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Baseline
What is the patient's average range of vital signs? Checking the baseline helps you determine if vital sign findings are expected or indicate a change in condition requiring intervention and reporting to the primary nurse/physician.
100
WNL
What is we never looked or something to never use in a narrative note? It means "we never looked" because a normal is not defined.
100
People First Language
What is empowering and showing respect for patients by referring to them by name or pronoun rather than their disease or location?
100
Triples Birth Weight
What is 10-12 months? (Specifically 12 months)
100
Oxygen regulator & delivery device, ambubag (correct size), emergency trach & downsized trach, suction canister & catheter, blood pressure cuff (correct size), code button
What are things to check at the head of the bed before providing care? You don't want to find out during an emergency this equipment isn't at your fingertips!
200
Get report from the primary nurse
What is the action you take BEFORE you assess your patient or give medications? Checking with the nurse assures you have the most up to date information about the nurse's plan of care.
200
Cut & Paste
What is something you never do? Put it in your own words to show understanding. If you must copy SHORT phrases, use quotation marks and include an APA reference.
200
The "R" Word
What is a derogatory term not to be used to describe people with cognitive differences? Also, it is not be used for any other reason.
200
Wean to table food
What is 10-12 months?
200
Elastic
What is a child's skin that is hydrated? Elastic skin snaps back to its original shape. The opposite of elastic would be tented skin.
300
Any order that makes sense for that patient at that moment
What is the correct order to assess a pediatric patient? Assessment does not have to be head to toe, it can be in any order depending on the child's condition, state of being, and environmental factors. Use clinical judgment and critical thinking to determine the best order of assessment.
300
Pathophysiology
What is the explanation (in your own words) for the History of Present Illness, Medication Reason, Lab Clinical Significance, and Intervention Rationale section of the Nursing Database? Also, it is the basis of everything we do and leads to manifestations, interventions, and outcomes.
300
Meals on Demand
What is a family centered practice that allows patients to order meals when they're hungry?
300
Initiative vs Guilt
What is Preschooler 3-5 years?
300
S1/S2
What are the heart sounds that indicate a "normal" assessment?
400
FLACC
What is a tool for assessing pain in nonverbal children?
400
Direct Connection
What is between the nursing diagnosis, short term goal, and interventions in the nursing care plan? All should be directly related, one leading to the next.
400
Adapt
What is something the NURSE does to help the patient & family cope with their illness and healthcare? The nurse should minimize the amount the family has to adapt as this increases stress during a time when the family has to maximize coping.
400
Cause & Effect
What is Schoolage 6-12 years?
400
Nasal flaring, grunting, tripoding, retractions, adventitious breath sounds
What are signs of increased work of breathing?
500
Growth: Height & Weight
What is the 7th vital sign?
500
Subjective Statements
What is something that doesn't belong in nursing documentation? Nursing documentation needs to be specific and objective. In rare situations that subjective statement cannot be avoided, use qualifying terms like "seems."
500
Open Visitation
What is a family centered care policy that does not restrict family access to patient? This eases the burden on families who have limited transportation, additional children for which to care, or just want to be with their child as much as possible.
500
No Head Lag
What is 7-9 months? Specifically, not past 6 month
500
+1, +2, +3, +4
What is a rating scale to describe muscle and pulse strength? It is equally, if not more, important to assess strength for equality bilaterally.