Wound Care
Closed, discolored wound caused by blunt trauma.
What is Contusion
Four major goals of nursing.
What Is...
A patient who does not have a fever is described using this term.
What is afebrile?
Gives you a numerical rating for each patient's risk for falls.
What is Morse fall fall scale?
Name four pulse sites you are expected to practice locating.
Any four:
Treats edema r/t heart failure.
What is heart failure?
Older, Emaciated, Incontinent, Immobile, Impaired Circulation/Chronic Metabolic (IE:Diabetes)
What are patients who are prone to the development of pressure injuries
Teaching, advocating, communicating, coordinating care, counseling, leading, and researching are examples of these
What are roles of the registered nurse?
An abnormally fast heart rate is called this.
What is tachycardia?
Place the patient near the nurses' station, use the bed or chair alarm, use non-skid socks, and put the bed in the lowest position.
What are the strategies used to prevent falls?
Which pulse is assessed directly over the heart?
What is the apical pulse?
Sulfonylurea medication that decreases blood sugar levels in type 2 Diabetes.
What is Glipizide?
Scale that uses Sensory Perception, Moisture, Activity, Mobility, Nutrition, Friction & Shear.
What is the Braden Scale
Have the CNA take your vital signs when they're stable.
What is delegating?
An abnormally slow heart rate is bradycardia.
Bradycardia
Guidelines to follow while restraints are in place.
What is... every 30-minute check, every 2-hour assessment, offer nutrition, assist with toileting, change position, assess extremities for pulses and skin integrity, help with ambulation, and stay with the patient while off restraints.
Aortic Valve, Pulmonic Valve, Erbs Point, Trucuspid Valve and Mitral Valve. (All People Eat Taco Meat)
What is assessing heart tones?
When Hydrochlorothiazide is working.
What is stable is blood pressure.
Full thickness skin tissue loss, deep tissue necrosis that involves muscle, fascia, tendon, joint capsule, and sometimes bone.
What is stage 4 Pressure Injury.
What examination must a nursing-program graduate pass to become licensed as a registered nurse?
What is the NCLEX-RN?
Match the terms:
with:
Legally if it wasn't charted.
What is "Not charted, Not done"
Inspection, Auscultation, Palpation and Percussion
What is, how do you assess the Abdomen?
While on Digoxin, if . you have low potassium <3.0
What is the possibility of toxicity?
Infection, age, lifestyle, nutrition, venous stasis, oxygenation, medications, and tension at wound edges.
What is complications of wound healing.
A nurse graduated several years ago but continues taking courses to stay current on new techniques, knowledge, legal issues, and ethical issues. What part of nursing education is this?
What is continuing education (CE)
Dyspnea
What is difficulty breathing?
Drawing a line through a charted sentence
What is charting an error.
Pupils equal round react to light and accommodation.
What is PERRLA?
Atebolol treats this kind of ailment.
What is angina, Hypertension, and post-myocardial infarction?