Week 1
Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri
What are the states that Psych Techs are licensed in?
The five objective measurements of vital signs.
What are Temperature (T), Pulse (P), Respirations (R), Blood Pressure (BP), Oxygen Saturation (SpO2)
An assessment that involves an examination and an interview regarding a specific body system.
What is a focused assessment?
Someone who experiencing labored or difficult breathing.
What is Dyspneic or Dyspnea?
On nutrition labels these are in large bold font that is easy to read.
What are calories?
This nursing pioneer is also known as “Angel of the Battlefield”
Who is Clara Barton?
A pulse less than 60 beats per min.
What is bradycardia?
This scale examines Eye Response, Verbal Response, Motor Responses.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
This is inserted in the pleural space of the chest to release air in a pneumothorax.
What is a chest tube?
This aides to maintains body temperature, transport minerals, vitamins, and electrolytes, cushion the brain and spinal cord, and lubricates joints.
What is water?
In Maslow's Hierarchy; Friends, Family, A lover or someone to be intimate is a part of this level.
What is love and belonging?
This is the absence of cessation of respirations.
What is Apnea?
These drugs are highly addictive and have no medical purpose; therefore they are sometimes referred to as “street drugs.” ex. heroin, LSD and peyote
What are Schedule I
The practice of discrimination and prejudice against older adults.
What is ageism?
A test that determines the presence of blood in the stool.
What is a stool guaiac test?
Prodromal phase, Symptomatic phase, Seeking help phase, Dependency phase, Recovery phase
What are the phases of illness?
Theses are expected to be met by the time of discharge.
What is a Short-term goal?
for this injection site, one would draw an imaginary line between the posterior superior iliac spine and the greater trochanter.
What is the Dorsogluteal?
Occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, or opaque, causing visual blurring.
What are cataracts?
This occurs when the patient’s skin moves in opposite directions than items the patient is on.
What is shearing?
This occurs when the environment is not favorable, but health is favorable.
What is Emergent High-Level Wellness?
A disease or illness diagnosed by the physician
What is a Medical Diagnosis?
A voluntary agreement made by a well-advised, mentally competent patient to be treated by a health-care provider or institution.
What is an informed consent?
When medications, treatments, and various therapies are provided with the intent of healing or curing a patient’s illness.
What is curative care?
When both blood and clear drainage are present.
What is serosanguineous drainage?