This activity helps ensure patients are looked after and their needs are anticipated and met. It also gives them more chances to ask questions and stay involved in their care.
What is hourly rounding
100
The professional nurse offers care without incorporating their own values and beliefs and respects the values beliefs and background of the client.
What is Culturally Competent Care
100
The federal Law that protects the health information of patients
What is HIPAA
200
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International.
What is NANDA
200
Two identifiers to administer a medication
What is the patient name and date of birth (or FIN#)
200
The systematic review of a patient's medications, doses, routes and frequency by both the physicians and nurses in collaboration with the patient upon admission and with all transfers of care.
What is Medication Reconciliation
200
The government agency responsible for the practice of nursing in each state
What is Board of Registered Nursing
200
This person stated “It is the surgeon who saves a person’s life …….it is the nurse who helps this person live”
Who was Florence Nightingale?
300
Setting priorities, creating goals and expected outcomes that are patient-centered, and implementing nursing interventions that are patient specific.
What is Planning in the nursing process
300
The Six Rights of Medication Administration
What is Right MED, Right DOSE, Right ROUTE, Right TIME, Right PATIENT, Right Documentation
300
Pain
Positioning (turning, other)
P.O. (offer refreshment)
Potty (offer toileting)
Patient Safety (check the room for safety hazards)
What are the 5 P's that should be consistently addressed during hourly rounds?
300
A formal area of study and practice focused on a comparative analysis of different cultures and subcultures in the world with respect to cultural care, health and illness beliefs, values, and practices with the goal of using this knowledge to provide culture-specific and culture-universal nursing care to people.
What is Transcultural Nursing?
300
A nursing organization that has established a code of ethics, and standards of care for the profession, and is involved in health care policy at the state and national level.
What is American Nurses Association (ANA)?
400
NANDA approved nursing diagnosis, etiology or related factors, symptoms or defining characteristics.
What are the components of a nursing diagnosis?
400
Ensuring side rails are up, call light is in reach, bedside table or tray is in reach, and hourly rounding
What are strategies to prevent patient falls?
400
Parents of children and significant others of adults are not considered visitors. The are considered care partners. We involve them in participating in the planning and giving of care to the patient.
What is collaboration with the patient and family?
400
Aims to describe, predict and explain the phenomenon of nursing. provides the foundations of nursing practice.
Helps us to decide what we know and what we need to know. Explicitly describes nursing. Makes it possible to organize the relationship among the concepts to describe, explain, predict, and control nursing practice.
What are nursing theories?
400
Knowledge
Advocacy
Accountability
Collegiality and Collaboration
Autonomy
Ethics and Values
What are some characteristics of a professional?
500
The final step of the nursing process, which determines if the application of the process has been effective and demonstrated improvement in the clients' condition.
What is Evaluation
500
Prevent Infection, Identifies the patient correctly, Improve staff communication, Use medicines safely, Use alarms safely, Identify patient safety risks, Prevent mistakes in surgery.
What are the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals?
500
This is the term used to describe when the process that creates the expectation that everyone responds to patient call lights, regardless of whether it is their patient or not........
What is the No Pass Zone?
500
The health care provider best suited to help reduce health care disparities, fill the ever expanding need for primary care providers, care for patients in all types of care settings, and in all communities.
Who are Nurse Practitioners?
500
Nursing encompasses the prevention of illness, the alleviation of suffering, and the protection, promotion, and restoration of health in the care of individuals, families, groups, and communities