Nursing Today
Infection Control
MOVE IT OR NOT
Vital Signs
Health Assessment
Talk to me & DOC
Make a Plan
Skin & Wounds
Culturit
Older Adult
Teach em
Breath
Safety
Ethical
Eats
100
These type of skills are needed in nursing
What are CRITICAL THINKING skills
100
An infection that can affect the entire body instead of just a single organ or part.
What is SYSTEMIC
100
This type of joint is the wrist
What is CONDYLOID
100
These are the medications used to reduce a fever.
What are ANTIPYRETICS
100
Another name for this
What is SNELLEN CHART
100
This is a lifelong learning process
What is COMMUNICATION
100
This is the ordering of nursing diagnoses or patient problems using notions of urgency and importance to establish a preferential order for nursing interventions.
What is PRIORITY SETTING
100
These are called
What is Montgomery Straps or Ties
100
Historical and social realities shape an individual's or group's what.
What is WORLDVIEW
100
This type of nursing requires creative approaches for maximizing the potential of older adults.
What is GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
100
Effective Educators use this.
What is POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
100
This is a collapse of the alveoli that prevents normal exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is ATELECTASIS
100
This reduces, and in some cases prevents, the transmission of disease from person to person.
What is IMMUNIZATION
100
This refers to the freedom from external control.
What is AUTONOMY
100
These are organic substances present in small amounts in foods that are essential to normal metabolism.
What are VITAMINS
200
These are the philosophical ideals of right & wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
What is the CODE OF ETHICS
200
The presence and growth of microorganisms within the host without tissue invasion or damage.
What is COLONIZATION
200
This type of joint is the hip.
What is BALL & SOCKET.
200
This is the volume of blood pumped by the heart during 1 minute
What is the CARDIAC OUTPUT
200
This is a picture of this
What is a BARREL CHEST
200
This is a broad term that refers to all factors that influence communication.
What is METACOMMUNICATION
200
This is a broad statement that describes a desired change in a patient's condition, perceptions, or behavior.
What is a GOAL
200
This is described as
What is Purulent
200
These are key quality indicators that help health care institutions improve performance, increase accountability, and reduce costs.
What are CORE MEASURES
200
The three common conditions affecting cognition are delirium, dementia and this.
What is DEPRESSION
200
A concept included in social learning theory, refers to a person's perceived ability to successfully complete a task.
What is SELF-EFFICACY
200
This is the volume of blood ejected from the ventricles during systole.
What is STROKE VOLUME
200
This continues to be one of the most pressing health care challenges in the nation.
What is PATIENT SAFETY
200
This refers to the agreement to keep promises.
What is FIDELITY
200
These are the most calorie-dense nutrient, providing 9kcal/g.
What are LIPIDS (fats)
300
This is an essential element of professional nursing the involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
What is Autonomy
300
A temperature or chemical that destroys bacteria.
What is a BACTERICIDAL
300
These are white, glistening, fibrous bands of tissue that occur in various lengths and thicknesses.
What are TENDONS
300
A true fever results from an alteration in this.
What is HYPOTHALAMIC SET POINT
300
When assessing the abdomen this is how long you auscultate if nothing is heard.
What is 5 mins
300
This allows you to express feelings and ideas without judging or hurting others.
What is ASSERTIVENESS
300
This is the step of the nursing process where you initiate interventions designed to help a patient achieve the goals and expected outcomes needed to support or improve the patient's health status.
What is IMPLEMENTATION
300
This is what is in the nurse's hand (full name)
What is Jackson-Pratt drainage device
300
This is an awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connection to a higher being, nature, or some purpose greater than oneself.
What is SPIRITUALITY
300
This is the leading cause of death in older adults.
What is HEART DISEASE
300
This is a force that acts on or within a person to cause the person to behave in a particular way.
What is MOTIVATION
300
This is the normal cardiac output in a healthy adult at rest.
What is 4-6 L/min
300
Threats to an adult's safety are frequently associated with these.
What are LIFESTYLE HABITS
300
This provides a foundation for professional nursing.
What is THE ANA CODE OF ETHICS
300
The pH range of gastric fluid from a patient who has fasted for at least 4 hours is usually this.
What is 1.0 to 4.0
400
This addresses the challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously improve the quality of care in their work environments.
What is QSEN
400
These bacteria typically cause infections deep within the pleural cavity, in a joint, or in a deep sinus tract.
What is ANAEROBIC bacteria
400
The nervous system controls balance through the functions of these.
What is the CEREBELLUM & INNER EAR
400
This is the measurement of exhaled carbon dioxide through exhalation.
What is CAPNOGRAPHY
400
This position
What is SIMS'
400
This is what S.O.A.P stands for in SOAP Note.
Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan
400
This is a clinical judgment concerning a human response to health conditions/life processes, or vulnerability for that response by an individual, family, or community that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat.
What is a NURSING DIAGNOSIS
400
This is what nursing interventions for patients who are immobile or have other risk factors for pressure ulcers focus on.
What is PREVENTION
400
This view enables you to establish a helping role and a healing relationship.
What is HOLISTIC
400
This is a therapeutic tool that you use to help comfort older adults. It communicates interest.
What is TOUCH
400
The teaching process closely parallels this process.
What is COMMUNICATION PROCESS
400
This is the transient imbalance between oxygen supply and demand.
What is ANGINA PECTORIS
400
These are when physical restraints are to be used.
What is as a LAST RESORT
400
Professional nursing promotes accountability, responsibility, advocacy and this.
What is CONFIDENTIALITY
400
This is where Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) is administered through.
Where is a CENTRAL LINE
500
If a patient in the ED developed wheezing and SOB and the nurse gives the ordered nebulizer tx now and in 4 hours, which standard of practice is performed?
What is IMPLEMENTATION
500
This depends on an individual's degree of resistance to pathogens.
What is SUSCEPTIBILITY
500
This is an accumulation of platelets, fibrin, & clotting factors.
What is a THROMBUS
500
When taking a client's blood pressure, the nurse is unable to distinguish the point at which the first sound was heard. Which action should the nurse take?
What is deflate the cuff to zero and wait 30 to 60 seconds before reattempting the reading.
500
This position
What is DORSAL RECUMBENT
500
These are classifications based on a patient's primary and secondary medical diagnoses that are used as the basis for establishing Medicare reimbursement for patient care.
What are DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS or DRGs
500
Analysis and interpretation of assessment data begin by organizing all of a patient's data into meaningful and usable one's of these
What are DATA CLUSTERS
500
This is a tough fibrous protein and found in the dermal layer along with blood vessels and nerves.
What is COLLAGEN
500
This refers to an energizing source that has an orientation to future goals and outcomes.
What is HOPE
500
This is a risk factor for the four most common causes of death.
What is SMOKING
500
This deals with expression of feelings and development of values, attitudes, and beliefs.
What is AFFECTIVE LEARNING
500
This is what is associated with hypoxia.
What is DYSPNEA
500
This was developed to meet the challenge of preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
What is THE QUALITY AND SAFETY EDUCATION FOR NURSES (QSEN) project
500
A nurse's point of view offers a unique voice in the resolution of this.
What is ETHICAL DILEMMAS
500
This is the measurement system of the size and makeup of the body.
What is ANTHROPOMETRY