Vital Signs
What is the normal respiration range?
What is 12-20 breaths/min?
What is always our first intervention for a care plan?
What is an assessment action?
What data is collected in the assessment portion of the nursing process?
What is subjective and objective data through patient interview and physical assessment?
True or False: We always use a trailing zero.
What is false? We never use a trailing zero.
True or False: Subjective data includes blood pressure, chest x-ray, and physical assessment findings.
What is false? Subjective data is what the patient tells you. There pain is 8/10 in their right ankle.
What is the normal pulse range?
What is 60-100 beats/min?
What is always the last intervention for our care plan?
What is evaluation of our interventions?
What is the reason behind using the nursing process?
What is it allows us to provided a clear and organized approach to patient centered care that is safe and effective?
A nurse is preparing to administer amlodipine 10 mg. Available is amlodipine 5 mg. How many tablets would the nurse administer?
What is 2 tablets?
What is considered objective data?
What is findings during physical assessment (what you see, feel, or hear) including labs, imaging, and vital signs.
What is the range for oral adult temperature?
What is 98 F-98.6 F?
True or False: Implementation is the last step in our care plan.
What is false? The last step is evaluation, did we meet our goal.
What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical diagnosis?
What is a nursing diagnosis is used to determine a patient's response to interventions set in place by a nurse while a medical diagnosis is identifying and naming the disease process? An example is risk for falls while the medical diagnosis is orthostatic hypotension.
A nurse is preparing to administer LR 500 mL in 5 hours. What mL/hr will the IV pump be set to?
What is 100 mL/hr?
What does AIDET stand for?
What is the normal range for blood pressure?
What is less than 120 mmHg/less than 80 mmHg?
What are we using to create our nursing diagnosis?
What is the NANDA list?
We have a patient who is at risk for falls. What could be included in our plan to reduce the risk for falls?
What is use of a bed alarm, gait belt, 2 person transfers, bed checks, allowing the patient to sit and stand for a minute prior to walking or bending, bed rails are up, and the bed is in the lowest position when leaving?
A nurse is preparing to administer 500 mL D5W over 8 hours. The drop factor is 60 gtt/mL. Calculate the number of drops per minute.
What is 63 gtt/min?
What does SBAR stand for and when do you utilize it?
What is the range for rectal adult temperature?
What is 99 F-99.6 F?
What kind of goal should we have for our patient?
What is SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timeline)?
What is the acronym for the steps in the nursing process and what does it stand for?
What is ADPIE?
Assessment
Diagnosis
Plan
Implementation
Evaluation
A nurse is preparing to administer 750 mL NS over 5 hours. The drop factor is 10 gtt/mL. Calculate the drops per minute?
What is 25 gtt/min?
How would you round 58.2 gtt/min? How would you round 63.8 gtt/min?
What is 58 gtt/min and 64 gtt/min?