Emotional Support
This is the most fundamental component of communication skills.
What is listening?
Bathing is an example of this type of activity.
What is ADL (Activities of Daily Living)?
A Device that helps pull buttons through the button hole.
What are buttonholers/button hooks?
This should be done promptly after a patient uses a urinal or bedpan to maintain hygiene and prevent infection.
What is emptying it?
Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by high blood sugar levels. Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar levels can occur in diabetics and can cause life threatening complications. This is the term for excessive sweating, one of the symptoms of hypoglycemia along with shaking and headaches.
What is Diaphoresis?
This is the proper way to carry clean bed linen to a patient's room—keeping it away from your uniform.
What is the way to transport linen?
This is the definition of NPO
What is Nothing By Mouth?
Smiling, eye contact, erect posture, and attention to what the speaker is conveying are all signs of this.
What is active listening?
This is the proper way to clean the perineal area.
What is Anterior to Posterior?
A Device that helps with a better grip for grooming techniques, such as brushing teeth and combing hair.
What is a built-up handled device?
This is why assuring the patient is clean after toileting is important.
What is to avoid skin breakdown (or) irritation
If a patient who had previously eaten receives CPR and now has emesis in their mouth, you must turn them to the side to prevent this from happening.
What is Aspiration?
The ideal time to change bed linen when the patient is up and walking.
What is the best time to change linen?
This should be put over the drain in the sink when cleaning dentures
What is a wash cloth?
This is something that healthcare providers must be aware of at all times when communicating with patients and their families.
What is empathy?
The following are: new rashes, bleeding, swollen or red areas, unusual odors, excessive drainage, pt reports burning, pain, or itching.
What are Objective Signs?
Someone who helps disconnect the patient from the infusion pump to help them dress or undress.
Who is the RN?
This should always be given to a patient when using the toilet alone.
What is a call light?
A patient walks into the ER. He's seen to have cyanosis, is in confusion, and reports a headache. The doctor checks his pulse rate, and notes he has tachycardia, palpitations and no blockage of blood flow to his body. He uses this term to describe some of the patient's symptoms.
What is Hypoxia?
This term describes dirty linen placed on floor after removal
What is improper linen disposal?
The three times you should offer oral care
What is when the pt wakes up, after meals, or prior to bedtime?
This is a specific type of communication between a healthcare provider and a patient that aims to enhance patient comfort, trust, safety, and health, such as by using terminology patients understand.
What is therapeutic communication?
A procedure when an appliance is filled with warm water and placed in the toilet for the patient to sit on.
What is Sitz Bath?
Actions that introduce bacteria into a sterile environment can put the patient at risk for a bloodstream infection.
What is an improper technique?
When Weighing a patient in a wheelchair, this must always be subtracted before recording the patient's weight.
What is the weight of a wheelchair
You may hear this if someone with conditions such as a meniscus tear, vitamin D deficiency, or synovial chondromatosis moves.
What is Crepitus?
This goes above the fitted sheet for patient movement if needed
What is draw/transfer sheet?
This is one of two things you can fill a denture cup with
What is lukewarm water or denture solution
“Let’s get started as soon as you’re ready, Mr. Ellis.” is an example of this type of therapeutic communication.
What is giving recognition?
The cleansing done of the patients face, neck, hands, back, armpits, buttocks, and perineal areas.
What is partial bath?
The safe temperature range is between 40.5° and 43.3°C (105.5° and 110°F) for this activity.
What is hair washing?
Nurses keep track of this to check a patient’s kidney health
What is urinary output?
Ischemic colitis is categorized into one of four disease types. It is a treatable disease characterized by the gradual decrease of blood flow to the colon over time, and is often associated with elderly patients.
What is Chronic Disease?
Tucking & mitring all corners of the bed is considered this
What is a restraint?
This should be noted on a denture cup
What is name and room number?