Communication & Emotional Intelligence
This nonverbal communication element includes posture, facial expression, and body movement.
What is body language?
Moist desquamation typically occurs between this dose range.
What is 4000–6000 cGy?
When lifting a patient, you should keep your back stationary and lift using these muscles.
What are your legs?
This is the most important method for preventing the spread of infection.
What is hand washing?
Drugs used to relieve pain without loss of consciousness are called this.
What are analgesics?
Listening with this allows the therapist to truly understand a patient's feelings.
What is empathy?
A decrease in circulating red blood cells is known as this.
What is anemia?
This condition is defined as a sudden drop in blood pressure when standing.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This term describes a person who carries a microorganism but shows no illness.
What is a carrier?
Transdermal patches must not be worn in this imaging modality due to metal backing.
What is MRI?
Understanding one’s own emotions and those of patients and families is called this.
What is emotional intelligence?
Persistent pain lasting longer than 3 months is classified as this.
What is chronic pain?
When rolling a patient, always move the patient in this direction.
What is toward you?
This agency mandates respiratory protection for TB.
What is OSHA?
This is the preferred location for central venous line tips.
What is the superior vena cava?
This is a multidimensional tool used to measure pain.
What is the Brief Pain Inventory?
This condition is commonly associated with appetite loss, weight loss, and muscle wasting.
What is cachexia?
This device must be placed behind a patient when doing CPR on a bed.
What is a backboard?
These are the five major routes of disease transmission.
What are airborne, droplet, contact, vector-borne, and common vehicle?
Most adverse reactions to ionic iodinated contrast agents are caused by this.
What is high osmolality?
These two emotional responses are the most common among cancer patients.
What are anxiety and depression?
Nonspecific side effects include fatigue, sleep changes, and weight loss, but not this symptom.
What is pain?
The safest action when a hydraulic lift patient arrives without a sling is this.
What is return the patient to the floor to be placed on a sling?
Following a needle stick, the first step is this.
What is wash with soap and water?
This MRI contrast agent is commonly used.
What is gadolinium-DTPA?