Nursing Math
You are teaching your patient's parent to give Tylenol. You need to give 15 ml of medication. You are going to tell the mother to give ______ teaspoons.
What is 3 teaspoons or 1 tablespoon?
This is a scale that is used to determine patients that are at risk for skin breakdown.
What is the Braden Scale?
You are taking vital signs and need to determine the client's oxygen level.
What is a pulse oximeter?
A confident belief in something for which there is no proof or evidence.
What is Faith?
Belief that everyone should conform to your own belief system.
What is cultural imposition?
How many Kg are in 99lbs?
45kg
The 5th vital sign.
What is pain?
Glove, gowns, mask, N95, hairnet, booties
What are personal protective equipment (PPE)?
A person who denies the existence of a higher power.
What is an atheist?
Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations.
What is culture?
10:00 a.m. in military time.
What is 01000 or 1000?
(O-ten hundred or ten hundred)
An event that occurs in humans in a 24-hour interval.
What is a circadian rhythm?
Used to assess PERRLA.
What is a pen light?
Gives meaning and purpose to existence, enhances life, and is life sustaining.
What is life-affirming?
Large group of people who are members of a larger cultural group.
What is subculture?
1 tsp = _______ ml
What is 5?
Primary source of heat in the body.
What is metabolism?
Used to assess cardiac, respiratory, and intestinal state.
What is a stethoscope?
Ingredient in life responsible for a positive outlook.
What is hope?
Minorities living within a dominant group lose characteristics that made them different.
What is cultural acculturation or assimilation?
1 oz = ____ ml
30 ml
List 2 symptoms that can be seen in patients with dementia.
What are mental changes, irritability, confusion, disorientation, aggression, depression, restlessness, memory loss, falling, hallucination, paranoia, anxiety, loneliness?
Spell the medical term for a manual blood pressure cuff.
What is s-p-h-y-g-m-o-m-a-n-o-m-e-t-e-r (sphygmomanometer)
Need for meaning and purpose. Need for love and relatedness. Need for forgiveness.
What are the three spiritual needs?
What is stereotyping?