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Basic Nursing Duties
Your Signs are Vital
Oxygen, Who Needs It?
Nursing Protocols
100
Drug commonly used in status epilepticus.
What is Dilantin?
100
What you can do to EVERY patient without taking them out on a dinner date.
What is undress them?
100
Often called the 5th vital sign.
What is Pulse Ox?
100
First line therapy in a 38 year old asthmatic who is wheezing with a pulse ox of 96%.
What is Oxygen?
100
"My chest hurts. Can't you give me something?" Don't bother to ask the doctor, he's eating lunch.
What is aspirin and SL Nitroglycerin?
200
Long acting paralytic used to aid in an intubated patient.
What is Vecuronium?
200
This mode of dismissal should always be used after administering IV narcotics or sedation.
What is wheel chair?
200
Are often "normal" with an AMI or CVA.
What are vital signs?
200
Often "normal" in many cases of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
What is O2 saturation?
200
"This is the worst headache I have ever had".
What is notify the provider?
300
Often used to treat chest pain in an acute MI.
What is IV Nitroglycerin?
300
What should be done within 5 minutes after giving a patient sublingual Nitroglycerin.
What is re-evaluate the patient's symptoms?
300
The only form of tonnage that should be written on the triage sheet.
What is kilograms?
300
What a confused patient might need who has pulse ox of 100% and a pH of 7.1.
What is intubation?
300
What you can give without a physician's order to a 38 year old male with acute right flank pain with nausea, vomiting, and no medication allergies.
What is IV Toradol and Zofran?
400
If you want "fat blood" this is not the drug for you.
What is Heparin?
400
Should be done within 1 hour after starting an insulin infusion.
What is check glucose level?
400
BP 126/72, Pulse 110, RR 16, Pulse Ox 98%.
What is incomplete vital signs (no temperature)?
400
What you might expect someones pulse ox to do if their PaO2 drops from 145 to 65.
What is no change?
400
"I've had diarrhea for 5 days and I have to go NOW."
What is collect stool specimen?
500
A long thin blue malleable object with a curved tip used to aid in difficult intubations.
What is Gum Bougie?
500
What you can do for chest pain, headache, flank pain, abdominal pain and pediatric fever without a physician's order.
What is Nursing protocols?
500
This abbreviation should NEVER be written under vital signs.
What is "NA"?
500
Pulse Ox may be falsely depressed in the "pale" condition.
What is anemia?
500
What you can give a patient with a "typical migraine" who is allergic to Toradol, Benadryl, and Reglan.
What is nasal Oxygen?