Nursing Abbreviations
gtts
What is drops?
The normal range is 60-100.
What is the heart rate?
Constant or recurring; lasts longer than 6 months.
What is chronic pain?
10 times every hour, and hold the breath for 3-5 seconds during each breath.
How often should the nurse encourage the patient to use the incentive spirometer?
Skin can be painful but is intact.
What is a stage 1 pressure ulcer?
BSC
What is bedside commode?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
What are Kubler-Ross's five stages of death and dying?
Nerve pain that arises from the somatosensory system, described as intense, burinng, and shooting.
What is neuropathic pain?
Consists of percussion of the chest, vibration, and postural drainage.
What is chest physiotherapy?
Partial or total separation of the wound layers due to excessive stress on a surgical wound.
What is dehisence?
bid
What is twice daily?
Physiological, safety and security, love and belonging.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Examples of opioid medications
What are morphine, hydromorphone, and fentanyl?
Low pH and bicarb levels.
What is metabolic acidosis?
Closed system of drainage that uses suction from a bulb.
What is a Jackson-Pratt drain?
AC & HS
What is before meals and bedtime?
Questions to provoke discussion.
What are open-ended questions?
Small amounts of pain med at a basal rate, or a small bolus of med when the patient pushes a button.
What is a PCA pump?l
The flow of air inside or outside of the alveoli.
What is ventilation?
Wound in which you can see bone, muscles, tendons, and/or ligaments.
What is a stage 4 pressure ulcer?
CPM
What is continuous passive motion?
A specialized nurse trained in assessing, treating and collecting forensic evidence on victims of assault.
What is a SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner)?
The four ethical principles related to pain management.
What are beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice?
The flow of blood driven by the cardiopulmonary system into the alveolar capillaries.
What is perfusion?
Technique used to decrease the presence of microorganisms.
What is aseptic technique?