Safety & Infection Control
This type of hand hygiene is required when caring for a client with C. difficile.
What is washing hands with soap and water?
If an action wasn’t recorded in documentation, legally it is considered this.
What is Not Done.
Maslow’s first level of needs.
What are physiological needs?
Cold drinks can interfere with this type of temperature reading.
What is an oral temperature reading?
A nurse may only access client records under this condition
What is when the nurse is directly involved in the client’s care?
When transferring a client from bed to wheelchair, this must be done to the wheels to ensure safety for both staff and client.
What is lock the wheels?
What are the steps when receiving a telephone order from a provider.
What is write the order down, and repeat the order back making sure to include the medication’s name, dosage, time, and route. Make sure the provider signs the prescription in person within the time frame the facility specifies, typically 24 hr.
This foundational nurse leader believed nursing is distinct from medicine and requires its own education.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Placing a client’s arm above heart level when measuring BP can cause this type of error.
What is a falsely low reading?
This document outlines a client’s wishes for life-sustaining treatment.
What is a living will?
This is the first action the nurse should take if they see smoke coming from a supply room.
What is close all the doors?
How should a nurse assess a client's suicide risk
What is HOW will you carry out your plan?
The type of data when a client reports nausea
What is subjective data?
A client with bradycardia may report this symptom.
What is lightheadedness?
The nurse’s first legal responsibility when suspecting abuse.
What is report to the appropriate authority?
This type of precaution requires negative pressure airflow.
What are airborne precautions
Which action can the nurse to do maintain privacy during personal hygiene care? Ex. bed bath
What is close the curtains around the client's bed?
The nurse role demonstrated when ensuring informed consent.
What is an advocate?
The term used to document continuous low-pitched, snoring-like lung sounds.
What is rhonchi?
What are RNs, Advanced practice Nurses, Physician Assistant, Physician, Dentist or Podiatrist?
The nurse’s first action when finding a client on the floor.
What is assess the patient for injuries?
What is explain to the patient what is about to happen?
This law defines the scope of practice for LPNs in each state
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Checking this is the most reliable way to assess hydration in an older adult.
What is checking the oral mucous membranes?
The definition of Evidenced Based practice (EBP) for the LPN
What is using scientifically researched information to guide decision making?