Professionalism, Patient Experience, Nursing Excellence
This behavior involves treating every patient with dignity, maintaining privacy, and showing respect in all interactions.
What is professionalism?
This document outlines what tasks an RN or LPN is legally permitted to perform in their state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This is the most reliable indicator of a patient’s pain.
What is the patient’s self-report?
This device must always be within reach to reduce fall risk.
What is the call light?
These are the first actions a nurse should take upon finding an unresponsive patient.
What is check for responsiveness and call for help; dial 777 and say "Code Blue, unit" x2.
When a patient expresses frustration, this communication technique helps build trust by acknowledging their feelings.
What is therapeutic communication or active listening?
This nursing role is permitted to perform comprehensive assessments and develop nursing care plans.
Who is the RN?
This pain scale uses facial expressions to assess pain in children or nonverbal adults.
What is the Wong-Baker FACES scale?
Before administering medications, nurses must verify these two patient identifiers.
What are name and date of birth?
This device analyzes heart rhythm and advises whether a shock is needed.
What is the Zoll?
This national program recognizes hospitals that demonstrate excellence in nursing practice and patient outcomes.
What is Magnet Recognition?
This nursing role may collect data and contribute to assessments but cannot independently interpret findings.
Who is the LPN?
Pain lasting longer than 3–6 months is classified as this type.
What is chronic pain?
This standardized communication tool improves handoff safety by structuring information clearly.
What is SBAR?
These are the members of the Code Blue Team.
What are the Leader, recorder, monitor/defib, compressor, medications, airway personnel, runner?
This term describes a nurse’s responsibility to answer for their actions and decisions in patient care.
What is accountability?
Administering IV push medications is typically restricted to this nursing license level, depending on state regulations.
Who is the RN?
Certain patient populations—such as those with obstructive sleep apnea or obesity—require extra monitoring after opioid administration because of this specific risk.
What is opioid‑induced respiratory depression?
This type of precaution is used for patients with infections spread through the air, such as TB.
What are airborne precautions?
During a code, this waveform on capnography is used to evaluate CPR quality and detect ROSC, with a sudden rise often indicating return of spontaneous circulation.
What is end‑tidal CO₂ (ETCO₂)?
This concept emphasizes that every team member — clinical or non-clinical — contributes to the patient’s perception of care.
What is the patient experience or patient-centered care?
Delegation requires the RN to consider the “Five Rights of Delegation.” Name one of them.
What is the right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction/communication, or right supervision/evaluation?
When caring for a patient who cannot self‑report pain, nurses must assess physiologic indicators such as ventilator compliance, muscle tension, and facial expression. These indicators fall under what type of pain assessment?
What is a behavioral or observational pain assessment?
This high‑level safety strategy requires nurses to identify system vulnerabilities by analyzing latent conditions and active failures after an adverse event, focusing on process improvement rather than individual blame.
What is a root cause analysis (RCA)?
Your patient has a MOLST form stating DNR/DNI and a purple tag on his bracelet saying DNR. The patient becomes unresponsive and is pulseless with family present. Family insists you "do something!!!!!" What do you do?
Call provider, call nurse manager, inform family patient was a DNR by their own wishes, offer support, etc.