Nursing Process
The stage when a nurse educates a patient about washing hands with soap.
What is Implementation?
A detailed note by a nurse relating to the care of a patient.
What is narrative documentation or a nurse's progress note?
Clean, surgical, sterile, and medical.
What are types of asepsis?
Name the types of isolation precautions.
What are standard, contact, droplet, airborne, and protective?
Patient states, "I only wash my hands before I change my wound dressing." Think nursing application...
What is reeducate the patient's knowledge deficit relating to the need to wash hands before and after wound care to help reduce infection?
Stage to analyze cues and prioritize data.
What is diagnosis?
Only documenting the abnormal items.
What is charting by exeption?
The stage when a patient states, "I am feeling achy and had a scratchy throat this morning."
What is the prodromal or illness stage of infection?
State steps to remove PPE.
What are remove gloves, goggles, gown, mask, and wash hands? or What are remove gown & gloves, face shield, mask, and wash hands?
Explain at least 3 things a nurse should do before a procedure.
What are introduce yourself, verify identity of patient, wash hands, wear correct PPE, and gather correct supplies?
The stage when a nursing care plan is best organized.
What is planning?
Anytime access to medical documents for improved continuity of care and portability of records.
What are the benefits of an EHR?
Invasive procedures, poor sterile technique, or breaks to infection prevention can lead to this type of infection.
What is CAUTI or HAI?
Mumps, pneumonia, flu, rubella, and pertussis
What are infections needing droplet precautions?
What are cultural influences that impact care?
Stage to identify patient abnormalities based on human anatomy and clinical experiences.
What is assessment?
Subjective data, Objective data, Assessment, and Plan
What is a SOAP note?
Steps to hand washing
What are wetting hands, lather all areas for at least 20 seconds, rinse with fingers pointing downwards, going from tips to wrist, dry with clean towel by blotting?
N95 mask
What is the correct mask type for a nurse to wear in airborne precautions?
The nurse should make what decision when they break a sterile glove when donning.
What is get a new set of sterile gloves and start over?
The stage when the nurse reassesses a temperature and confirms it is WNL.
What is Evaluation?
Tool to visually organize patient cues, nursing diagnosis, plan of care, medications, or other items.
What is Concept Mapping?
Sepsis would be this type of infection.
What is a systemic infection?
Diarrhea viruses should get this for hand hygiene.
What are soap and water?
Nurse wants to take a discharged patient that is positive for flu to their ride at the main entrance, name the safety guideline that needs to be followed.
What is place a mask on patient for transport in side the hospital?