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This nurse completes a 1 year program and cannot evaluate, assess or teach (EAT).
What is an LPN?
Administering an injection after the patient refuses.
What is battery?
Rescue the client, pull the alarm, confine/contain and extinguish.
What are the steps of RACE?
This organization oversees global health concerns.
What is the WHO?
Examples are touch, eye contact, facial expressions, posture, gait, sounds, silence.
What is nonverbal communication?
Graduating from an accredited college of nursing and passing the NCLEX-RN Licensing Examination.
What are the steps to becoming a Registered Nurse?
Competent practice, complete documentation, keeping current in nursing knowledge and skills, and knowing scope of practice.
What are legal safeguards for nursing?
Hourly rounding, remove clutter, educate the patient on the call light, set breaks on beds and recliners/wheelchairs, keep bed in lowest position, involve family, proper notification of risk, etc.
What are interventions to prevent falls?
This organization oversees workplace and employee safety.
What is OSHA?
"Do you want to take your medication now?"
What is an example of a closed question?
This group can grant, deny, revoke or suspend a nurse's license.
What is the state board of nursing?
Careful preparation and rest for clinical, clear communication with instructor, being familiar with agency policies and procedures, prompt notification of changes in patient condition, and responsibility for own actions.
What is the role of the student nurse?
Develops and oversees the National Patient Safety Goals.
What is The Joint Commission?
Focused on preparing future nurses with the tools to provide for patient safety and quality healthcare.
What is QSEN?
What is SBAR?
A problem solving approach to making clinical decisions using the best evidence available.
What is evidence-based practice?
Protects all written and spoken patient information.
What is HIPAA?
What is an incident or safety report?
The nurse does not turn the patient every two hours as ordered and the patient develops a pressure ulcer.
What is negligence?
What is PRN?
The unique knowledge base for care provided by nursing.
What is the science of nursing?
These are laws established in each state to regulate nursing practice.
What are Nurse Practice Acts?
Must have a provider's order and should not be used for staff convenience.
What are restraints?
The nurse is responsible for the outcomes of the relationship and does more listening than talking.
What is a therapeutic relationship?
Documentation entered in quotes.
What is subjective data?