HEALTH PROMOTION
What is primary prevention?
This level of prevention aims to stop disease before it starts.
What is airway?
The first priority in the ABC framework.
Who is the UAP?
This team member may safely assist with bathing, feeding, and ambulation.
What is "Tell me more about what worries you"?
The therapeutic response to a patient who says, "I'm scared."
What is lighting?
The most commonly tested environmental factor during a home assessment.
What is return demonstration?
The best method to evaluate whether a patient learned how to administer insulin injections.
What is an unstable/high-priority condition?
A blood glucose of 52 mg/dL with confusion is considered this type of condition
Who is the PN/LPN?
This licensed nurse may reinforce teaching and administer medications.
"Are you thinking about killing yourself?"
The nurse should ask this direct question when suicide is suspected.
What is the outer 1-inch border?
The outer portion of a sterile field considered contaminated.
What is the teach-back method?
This teaching strategy asks patients to explain information in their own words.
Who is the patient with oxygen saturation of 91%?
This patient takes priority over a client reporting pain 8/10.
What is initial assessment?
A responsibility that can never be delegated.
What is having a specific plan and access to a method?
The highest suicide risk factor.
What is hand hygiene?
The most important intervention for preventing infection.
What are response to teaching, progress toward goals, motivation to learn, or ability to learn?
Two things nurses should document after patient teaching.
What are chronic problems?
When prioritizing care, acute problems generally take precedence over these.
Who is the RN?
Even after delegation, this person remains accountable for patient outcomes.
What is incongruent affect?
A patient laughing while discussing a death demonstrates this.
What is reporting to CPS and ensuring child safety?
A priority action when child abuse is suspected.
What are lifestyle changes?
Health promotion focuses on these changes before illness develops.
"Which patient will suffer harm first if I don't intervene?
The key question nurses should ask when determining priority.
What are assessment, nursing judgment, care planning, evaluation, and patient teaching?
Duties reserved for the RN.
What is energy improves before mood?
A key NCLEX fact about SSRIs that increases suicide risk early in treatment.
What are restraining the patient and placing objects in the mouth?
Two things that should never be done during a seizure.