Safety
The most common method of transmitting a pathogen is what?
What is the hands?
When a patient takes 5 medications, the risk for drug interactions is 50%; with 10 meds the risk is 100%. This is called?
What is polypharmacy?
Who/what determines the scope of practice in a state?
What is the BON (Board of Nursing)?
The form of documentation that uses a story-like format is?
What is narrative charting?
What is a fixed idea or oversimplified image of a particular person of group of people called?
What is a stereotype?
Which patients are most at risk for injury?
What are the youngest and the oldest?
Which route of giving medications bypasses the first-pass effect of the liver?
What is parenteral (IV, IM, SQ)?
Which federal statute prohibits discrimination of a patient with HIV?
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
What are DRGs?
What are Diagnosis-related groups. These are classifications based on a patient's primary/secondary diagnosis used for payment.
What is the term for the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group called?
What is culture?
For what reason would an elderly patient wear a yellow wrist band in a hospital?
What is the patient has a high risk of falling?
What is the ratio of a drug's toxic level to its therapeutic level called?
What is the therapeutic index?
This document allows another person of the patient's choosing to make decisions for the patient when he/she is not longer capable.
What is a DPAC (Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care).
What is the term for the electronic chart of a patient that contains multiple health care encounters (visits)?
What is an EHR (Electronic Health Record)
What is the study of how certain genetic traits affect drug response?
What is pharmacogenetics?
Education on the upcoming developmental milestones of a patient is called what?
What is anticipatory guidance?
Idiosyncratic reactions are usually caused by a deficiency or excess of what?
What are drug-metabolizing enzymes (such as G6PD)?
This law offers immunity and limits liability for nurses who provide care within their scope of practice at the scene of an accident.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Purposes of the Medical Record include: communication, legal documentation, reimbursement, education, auditing/monitoring and __________
What is research?
When caring for an older Hispanic patient, the nurse may recognize that which cultural belief may influence the choice of diet or treatments?
What is the belief in hot/cold influences?
The program developed to reduce medical errors in hospitals is called?
What is the Joint Commission's 2021 National Patient Safety Goals
The hepatic enzyme cytochrome P-450 targets metabolism of what kind of medications?
What is lipid-soluable (fat loving) medications. These are the most common meds.
This is any intentional offensive touching of a patient without consent.
What is battery?
____________ established provisions in 2011 to promote the meaningful use of health information technology to improve the quality and value of health care.
What is HITECH (The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act)?
In which cultures are decisions made for the benefit of the group and not necessarily the individual?
What are Native American and Asians/Pacific Islanders?