Vital Signs
What is the normal blood pressure for an adult?
what is 120/80?
Which body position is lying flat on your back?
What is Supine?
What are infectious diseases caused by?
What is bacteria entering the body?
What are the jobs of arteries?
What is carrying freshly oxygenated blood to the body?
Who do standard precautions apply to?
What is they apply to every patient that is under your care?
True or False: the normal body temperature is 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit?
What is False! too hot!
What is Fowler's position?
What is lying on the back with the head of the bed elevated?
What is Pneumonia?
What is inflammation of the lungs?
Whose job is it to carry deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart?
What is the Veins?
What precautions are required when a patient has influenza?
What is Droplet Precautions?
What is the normal respiratory rate for adults?
What is 12-20 breaths per minute?
What is Lateral position?
What is lying on one side?
You are a PCT and your patient has high blood pressure consistently of over 130 mm Hg and a diastolic pressure that is higher than 80 mm Hg what does your patient have?
What is hypertension?
If a patient has edema should you avoid the area or puncture the area where the swelling is occurring?
What is NOPE! you should avoid any part of the body that the edema is occurring in?
When are Airborne Precautions required?
True or False: the normal pulse reading for an adult is 60-100 beats per minute?
What is True!
What is Prone position?
Which disease is diagnosed when airflow to the lungs is progressively obstructed with frequent coughing and fatigue?
What is COPD?
When performing the insertion of a needle in drawing blood what degree should the needle be from the skin?
What is about 15-30 degrees?
What precaution is required when the infections are spread by direct contact?
What is Contact Precautions?
What is reporting it to the charge nurse immediately!!
Which body system is lying on one side with knee on that side flexed and in front of the other leg with the knee extended?
What is Sim's position?
You are a PCT and your patient comes in fatigue, unexplained pain, and unexplained weight loss, you get and CT scan for them and see abnormal cell growth with tumors, what does this patient most likely have?
What is Cancer?
True or False: you should draw blood from a pink top tube before a yellow top tube
What is False! Yellow comes before pink in the order of draw?
You are PCT and you are required to go into a room of a patient that has C-Diff what precautions are required to do?
What is Contact Precautions?