Infection control
According to the CDC, what is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)?
What is hand hygiene (or hand washing)?
A localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence, as a result of pressure or pressure in combination with shear.
What is a pressure injury (or pressure ulcer)?
Adverse events that are clearly identifiable, measurable, serious, and largely preventable in a healthcare setting are known as these.
What are Never Events (or Serious Reportable Events)?
The process of acquiring specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes to ensure delivery of culturally congruent care.
What is cultural competence?
Immunizations, health education programs, and physical fitness activities are examples of this level of disease prevention.
What is primary prevention?
The minimum amount of time in seconds recommended for washing hands with soap and water.
What is 20 seconds?
Clear, watery fluid drainage from a wound is referred to by this medical term.
What is serous exudate?
Performing surgery on the wrong body part or wrong patient falls under this category of preventable safety errors.
What is a Never Event (or wrong-site surgery)?
When caring for a non-English speaking patient, the nurse should utilize this trained professional rather than family members.
What is a certified medical interpreter?
Screening activities, such as mammograms or blood pressure checks aimed at early detection, fall under this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Known as the founder of modern nursing, her Environmental Theory emphasized cleanliness, fresh air, light, and sanitation to promote healing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Thick, yellow, green, or brown drainage that often indicates infection.
What is purulent exudate?
The structured communication framework using the acronym SBAR stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and this final step.
What is Recommendation?
The ability to understand, appreciate, and work effectively with people from cultures other than your own, beginning with an examination of your own personal biases and values.
What is cultural awareness (or cultural sensitivity)?
Rehabilitation programs for individuals recovering from a stroke or cardiac event represent this level of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
The removal of all microorganisms, including spores, from an object or surface using steam under pressure or chemical sterilants.
What is sterilization?
Wound healing where wound edges are closed (approximated) with sutures or staples, minimizing scar formation.
What is primary intention?
This federal organization does not reimburse hospitals for costs associated with treating conditions resulting from hospital-acquired Never Events.
What is CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)?
Applying a fixed, oversimplified belief or generalized image to all members of a particular cultural or ethnic group without regarding individual differences
What is stereotyping?
Her Self-Care Deficit Theory posits that nursing care is required when a patient is unable to fulfill their own basic self-care needs.
Who is Dorothea Orem?
The chain of infection requires a pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, and this type of person who lacks immunity to the pathogen.
What is a susceptible host?
The total separation of wound layers, exposing underlying tissues or organs, which constitutes a surgical emergency.
What is evisceration?
The practice of confirming a patient's identity using two identifiers before administering medications or treatments is part of these safety goals.
What are National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs)?
Her Culture Care Theory emphasizes providing culturally congruent care by understanding a patient's cultural background.
Who is Madeleine Leininger?
The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, according to the WHO.
What is the definition of health?