Injections (Shots)
Laws, Patient Safety & Healthcare
Medical Term
Vital Signs
Pharmacology
CPR & Emergencies
Documentation and Charting
Infection Control
Medical Terminology
100
Bevel up at a 5 to 15 degree angle
What is the angle and way you should hold the TB syringe when giving a TB Skin Test?
100
An individual who is prone to engage in lawsuit
What is a litigious person?
100
Right hypochondriac
100
60-100 bpm
What is the normal adult pulse range?
100
Medications that are not protected by trademark.
What are Generic medications?
100
Check the scene for safety
What is the first thing you should do before assisting someone who may need CPR?
100
Black Ink
What is the only acceptable writing instrument in the healthcare field?
100
Wash or sanitize your hands
What is single best thing you can do to prevent infection?
100
Pulse below 60 and respirations below 12.
What are bradycardia and bradypnea?
200
Start at the center of the injection site and go in a circular motion from the inside outward.
What is the proper way to clean an injection site?
200
To punish the party who committed the wrong in such a way as to deter repetition of the act. These damages were set so that the amounts would discourage intentional wrong doing, misconduct, and outrageous behavior.
Who are punitive damages designed?
200
jaund/o
What is the medical prefix meaning yellow?
200
Considered the 5th Vital Sign
What is pain?
200
Referring to administration of a medication under the tongue.
What is sublingual?
200
When there's No breathing and No pulse or pulse below 60 bpm
When should you do CPR on an infant?
200
Last Name, First initial & Title
What is the appropriate way to sign a patient's chart?
200
Complete destruction of all forms of microbial life
What is sterilization?
300
Administer it again 2 inches or more away from the first one.
When administering a TB test, if you do not make a wheal (bubble) that is 6-10 mm, what should you do?
300
For common or simple procedures generally understood to involve little risk.
When is Implied Consent used?
300
140 & up/90 and up
What is high blood pressure or hypertension?
300
Medications that do not cure a disorder but relieve pain or symptoms related to the condition.
What is palliative?
300
If someone more trained arrives and takes over, if the victim is showing signs of life or you are ABSOLUTELY exhausted and cannot go on.
When is it appropriate for a BLS CPR trained provider to stop CPR?
300
SLIDE Rule
What is the acronym for single line, initials, date and error? (The appropriate way to correct written errors)
300
Becoming non-sterile by contact with any non-sterile material
What is contamination?
400
Hold the skin taut and inject at a 90 degree angle
How should you give an IM i injection?
400
Law that states that a competent individual who is 18 years of age or older may donate all or any part of his or her body after death for research, transportation, or placement in a tissue bank.
What is the Uniform anatomical gift act?
400
98.6-100.6
What is the normal adult temperature range for an axillary temperature?
400
The part of a prescription that lists the name of the drug, dosage form, and strength.
What is the Inscription?
400
Turn it on and follow the prompts
What should you do when the AED arrives?
400
NKDA
What is the abbreviation for NO Known Drug Allergies?
400
Invasion of body tissues by microorganisms, which proliferate and damage tissues.
What is an infection?
500
45 degrees and pinch
How to give a subcutaneous injection?
500
A discussion must occur during which the provider gives the patient or the patient's legal representative enough information (a full explanation) to decide whether the patient will undergo the treatment or seek an alternative.
What is informed consent?
500
The first blood pressure sound that you will hear (heart at work) and is the top number and the last number you will hear (heart at rest) and is the bottom number.
What is systolic and diastolic?
500
The part of the prescription that directs the patient in how to take the drug.
What is the signature?
500
15 compressions and 2 breaths
What is the appropriate rate of chest compressions and breaths for 2 rescuer child or infant CPR?
500
R del or R Deltoid
What is the appropriate way to chart an intramuscular injection given in the right deltoid muscle?
500
The process of killing pathogenic organisms or of rendering them inactive
What is disinfection?
600
1-1 1/2 inch 19-25 gauge needle
What needle size and gauge would be appropriate for an adult IM injection?
600
Delivered by certified mail, return receipt requested.
What is when a provider terminates the contract for care the provider must write a letter of withdrawal from medical care of a patient
600
Patient has an IV on their right arm
What is one reason why you might need to take a blood pressure on the patient's left arm?
600
The part of a prescription that directs the pharmacist in how to dispense the prescribed medication.
What is the Subscription?
600
The cleaning process that removes organic material and reduces the number of microorganisms to a safe level
What is sanitation?
700
1/2-5/8 inch 26-30 gauge needle
What size and gauge needle is appropriate for (an adult) subcutaneous injection?
700
The sheets that contain information about chemicals, list hazards, precautions and manufacture information.
What are MSDS-Material Safety Data Sheets?
700
60-100 bpm
What is the normal adult pulse range?
700
A drug interaction in which one drug increases the intensity or prolongs the action of another drug
What is Synergism?
700
gowns, face shield or mask, gloves
What is PPE-Personal Protective Equipment?
800
It will be a 3/8 to 3/4 inch 27 gauge needle labeled Tuberculin
Which needle should be used to give a TB test?
800
Pulse sites located on the side of the forehead, neck, the apex of the heart, wrist, groin, back of knee and on top of the foot.
What are the temporal, carotid, apical, radial, femoral, popliteal and pedal pulses?
800
A form of synergism in which the action of one drug is increased by the presence of another drug. The two drugs may have different actions, but one increases the effect of the other
What is potentiates?
900
Take a Radial pulse (the most common site) for one full minute
How should the pulse be taken on a patient who is known to have an irregular pulse?
900
A drug interaction in which one drug reduces the intensity or shortens the duration of action of another drug.
What is Antagonism?
1000
What are the (1)Right hypochondriac region , (2) Epigastric region, (3) Left hypochondriac region (4) Right lumbar region (5) Umbilical region (6) Left lumbar region (7) Right inguinal region (8) Hypogastric region (9)Left inguinal region
1000
Legislation that requires that a drug or other substance that has the potential for illegal use and abuse must be placed on the controlled substance list and be regulated by the DEA.
What is the Controlled Substance Act