Legal Values Ethics
An attempt or threat to touch another person unjustifiably
What is Assault
There are 5 components to the nursing process. What are they?
What is Assessing, Diagnosing, Planning, Implementing and Evaluating ?
Your client scored 10 pts on the Braden Scale. What does this indicate?
What is High Risk for Skin Breakdown?
An abrupt onset of reversible disturbances of consciousness attention, cognition and perception that develop over a short period of time is?
Acute Confusion/Delirium
A surface scrape either unintentional or intentional is known as _______?
what is abrasion?
When people are ill they are frequently unable to assert their rights as they would if they were healthy.
An _________ is one who expresses and defends the cause of another
What is an Advocate?
A care plan tailored to meet the unique needs of an individual client is known as?
What is an Individualized Care Plan
You begin your shift and a c.n.a. comes to you and says your client fell. What is the first thing you should do?
What is Assess for injury
Your client has a clouding of the lens in the eye what is this condition called
What is cataract
What is the nurses first line of defense in preventing the spread of infection
What is hand washing
According to the Code of Ethics for Nurses _____ means "answerable to oneself and other for one's own actions
What is Accountability
Assisting a client with ambulation is an example of what?
What is a Nursing Intervention?
The Chair of the Nursing Department is?
Who is Mrs. Barb Diederick
Your client has hearing loss in his right ear, what is the best way to communicate with him?
What is Speak in his left ear
When completing Perineal Cares on your female client which way do you wash?
Front to back
Actions to bring about the client’s death directly with or without client consent.
What is Active Euthanasia
A three part nursing Diagnosis includes what?
What is Problem, Etiology (r/t), signs and symptoms (aeb)
PMI stands for
Point of maximal Impulse
Your client has chronic confusion that has developed slowly over time. This is called?
Dementia/Alzheimer
How do you as the nurse know whether a dressing change should be sterile or clean?
What is Check the physicians orders
A nurse who accidentally gives an additional and lethal dose of a narcotic can be accused of?
What is Manslaughter?
When referring to writing a goal the acronym “SMART” stands for what?
What is Specific, Measurable, Appropriate, Realistic, Time Frame
The LIFE values of NDSCS are
What is Learning, Integrity, Flexibility, Excellence
Your client has decreased feeling in his feet secondary to his diabetes. What should you educate him on regarding self care.
What is check feet daily
Thinking about the chain of infection; If the reservoir is the respiratory tract, what is one portal of exit?
What is nose or mouth