QSEN & Healthcare Systems
This federal health insurance program is designated primarily for adults aged 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
The state law that regulates nursing practice, defines licensure requirements, and sets nursing roles is called this.
What is the Nurse Practice Act (NPA)?
This standardized risk assessment scale evaluates sensory perception, moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, and friction/shear.
What is the Braden Scale?
This is the single most effective measure a nurse can take to break the chain of infection and prevent the spread of pathogens.
What is hand hygiene?
If a medication error occurs on the nursing unit, this is the very first action the nurse must take.
What is assess the patient?
This QSEN competency is directly demonstrated when a nurse verifies a patient’s identity using two distinct identifiers before a med pass.
What is Safety?
The five rights of this process include the right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction, and right supervision.
What is Delegation?
This position—lying flat on the abdomen or stomach—is completely opposite to the supine position.
What is Prone?
A patient with an active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection requires a negative pressure isolation room and this specific piece of PPE.
What is an N95 respirator?
This loop diuretic removes excess fluid from the body but carries a high risk of causing hypokalemia.
What is Furosemide?
This government program varies by state and provides medical assistance based on limited income and financial resources.
What is Medicaid?
Restraining an alert, competent patient who is demanding to leave the facility against medical advice constitutes this intentional tort.
What is False Imprisonment?
This is the softening and breakdown of skin caused by prolonged exposure to moisture, such as a soiled brief.
What is Maceration?
Intact skin with localized, non-blanchable redness over a bony prominence indicates this stage of pressure injury.
What is a Stage 1 pressure injury?
Before administering this narcotic analgesic, the nurse must hold the dose and notify the provider if the respiratory rate is less than 12 breaths per minute.
What is Hydrocodone?
Factors like lack of transportation access, housing instability, low income, and poor health literacy are collectively known as these.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
If a nurse administers an ordered medication to a patient who has explicitly and competently refused it, the nurse can be held legally liable for this intentional tort.
What is battery?
To minimize the risk of aspiration, an unconscious patient receiving oral care must be placed in this position.
What is a side-lying (lateral) position with the head turned to the side?
This specific pathogen requires mandatory handwashing with soap and water because alcohol-based sanitizers cannot destroy its spores.
What is Clostridium difficile (C. diff)?
Before administering this cardiac glycoside, the nurse must assess the apical pulse for 60 seconds and hold the dose if it is below 60 bpm.
What is Digoxin?
Integrating the best current clinical research with nursing expertise and patient values describes this QSEN competency.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and FA Davis, a nurse must verify these "Five Rights" before handing off a task to an assistive personnel.
What are the Five Rights of Delegation? (Right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction/communication, and right supervision/evaluation).
To prevent skin breakdown and the formation of pressure injuries, a bedbound patient should be repositioned at a minimum of this frequency.
What is every 2 hours?
This critical surgical emergency involves the complete separation of wound layers along with the visible protrusion of internal organs.
What is an Evisceration?
Patients starting a new prescription for this oral antidiabetic medication should be taught to take it with meals to reduce common GI upset.
What is Metformin?