Nursing skills
The difficult-to-spell sphygmomanometer is a device used in healthcare settings to measure what thing?
Blood pressure
Code Blue - used when a patient isn’t breathing, has no pulse, or is unresponsive - is one of several color-based hospital emergency codes. What colour is the code used when an environmental disaster occurs?
code orange
Who was the founder of the nursing profession?
Florence Nightingale
What does the term 'ac' mean?
Before meals
Which A-medical term from the Greek word that means “ill-fed” refers to the wasting away and weakening of muscle?
Atrophy
What are the 5 steps of the Nursing Process?
Assessment, Diagonosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
After primary and secondary care, which level of healthcare service includes specialized providers like cancer treatment, dialysis, and palliative care?
Tertiary
What is the name of the sailor's disease that is caused by a vitamin C deficiency?
Scurvy
What does 'GERD' stand for?
Gastroesophageal Reflux disease
A gastrostomy is a feeding tube placed through the abdominal wall into the _________.
The stomach
Bradycardia is a heart rate lower than ___ Bpm
60 Bpm
What angle should the HOB be in fowlers position?
30 degrees
Ronald Reagan very briefly relinquished the U.S. presidency in 1985, during a surgery to remove cancerous polyps from what organ?
Colon / Large intestine
What does 'DOA' mean?
Dead on arrival
What life saving medical screening, which uses ionizing radiation, can be traced back to 1913, when German surgeon Albert Salomon performed x-rays on 3,000 mastectomies?
mammogram
Catheters are measured in ____?
French
Which A-term related to walking also applies to treating a patient on an outpatient basis instead of admitting them to the hospital?
Ambulatory
What city/town did Florence Nightingale work in? A: Birmingham, London, Manchester, Bristol
London
What does 'TKVO' mean?
To keep vein open
What 11-letter A-word means the surgical repair, unblocking, or dilation of a blood vessel to restore lost blood flow
angioplasty
The braden scale is an assessment tool used to identify risk factors for?
Ulcers
A code blue signifies that a patient is in cardiac arrest. What other color code signifies a neonatal or pediatric emergency?
Code Pink
What war was going on when Florence Nightingale was nursing?
Crimean War
What does the term 'bmr' mean?
Basal metabolic rate
Which medical specialty deals with conditions that cause inflammation in the bones, muscles, and organs?
Rheumatology