Abbreviations
BID
What is twice per day/two times per day?
You need at least this many people for a logroll
What is 2?
Patient identification should be checked in these 2 ways
What is ask patient to state name and DOB, verify with wrist band?
The order of assessment for the abdomen
What is inspect, auscultate, percuss, palpate?
Turgor may be checked in these locations
What is over the sternum or on the forearm?
PO
What is by mouth?
Gait belts should be placed in this manner
What is around the waist, 1-2 finger width space between belt and body?
Lay a patient on this side to insert a rectal suppository
What is the left side?
Bronchovesicular breath sounds
What are normal, equal inhalation and exhalation?
The heart should be auscultated in this many locations
What is 5?
qid
What is 4 times per day?
When entering an elevator, you should move the wheelchair in this manner
What is pull in, patient facing out?
The 6 rights of medication administration
What are the right patient, right medication, right route, right dose, right time, right documentation?
Rhonchi
What are low pitched snoring sounds related to thick secretions in the large airways?
Epigastric
What is the term for the location below the xiphoid process and above the stomach?
OU
What is both eyes?
If a patient is falling, do this
What is slide them down your leg using the gait belt?
This is how many times a medication should be checked prior to administering to a patient
What is 3?
These organs are found in the LUQ
What are the spleen, part of the liver, part of the pancreas, stomach, part of the small intestine, part of the large intestine?
This gait is often seen in patients with Cerebral Palsy
What is a scissors gait?
AD
What is right ear?
Times you must use soap and water rather than hand sanitizer
What are before eating, after using the bathroom, C-Diff patients, hands visibly soiled?
T or F: Sublingual medications should be chewed
What is false?
PERRLA
What is pupils equal, round, reactive to light, accommodating?
The appendix usually causes pain in this quadrant
What is the LLQ?