Safety
This organization is responsible for evaluating a hospital's adherence to safety standards.
Joint Commission
Respiration
You will have to demonstrate this health assessment at the end of this semester.
Head-to-toe
This is the first step of every nursing process.
Assess
REM
This tool is used to improve communication between nurses and providers.
SBAR
This modifiable behavior is a primary risk factor for COPD, cancer, and heart disease.
Smoking
This is the route for any medication given internally that bypasses the digestive tract.
Parenteral
This is the foundational level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Physiological
This ubiquitous stimulant may delay or impair sleep if consumed too late in the day.
Caffeine
Restraints implemented for this reason must be documented every 15 minutes.
This is the lung sound you may hear from a child with a foreign object stuck in their throat.
Stridor
This level of precaution requires the most PPE.
Contact + Airborne
This source of assessment data comes directly from the patient themself.
Primary Subjective
This sleep disorder is most commonly caused by tongue relaxation but may be caused by CNS dysfunction.
Sleep Apnea
This is completed and filed but not charted following a medication error.
Incident Report
This intervention is used to promote deep breathing to reduce the risk of atelectasis and pneumonia post-operatively.
Incentive Spirometry
This health history question must be asked before the administration of medications.
Do you have any allergies?
This part of the nursing process includes medication administration.
Implementation
This sleep disorder has been known to cause falls and car accidents.
Narcolepsy
This nursing role is responsible for initiating discharge planning in the inpatient setting.
Case Manager
This condition, common in children, is frequently controlled by bronchodilators.
Asthma
This pain scale is used to evaluate infants and non-verbal or cognitively impaired adults.
FLACC Scale
This is a standard set of orders for a common intervention set at the hospital or unit level.
Protocol
This patient population sleeps more than any other.
Newborns