Medications
A nurse re-assess one hour after administering a medication for pain.
What is a pain reassessment?
An LVN directs a PCT do these certain tasks for these certain patients.
What is assigning tasks.
What is a care plan?
The preferred IV catheter size for a patient who is to receive a blood transfusion?
What is a 20 gauge IV?
Every 24 hours
What is How often must a patient receive a full assessment by an RN?
A blood product that is NOT blood and can not be administered by an LVN.
What is albumin?
LVNs delegating tasks to other licensed personnel.
What is beyond scope of practice.
Only an RN can administer this human product to a patient if the Hemoglobin is below 7 g/dl and the Physician has placed an ordered for it.
What is administering blood?
The type of venous access line an LVN discontinue.
What is a peripheral IV?
This nurse can perform a suicide reassessment
What is an RN?
A nurse orders this lab to be drawn every six hours as per protocol while a patient is on a heparin drip.
What is APTT ?
What is verifying blood.
A charge nurse must only assign these types of patients to an LVN?
What is A stable patient with a predictable outcome.
Suctioning a trach cannula in a patient should not exceed this amount of time.
What is 10 seconds.
Initial assessment, initial plan of care, initial teach/education
What is documentation that is beyond the LVNs scope of practice?
Only an RN can adjust the dose of medication drips.
What is titrate?
LVNs can vote in these certain committees that make judgments about the quality of nursing care provided by peers, as measured against professional standards of practice.
What is a peer review committee?
An LVN has a new admission. Before administering medications, the LVN must first perform this task.
What is a focused assessment?
Only this license type of nurse can perform a dressing change on a medi-port access line?
What is an RN?
Complete head to toe assessments for patients in odd number rooms and new patient assessments
Who is the night RN?
The LVN administers this medication through this venous access port that goes all the way to the heart of near the heart and is either subclavicular or at the brachial area of the arm.
What is a PICC/Central line
This Nursing model is utilized by Methodist Metropolitan.
What is Primary nursing model?
Before the RN performs the initial head to toe assessment, the LVN can perform these admission requirements.
What is a Med reconciliation, vaccines, first point of contact, health history, safety/risk/regulatory, lines and drains.
A patient is staged with an existing wound that is down to the skeletal tissue.
What is a stage 4 wound?
Neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and peripheral vascular.
What body systems are included in an LVN multi-system focused assessment?