Abbreviations
Documentation
Military
Time
Communication
Prefix, Root,
Suffix
100
CPR
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
100
This should be done after a skill or task is completed.
What is documentation?
100
1604
What is 4:04PM?
100
A message, a sender, a receiver, and feedback.
What is need for successful communication?
100
Meaning fast or rapid
What is tachy?
200
Immediately
What is STAT?
200
This is how we must document when using paper charting so information can not be erased.
What is writing in ink?
200
0330
What is 3:30AM?
200
talking to fast, changing sujbect, physical distance, labeling
What are barriers to effective communication?
200
low blood pressure
What is hypotension?
300
I&O
What is intake & output?
300
This is how you signyour name to a note in a resdients chart.
What is your first initial, last name, and title?
300
1:26PM
What is 1326?
300
Posture, gestures, level of activity, facial expressions
What is body language?
300
paralysis
What is -plegia?
400
BM
What is the abbreviation for bowel movement?
400
A written account of the resident's illness and response to the treatment and care given by members of the health care team
What is a medical record?
400
7:15 PM
What is 1915?
400
Identify your department, yourself, title, and ask "May I help you?".
What is proper way to answer the telephone?
400
Derm or derma-a diagnosis may be dermatitis
What is skin?
500
ADL
What is activities of daily living?
500
Written in a manner that can be easily read.
What is legible?
500
12:04 PM
What is 1204?
500
Information that is told to us by a resident, for example, "I have a headache".
What is subjective data?
500
mastectomy
What is removal of the breast?