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Skills
Asepsis
Medications
A & P
Abbreviations
100
This method is used to measure a nasogastric tube prior to insertion in the adult patient.
What is from the tip of the nose to the tip of the ear to the tip of the xyphoid process?
100
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that healthcare workers wash their hands for this length of time.
What is 20 seconds?
100
The 5 rights of medication administration
What are the: right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time?
100
Bleeding high in the intestinal tract causes a stool to change to this color.
What is black or tarry-colored?
100
q.i.d.
What is four times a day?
200
The length an enema tube should be inserted in an adult patient
What is 3-4 inches?
200
This type of mask must be worn when caring for a patient diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB).
What is a N-95 mask?
200
M.A.R.
What is the medication administration record?
200
The anatomical term for nostril
What is nares?
200
p.r.n.
What is as often as needed or desired?
300
The nurse's priority action when a fire occurs in a patient's room
What is rescue the patient?
300
This area of a sterile field is considered to be contaminated.
What is the outer 1 inch?
300
This route involves placing the medication under the tongue where it is dissolved.
What is sublingual?
300
Enlargement of this organ may necessitate the use of a coude catheter.
What is the prostate gland ?
300
a.c.
What is before meals?
400
The maximum time for suctioning a tracheostomy tube
What is no longer than 10-15 seconds?
400
Practices used to render and keep objects and areas free microorganisms
What is sterile asepsis or sterile techinique?
400
Ophthalmic ointment is administered into this area of the eye.
What is lower conjunctival sac?
400
These anatomical landmarks are used to locate an adult's apical pulse.
What are the left mid-clavicular line and the left intercostal space?
400
activities of daily living
What is A.D.L.?
500
Where the wheelchair is placed when preparing to transfer a stroke patient from the bed to a wheelchair.
What is on the unaffected or stronger side of the patient?
500
The term used to describe fluid that escapes from blood vessels, dead phagocytic cells, and dead tissues cells.
What is exudate?
500
The smallest measurable increment on a tuberculin syringe
What is 0.01 ml?
500
These normal breath sounds are soft in intensity and low-pitched, created by air moving through small airways.
What are vesicular breath sounds?
500
bathroom privileges
What is B.R.P.?