Vital Signs
This vital sign measures the force of blood against the walls of the arteries.
What is blood pressure?
This is the most important way to prevent the spread of infection in healthcare settings.
What is hand hygiene?
This device may be used to assist a patient who has difficulty walking safely and to prevent falls.
What is a gait belt?
This federal law protects the privacy and confidentiality of a patient's health information.
What is HIPAA?
This is what you should begin immediately when an adult is unresponsive and not breathing normally.
What is chest compressions?
This is the normal resting respiratory rate for a healthy adult.
What is 12-20 breaths/minute?
These precautions are used for every patient, regardless of their diagnosis or infection status.
What are standard precautions?
What is bed in lowest position, wheels locked, call light in reach?
The two identifiers to confirm a patient's identity.
This is the recommended rate for adult chest compressions during CPR.
What is 100–120 compressions per minute?
When measuring an oral temperature, the thermometer is placed in this location.
What is under the tongue?
A patient with suspected tuberculosis requires this type of transmission-based precaution.
What are airborne precautions?
How we are able to tell a patient is a fall risk. List atleast two.
Yellow socks, fall risk wristband, sign outside of their room or in their chart.
When providing personal hygiene, this should be maintained as much as possible to protect the patient's dignity.
What is privacy?
When this device arrives during CPR, you should turn it on and follow its prompts.
What is an AED?
When a patient's blood pressure is 88/54 mmHg, it is considered this.
What is hypotension?
A patient with suspected C. difficile infection requires these precautions in addition to Standard Precautions.
What are contact precautions?
A patient suddenly becomes weak while walking with you. Your safest response is to do this rather than trying to hold the patient upright.
What is safely lower the patient to the floor while protecting them from injury?
This principle means performing only tasks for which you have been trained, deemed competent, and authorized to perform.
What is working within your scope of practice.
For adult CPR with two rescuers, this is the compression-to-ventilation ratio.
What is 30:2?
A patient becomes dizzy when standing, and their blood pressure drops significantly compared with when they were lying down. This is called this.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This is the proper way to wash your hands. Demonstrate and state for how many seconds.
20 seconds.
A patient who has difficulty swallowing is at increased risk for this potentially serious complication.
What is aspiration?
Turning our patients at an increased frequency is to prevent what complication.
What is pressure ulcers?
After an AED delivers a shock for a shockable rhythm, you should immediately do this before the AED reassesses the rhythm.
What is resume CPR, beginning with chest compressions?