Vital signs
Term for a person's regular unlabored breathing?
What is Eupnea?
What assessment technique involves looking at the patient's body?
Inspection
A term that describes swelling caused by a buildup of fluids?
What is edema
PPE Stands for...
What is personal protective equipment?
As Needed
What is PRN
Vital sign that measures the number of heartbeats occurring in one minute?
What is Pulse/heart rate?
An assessment technique that involves listening to sounds produced within the body?
What is Auscultation
Another term for Anatomy and Physiology.
What are structure and function?
The act of assessment in the nursing process
What is the collecting of information about the patient.
Every four hours abbreviated.
Q4h
Medical term for a B/P of 70/20.
What is hypotension?
Assessment order that you use when you are assessing the Abdomen?
Inspect, Auscultate, Palpate/Percuss
The body's ability to maintain a relatively stable internal environment?
What is Homeostasis
Using the best available evidence, along with clinical expertise and patient preferences/values, to guide care.
What does evidence-based practice?
Abbreviation for Three times a day
What is TID?
The measurement of pressure exerted against the walls of the arteries by the blood during relaxation of the heart.
What is diastolic pressure?
The pulse behind the knee.
What is Popliteal
Pathophysiogy main objective
What is how disease or injury alters normal body structure and function.
The number one intervention to reduce the transmission of microogranisms and prevent infection.
What is proper hand hygiene?
The way a medication is administered into or onto the body?
What is a medication route?
A nurse counts 42 pulse beats in 30 seconds and determines that the rhythm is regular. What is the patients pulse rate?
What is 84 beats per min
A nurse observes a patients skin color, posture, and general appearance.
What is Inspection?
A disease process changes normal cellular or organ function, producing signs and symptoms. What field helps explain the relationship between the disease process and those altered functions?
Pathophysiology
Relates in different words the heart of what the patients said.
What is Restatement or Validation.
A medication is ordered to be given PRN. Does this mean the nurse automatically gives it at every scheduled medication time?
No. PRN means it is given as needed according to the order and patients condition.
A repetitious pattern of respirations that begin shallow, gradually increase in depth and frequency until slow and shallow, followed by a period of apnea lasting from 10 to 60 seconds?
What is Cheyne Stokesrespirations.
The acronym A.P.E.T.M. for assessing heart tones?
What is Aortic, Pulmonic, Erb's point, Tricuspid, Mitral
A state in which the body is out of balance in one or more systems.
What is Disease?
The law in each state that governs nurses' actions and addresses each level of care.
What is the nurse practice act?
Abbreviation for Clear to Auscultate.
What is CTA?