Mental Health
This nursing skill involves understanding and respecting a patient’s cultural beliefs, values, and practices to provide individualized and effective care.
What is Cultural Competence?
This type of data includes information reported by the patient, such as pain level, nausea, or emotional distress.
What is Subjective Data
According to Maslow, this is the most basic level of human need and includes essentials like food, water, warmth, and rest.
What is physiological needs?
This practice is the most effective way to prevent infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This condition, defined by a drop of at least 20 mm Hg systolic or 10 mm Hg diastolic within three minutes of standing, is associated with increased risk of falls, syncope, and even cardiovascular mortality, especially in older adults.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This communication technique involves restating the patient’s words to show understanding and encourage further sharing.
What is paraphrasing?
This type of assessment is used when a patient presents with a specific complaint, such as chest pain or shortness of breath, and targets only the affected body system.
What is Focused Assessment?
According to Erikson, this stage occurs in adolescence and involves exploring personal identity and developing a sense of self.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
This PPE item is worn to protect against airborne pathogens.
What is N95 Mask?
This pain scale asks patients to rate their pain on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 representing no pain and 10 representing the worst pain imaginable.
What is the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)?
This aspect of holistic care involves recognizing and supporting a patient’s beliefs, values, and practices that give meaning and purpose to life, especially during illness or end-of-life care.
What is spiritual needs?
This part of the health assessment involves inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation to gather objective data about the patient’s body systems.
What is a Physical Examination?
This psychological concept explains why adolescents may conform to peer behaviors, even when those behaviors conflict with personal values or parental expectations.
What is Peer Pressure?
These precautions are the foundational infection control practices used in all healthcare settings to prevent the transmission of infectious agents. They are applied to all patients, regardless of their diagnosis or infection status, and are based on the assumption that every person could be a source of infection
What is standard precautions?
Techniques of Physical Examination
What is Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation?
This exam includes components such as appearance, behavior, mood and affect, thought process, cognition, and insight to evaluate a patient’s psychological functioning.
What is the Mental Status Exam?
This type of question encourages patients to share more detailed information by allowing them to respond freely, rather than with a simple "yes" or "no."
What is open-ended question?
According to Maslow, this level of need must be met before individuals can pursue esteem and self-actualization, and includes safety from violence, financial security, and health.
What are Safety Needs?
This term describes the sequence of events that allows infection to spread from one host to another.
What is the Chain of Infection?
What is Percussion?
This type of nursing assessment includes evaluating family structure, function, health status, cultural beliefs, environmental factors, and coping mechanisms.
What is a Family Assessment?
This type of assessment is performed quickly in life-threatening situations and focuses on airway, breathing, circulation, consciousness, and safety.
What is an Emergency Assessment?
This stage in Piaget’s theory, typically occurring between ages 7 and 11, is when children begin to think logically about concrete events but struggle with abstract concepts.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
This PPE protects the mucous membranes of the eyes from splashes or sprays.
What are googles or face shields?
technique that involves listening to sounds produced within the body using a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?