Ambulatory Care
Person that revolutionized nursing as an acceptable profession for women in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Physical, Chemical or Mechanical device, restricting freedom of activity, and/or movement of arms, legs, and body.
What is Behavioral Restraint?
Action taken for patient newly diagnosed with cancer who is very upset, crying and scared
What is listen quietly/offer support?
Epinephrine
What is the first drug of choice in a cardiac arrest?
Logic & Reasoning are part of this
What is Critical Thinking?
Hospitals, long term care facilities, client’s homes, clinics, and academia
What are the different settings that nurses work in?
Continuous, direct supervision of a high-risk patient by an assigned Patient Care observer (PCO) keeping the patient within an arm's length
What is 1:1 observation?
organ’s primary role is excretion of soluble fluid, waste
What are the kidneys?
Protocol: 45 minutes post stroke
What is the ideal timeframe to administer alteplase upon ED arrival (from door-to-needle)?
Your mind holds on to old habits, Not having your own thoughts, Closing your mind to alternative thinking
What holds you back from critical thinking?
Nurse collaborates and partners with the health consumer, allowing patients to receive care across the health care continuum.
What is a Care Coordination and Transition Management RN?
Restraint order initiated by an RN, obtained within 1 hour of an emergency situation, and then a new order every 4 hours for patients 18 and older.
What are the time limits for obtaining a behavioral Restraint order?
Two major divisions: one consists of brain & spinal cord, and the other autonomic nervous system
What are the Central and Peripheral Nervous systems?
Viral inflammation of the subglottic are including the trachea and bronchi common among children 6 months to 3 years characterized by a “barking cough”
What is croup?
Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes/Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
What are tools used to develop a nurses Critical Thinking?
Educates leaders/staff on "care coordination" improvement of patient engagement, experience, and self management goals.
What is one of the 16 defining characteristics of Ambulatory Care Nursing?
C-SSRS (Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale)
What is the universal screening requirement for suicide risk?
NPH, Regular, rapid-acting, short-acting, intermediate- and long-acting
What is Insulin?
Type and screen/Type and cross
What are the most critical labs to obtain on a trauma patient?
SYMPTOMS: Tremors in hands, arms, legs, and head, stiff muscles, problems with balance and walking
What is: Parkinson's disease, or Alzheimer's, stroke, stress, TBI, essential tremors. Critical thinking is considering all possibilities then ruling items out
A welcoming, unifying community for registered nurses in all ambulatory care settings that was founded in 1978 as a not for profit, educational forum.
What is the American Association of Ambulatory Care Nurses (AAACN)?
Schizophrenia
What is Personality disintegration and distortion in the perception of reality, thought processes, and social development?
Professional treating Achilles tendinitis, Ankle sprain, Bunion pain
What is a podiatrist?
START (Simple- Triage- Rapid- Treatment)
What is the disaster triage system that categories patients into one of 4 categories?
Symptoms: SOB, Chest or rib soreness, abdominal cramping, Nausea/ vomiting, bull's eye rash at bite site, neck stiffness, twitching of face or eyelids
What is Lyme disease, or Mononucleosis, Flu, Chronic Fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, meningitis. Critical thinking is considering all possibilities then ruling items out