General Nursing Knowledge
What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
The nurse is aware that the best way to prevent postoperative wound infection in the surgical client is to:
Wash her hands for 2 minutes before care
The best way to prevent postoperative wound infection is hand washing. Up to 60% of SSI can be prevented.
Which historical nursing figure is known as the lady with the lamp and is credited with improving hospital hygiene and sanitation and promoting hand washing during/after the Crimean war?
Who is Florence Nightengale?
Area 51 is located in this state
What is Nevada
This president wrote the emancipation proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Among the following components thorough pain assessment, which is the most significant?
What is Intensity?
Intensity is the major indicative of severity of pain and it is important for the evaluation of the treatment. Severity of pain may include the intensity graded by the patient or the impact pain has on function.
What is the most common complication of a myocardial infarction?
Arrhythmias
Arrhythmia, caused by oxygen deprivation to the myocardium, is the most common complication of an MI.
This nurse played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill
Who is Dorothea Dix
The second planet from the sun
This country gave the USA the statue of liberty as a gift
What is France
A client has Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). The nurse should teach the client that after every meal, the client should:
What is Rest in a sitting position?
Gravity speeds up digestion and prevents reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus. Instruct to remain in an upright position at least 2 hours after meals;
Which of the following situations is an example of negligence?
The nurse checks the distal pulses of a patient’s legs two hours after they have returned from a cardiac catheterization.
The nurse should check distal pulses immediately after cardiac catheterization
This nurse devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women
Who is Margaret Sanger
This hit 80s film featured four main characters known as Spengler, Venkman, Stantz, and Zeddemore
What is Ghost Busters
This person wrote "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day (Sonnet 18)
Who is William Shakespeare
After a long leg cast is removed, the male client should:
Elevate the leg when sitting for long periods
Elevation helps control edema
The nurse is caring for a patient with pneumonia using ________ precautions.
Droplet
a British nurse, working in German-occupied Belgium during the First World War. She helped hundreds of British, French and Belgian soldiers escape the Germans and was arrested, tried and executed in 1915
Who is Edith Cavell
Where was the lord of the rings trilogy filmed?
Where is New Zealand?
The words “Here's Johnny” originally came from the late night talk show “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” These words were later used in a movie adaptation of a Stephen King's 1977 horror novel.
What is The Shining?
Nurse Hazel teaches the client with angina about common expected side effects of nitroglycerin including:
What is Headache
Because of its widespread vasodilating effects, nitroglycerin often produces side effects such as headache, hypotension, and dizziness. Headaches can be severe, throbbing, and persistent and may occur immediately after use.
After cardiac catheterization, the nurse instructs the patient to lie in which position.
Supine
The patient needs to be on bedrest, on their back, to avoid moving their leg and possibly restarting bleeding in the femoral artery.
The first Native American RN
Who is Susie Walking Bear?
Which Star Wars characters appear in Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost ark?
Who are R2D2 and C3P0
Mary Shelley, the woman often credited as the author of the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein, kept which of her husband's organs after he died.
What is the heart?