direct and indirect transmission?
Medication given to a fasting patient when the blood sugar is less than 70 mg/ dl and the patient has IV access.
What is D50%?
Primary component that can turn metal into projectiles during a radiologic procedure?
What is the magnet (or magnetism)?