Leadership Inquires
What is the required amount of time to submit Schedule Changes?
14 days
When assessing lung sounds, this adventitious sound is commonly associated with pneumonia or pulmonary edema.
What are crackles?
This is the angle at which an intramuscular injection is typically administered in the deltoid muscle.
What is 90 degrees?
What are some things that do not fall under the scope of Clinical Mentorship?
1) IV starts without a learning opportunity,
2) Performance management
3) Interviews
4) Patient Transfers
When administering oxygen to a patient, this is the maximum flow rate that should be delivered via nasal cannula.
What is 6 liters per minute?
The Glasgow Coma Scale evaluates three components of a patient’s neurological function. Name them.
What are eye response, verbal response, and motor response
When inserting a nasogastric tube, the correct landmark for measuring the tube’s length is this.
What is the distance from the tip of the nose to the earlobe to the xiphoid process?
These are the 3 stages of transition
What is DOING, BEING and KNOWING?
Fraser Health skill implementation instructions and rationale. What database am I?
What is Elsevier Clinical Skills (found on pulse)
What are you coding as your worked stat shift on your online timesheets?
What is Regular Hours as prem will be added automatically!
When performing a head-to-toe assessment, this technique is used to assess for rebound tenderness in suspected appendicitis. What is the clinical sign?
What is The Blumberg Sign.
Before starting a blood transfusion, the nurse must perform this critical skill to ensure patient safety.
What is verifying patient identification and crossmatching the blood type?
Effective interprofessional communication is guided by this competency framework, endorsed across Canada.
What is the National Interprofessional Competency Framework?
This skill involves identifying abnormal heart rhythms on an ECG, such as atrial fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia.
hat is cardiac rhythm interpretation?
This tool is used to assess fall risk in hospitalized patients and is commonly used in BC hospitals. What is the official name of the tool?
What is the Morse Fall Scale?
Nurses performing wound care should use this technique to obtain a sterile swab for a culture.
What is swabbing the wound bed in a zigzag or rotating motion after cleansing?
When advocating for patient care during a multidisciplinary team meeting, nurses can use this strategy to effectively communicate patient needs.
What is evidence-based reasoning?
Nurses use this bedside skill to detect abnormal fluid accumulation in the abdomen.
What is percussion for ascites (or shifting dullness)?
To check for DVT, nurses assess for pain and swelling and may perform this bedside test, which involves dorsiflexion of the foot. What is the Clinical Sign?
What is Homan’s sign?
During central line dressing changes, nurses in BC hospitals use this protective device to prevent catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs).
What is a chlorhexidine-impregnated disc?
Solving a problem for someone rather than guiding them to work through it on their own is referred to?
What is the Righting Reflex
In BC critical care units, nurses perform this procedure to collect blood for arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis. This evidence-based tool helps nurses evaluate the risks and benefits of a particular intervention or treatment plan.
What is arterial puncture?