C's get degrees
Don't screw this up!
This is vital
Enter with caution
Mixed bag
100
This is the angle that intramuscular injections may be administered.
What is 90 degrees?
100
This is the information that I will put on any patch that is applied to one of my patients.
What are date/time and initials?
100
This is a normal pulse rate.
What is 60-100 BPM?
100
This type of asepsis reduces and prevents the spread of microorganisms.
What is medical asepsis?
100
This is the pH of intestinal fluid.
What is 6 or more?
200
This is the angle that subcutaneous injections are given at.
What is 45-90 degrees?
200
This is the minimum number of times I will confirm that I have the correct medication and correct dose for the correct patient prior to medication administration.
What is 3?
200
This is a normal respiration rate.
What is 12-20?
200
These type of precautions are used to keep pathogens contained in one area.
What are isolation precautions?
200
Urticaria, rash, and wheezing experienced after receiving a medication may indicate this.
What is an allergic reaction?
300
This is the angle that an intradermal injection is given at.
What is 5-15 degrees?
300
This is the position I will have my patient in for receiving vaginal medication.
What is dorsal recumbent?
300
This BP reading (177/92) indicates.....
What is hypertension?
300
I will wear a mask when I am within 2 meters of a patient on this type of precautions.
What is droplet precautions?
300
This is the term I would use to document clear watery drainage from a wound.
What is serous?
400
My patient is morbidly obese. I will administer her subcutaneous medication at this angle.
What is 90 degrees?
400
Before I administer any medications I will ID my client by these.
What are confirm their name as well as one other identifier such as PHN or DOB.
400
Oxygen is administered to reverse this condition.
What is hypoxemia?
400
This type of precautions require a negative-pressure room.
What are airborne precautions?
400
These landmarks are used to locate the ventrogluteal injection site.
What are the greater trochanter, the iliac spine, and the iliac crest?
500
My patient is extremely thin, I will administer her subcutaneous injection at this angle.
What is 45 degrees?
500
These are the 10 rights of medication administration.
What are: medication, dose, patient, route, time/frequency, documentation, reason, refuse, patient education, evaluation.
500
The term ventilation describes this process.
What is the movement of gasses in and out of the lungs?
500
I know to wear at least these two items while performing a bed bath on a patient who is on contact precautions.
What are gown and gloves?
500
The respiratory control center is found in this part of the brain.
What is the brain stem?