Pioneers of Nursing
Horrified by conditions in the field, she lobbied for and helped to create the first modern field hospitals, emphasizing regulations covering sanitary conditions and care, reducing fatalities of wounded soldiers from over 40% to around 2%. After the war she would found the world’s first formal nursing school for women
Who is Florence Nightingale
Diagnosis
Code Status
Laboratory Data
Medications
What is the background
This has a diastolic and a systolic
What is a blood pressure
135-145
What is the normal range for Sodium?
No fresh flowers
No raw fruits
No symptomatic visitors
What is neutropenic precautions?
She created the conservation model of nursing
Who is Myra Estrin Levin?
"Dr. Hinkley, my name is Mariah Asari, and I am calling from Waverly Community Hospital regarding your patient, Omar Nour. Mr. Nour is experiencing difficulty breathing and is complaining of chest pains."
What is the situation?
Patient
Dose
Route
Time
Medication
Documentation
What are the six rights of medication administration
3.5-5.3
What is the normal range for Potassium?
A patient has diarrhea. The provider wants to rule of C-diff
What is contact precautions?
She would eventually be selected to create the first branch of the Red Cross in the United States.
Who is Clara Barton?
Because the patient has a cough, chest pain and shortness of breath, I think he has pneumonia."
What is the Assessment?
The best effective way to prevent the spread of infection
What is handwashing?
1.6-2.2
What is the normal range for magnesium?
Influenza
Rubella
Mumps
Whooping cough
What is droplet precautions?
A Jamaican born Creole she learned nursing as an apprentice with to her mother, utilizing traditional African and Caribbean medicines alongside of modern knowledge of things like contagion theory.
Who is Mary Jane Secole
"I request you to come to the patient's room immediately for a more thorough assessment. In the meantime, I plan to put him on oxygen. Do you agree?"
What is the Recommendation?
Rectal
Tympanic
Oral
Axillary
What are places that you can take a temperature?
8.4-10.4
What is the normal range for Calcium?
These are precautions we take with EVERY patient at ALL times because we don’t know if they have an infectious disease. By implementing these practices, we help prevent transmission of infectious diseases from one to another (ex: patient to nurse, nurse to patient, or patient to patient).
What are standard precautions?
Originally a teacher, she became a student of mental healthcare in a time where mental health care meant “lock them up in the basement. n 1845 her efforts were rewarded when New Jersey became the first of many states to invest in an institution for the humane housing and treatment of the mentally ill during her lifetime.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
In this part, you dictate instructions for your fellow health care providers on how to move forward with the patient's care.
What is recommendation?
Carotid
Apical
Brachial
Radial
Ulnar
Femoral
Popliteal
Dorsalis Pedis
Posterior tibialis
What are pulse locations?
70-110
What is the normal range for glucose?
Wearing these will prevent exposure to infectious material. The level of protection must match the exposure. Can include many items.
What is PPE