Vocabulary
This type of touch has different meanings to different people, often due to their upbringing and cultural background.
What is affective touch?
This term refers to sounds that result from the vibrations of blood within the arterial wall or changes in blood flow.
What are Korotkoff sounds?
This communication framework is exemplified by the nurse saying to the provider, "I am calling about Mr. Brimley. He has new onset diabetes mellitus. His blood glucose is 250 mg/dL and I wondered if you'd like to adjust the sliding scale insulin."
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation)?
This adjective describes a nurse-client relationship in which the goal is the improvement of the client's health.
What is therapeutic?
This term refers to the process of educating adult learners.
What is andragogy?
This type of communication uses body language rather than words.
What is non-verbal communication?
This term, based on Starling's law of the heart, refers to the volume of blood that fills the heart and stretches the heart muscle fibers during the resting phase.
What is preload?
This is the action a nurse should take when correcting the pain assessment documented in the client's paper medical record.
What is drawing a line through the entry and initialing it?
This term refers to the first phase of a fever.
What is the prodromal phase?
This is the first step a nurse should take to personalize a client's learning experience.
What is gathering pertinent information from the client?
This term describes the use and relationship of space to communication.
What is proxemics?
This is the priority nursing intervention for a client who self-monitors blood pressure and reports the exact same reading every day.
What is asking the client to demonstrate self-blood pressure assessment?
This type of documentation is exemplified by a nurse documenting a blood pressure of 170/100 mmHg when all other vitals are normal.
What is charting by exception?
The administration of this treatment is critical for a client who presents to the Emergency Room with a temperature of 100.6°F and BP of 108/60 mmHg.
What are oral fluids?
This term refers to a client who is unable to read and speak English properly but is able to sign their name.
What is functionally illiterate?
This term refers to an intuitive awareness of what a client is experiencing.
What is empathy?
This is the position where the nurse should place the stethoscope in order to best hear the heartbeats of a healthy client.
What is slightly below the left nipple?
The presence of this piece of information on all pages of a health care record helps to ensure legally defensible charting.
What is the client's name?
This adverb indicates when a nurse should assess vital signs for a client who reports feeling different than earlier in the day.
What is immediately?
This reference is how the nurse should begin an education session for a 60-year-old client with an improper bowel movement regimen.
What is a reference to the client's actual experience?
This term describes the learning style of a client who learns better when practicing the self-administration of insulin injections on their own.
What is psychomotor?
This term describes the character of a pulse that a nurse can briefly palpate before losing it when exerting more pressure.
What is a thready pulse?
This is the main benefit offered by maintaining records via charting by exception.
What is quick access to abnormal findings?
This is the best instruction for a nurse to offer if a client has symptoms of orthostatic hypotension.
What is rising slowly from a sitting or lying position?
When preparing to teach a formal group education series for adults who have undergone cardiac bypass graft surgery, the nurse should include these in their learning plan.
What are specific learning outcomes and learning activities?