The Ins & Outs
Billy drank 8 ounces of chocolate milk and 4 ounces of water.
What is 360 mls?
Difficulty urinating
What is Dysuria?
Best practice to prevent infection
What is handwashing?
How often should a patient with limited mobility be repositioned
What is at least every 2 hours?
Bag placement for a patient with a Foley catheter
What is below the bladder, without dependent loops, on the frame of the bed, and not touching the floor?
Prevention strategy that minimizes harm to your back when turning a patient in bed
What is raising the bed to waist level?
What is a nonverbal facial expression sign of pain
What is frowning or grimacing?
5 vital signs taken for a full set of vitals
What is temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure?
Respirations greater then 20
What is Tachypnea
Used to protect the immediate physical safety of the patient, staff, or others
What is a restraint?
Susan drank 12 ounces of milk and ate all of her breakfast.
What is 360mls and consumed 100% of breakfast?
What is inflammation?
Precautions used with a patient who has C-Diff
What is enteric precautions?
PPE used during contact precautions
What is gown and gloves every time the room is entered?
How often should the male external condom catheter be changed
What is every 24 hours?
What should you do if you walk into the room and find a patient on the floor crying
What is stay with the patient and call for help?
What does SBAR stand for
What is Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation?
3 locations of the body tags after a patient is deceased
What is the patient's toe, bag, and belongings?
Most popular artery to take a pulse
What is radial artery?
Where should the restraint be secured
What is to the non-movable part of the bed?
Sarah had 350ml for breakfast, 480ml for lunch, 360ml for dinner, and drank 3/4 of 1000 ml pitcher of water
What is 1940 ml?
A Sudden decrease in BP when standing up
What is orthostatic hypotension?
Tuberculosis precautions
What is airborne precautions?
Collection has to be restarted if any urine is accidently thrown out during the collection process
What is a 24 urine collection?
How often should the female external Purwick catheter be replaced and perineal care completed
What is Every 8-12 hrs or when soiled?
Yellow armband, non skid slipper socks, and bed alarm on
What are fall precautions?
The sense that still functions well near the end of life
What is hearing?
How should dentures be cared for
What is like real teeth?
To be reported with stool if the patient is on bleeding precautions
What is Black or Tarry stool
What should you do if the patient has cool hands and they cannot move their fingers
What is release the restraint and notify the nurse immediately?
A restriction in a low sodium diet
What is salt?
Breathing of fluid or an food into the lungs
What is aspiration?
Wording when you put on and take off your PPE
What is Donning and Doffing?
Patient identification checked before providing care
What is patient's name and date of birth?
Best practice (order of cleaning a patient) when performing a bed bath
What is wash from head to toe and be sure to wash cleanest to dirtiest only exposing areas being washed. Always wash front side then back side.
Position used when providing oral care to the unconscious patient
What is high fowlers position with patient neck turned to the side?
Time in Epic listed as 2230
What is 10:30p.m.?
Legislation that provides patients privacy
What is HIPAA?
Term for heartbeat less then 60 beats per minute
What is bradycardia?
Minimal time frame for offering a restrained patient nutrition, hydration, or toileting
What is every 2 hours?
When would AC and HS blood glucose checks be done on a patient
What is 30 minutes before meals and at bedtime?
Bringing of one end of the large intestine out through an opening made in the abdominal wall.
What is Colostomy?
Disease resulting from the invasion of a pathogen
What is an infection?
Preferred time the UAP should document in Epic
What is in real time?
CAUTI is an abbreviation that means
What is Cather Associated Urinary Tract Infection?
Pink armband on patients Left arm
What is limb alert bracelet?
Hearing deficits, speech deficits, language barriers, inability to read/write are all example of
What is communication barriers?
UAP enters the room and discovers that the patient is lying on the floor unconscious, with no pulse, what do you do
What is Call a code blue and start CPR?
What do you do if a diabetic patient doesn't eat their meal or only nibbles at their food
What is notify the nurse?
3 types of non-violent restraints
What are the mitt restraints, non-violent restraints (soft-limb), and roll belt restraints?