Oh, The Nursing Process
This organization is responsible for monitoring the safe regulation of foods and medications.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
Home Health visits have been ordered for patient who is discharging soon, and the patient requires assistive devices. What member of the interdisciplinary team is responsible for discharge planning?
Who is the "Case Manager"?
The largest organ in the body, this serves as the 1st line of defense against infection or disease.
What is "skin"?
In therapeutic communication, the way that a nurse asks a question is important. What is the best format to elicit patient information?
What is an "open-ended question"?
What is the evaluation phase?
This regulation defines the scope of practice for nurses.
What is The Nurse Practice Act (NPA)?
A nurse includes questions regarding spiritual and cultural preferences of the patient during an initial assessment. What type of care is being provided?
What is "holistic care"?
Handwashing is the top defense against bacteria entering the body. What is an example of a time when a nurse should wash their hands?
What is "visibly soiled, before and after patient care, after restroom, between patients, etc."?
A charge is completing an incident report for a patient who received the wrong medication, which resulted in their untimely death. What has occurred?
What is a "sentinel event"?
It is in this phase of the nursing process that the nurse gathers information on which all other steps are based.
What is the assessment phase?
Established in 1996, this regulation protects private health information and mandates that information be shared on a "need to know basis" only.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
A nurse is showing this to a patient when they display an understanding of the feelings and emotions of the patient.
What is "empathy"?
What is the best way to reduce the bacterial load on your hands?
What is "handwashing"?
A nurse notes that the needs of her patients are very complex. What is an essential component of managing patient care with other team members?
What is "communication"?
What is ALL of them?
This organization closely monitors communicable diseases.
What is "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"?
Abraham Maslow established a hierarchy of patient needs. You are the nurse caring for a patient who is being discharged. If the patient is abused at home, what stage of the hierarchy is a concern?
What is the "safety" stage?
This promotes overall wellness and prevents illness in patients and is individualized to the patient's abilities.
What is "staying physically active"?
The patient is informed of the risks, benefits, and alternatives of proposed treatments. The nurse's role is ensure that the patient is competent to sign the form.
What is "informed consent"?
In which of the nursing process does the nurse generate solutions?
What is "the planning phase"?
The main function of this organization is to establish and monitor workplace safety regulations.
What is "Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)"?
According to Maslow, provide the correct order of priority for a patient's needs.
What are "Physiological, Safety, Love and Belonging, Esteem, Self Actualization"?
What is "encouraging patients to participate in their care"?
The purpose of this is to enhance communication within the healthcare team.