Education
The patient is a hands-on learner.
What is kinesthetic learning style?
Medical term meaning swelling
What is edema?
True/False: It is appropriate to leave an ice pack on for longer than 30 minutes.
The nurse ties this type of knot when restraining their patient.
What is quick release knot?
The four spheres of orientation.
What are person, place, time, and situation?
The nurse uses open-ended questions when speaking with the patient.
What is therapeutic communication?
The patient has bowed legs due to a vitamin D deficiency.
What is rickets?
The nurse refers to this when a chemical spills.
What is the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)?
The nurse has the patient perform the task while the nurse watches to assure they are doing it correctly.
What is teach-back?
The patient has non-blanchable redness on their coccyx.
What is a stage 1 pressure injury?
The patient's pain comes and goes.
What is intermittent pain?
The nurse should use an electric trimmer rather than a razor if the patient is taking this type of medication.
What are anticoagulants/blood thinners?
The patient with benign prostatic hyperplasia uses this type of urinary catheter to make it through the urethra.
What is a Coude catheter?
The nurse advises the patient eat this type of food to help relieve their constipation.
What are fruits and vegetables (fiber)?
This tool is used to measure risk for skin impairment.
What is the Braden Scale?
This pain is perceived at a different location than the pain's origin.
What is referred pain?
The acronym RACE is used for this type of emergency.
What is a fire? +100 bonus points if you can list what RACE stands for.
The client with poor oral hygiene is at risk for this cardiac condition.
What is endocarditis?
The nurse advises the patient do this to prevent falls at home. (Name 1 fall-risk intervention in the client's home).
What are making sure there is adequate lighting, wearing shoes with traction, clearing clutter and widening pathways in the home, etc.?
This ethical term refers to the act of doing no harm.
What is non-maleficence?
This factor can affect the patient's response to pain.
What is culture, past experiences, physiological disease, etc.?
The nurse does this to prevent falls. (Name 1 fall risk intervention).
What is put yellow nonskid socks on patient, place patient room close to nurse's station, reinforce call light teaching, etc?
The nurse does this when suspecting the patient may have an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
What is auscultating the abdomen for bruits?