The Way to My Heart
Words That Begin With E
The Difference
Oxygen
Step-Wise Function
100
This is the control center for the heart rate.
What is medulla oblongata?
100
This, in arteries, is decreased due to hypertension.
What is elasticity?
100
This is the difference between mood and affect.
What is mood is your own perception, affect is how others perceive you?
100
This is caused by a chronic level of hypoxia
What is clubbing?
100
This is the scale use for skin assessment
What is Braden skin assessment
200
If your BP cuff was this relative to the heart, you'd get a false low reading.
What is cuff above the arm?
200
You would use this word to describe a natural mood variance.
What is euthymic?
200
This is the difference and amounts between blood volume and stroke volume.
What is blood volume is the volume ejected from the left ventricle each min (5L) and stroke volume is the volume ejected with each systole (60-70mL)
200
These symptoms are signs of a lack of oxygen to the brain in someone with a low blood pressure. (Name one)
What is dizziness, mental confusion, and restlessness?
200
These are the four levels of consciousness.
What is alert, awake, lethargic, and comatose?
300
This valve can be heard when auscultating the 2nd intercostal space, left sternal line?
What is pulmonic?
300
This is described as erythema
What is reddening of the skin?
300
This is the difference between a macule and papule.
What is macule is flat and papule is raised.
300
These are the three types of oxygen masks? (Bonus 100 if you can name rates)
What is nasal cannula, venturi mask, simple mask, and mask with resevoir?
300
These are the three steps to the chain of infection.
What is reservoir, mode of transportation, host?
400
These are all the peripheral pulses
What is brachial, Radial, Ulnar, Femoral, Popiteal, Dorsalis pedis, and posterior tibial
400
This is discoloration of skin caused by bleeding
What is ecchymosis?
400
SNS causes these changes, while PNS causes these. (Name three for each)
What is SNS- vessel constriction, increase BP, increase resistance, increase HR, increase SV PNS- opposite
400
These are four of the six possible interventions for respiratory distress.
What is turn, cascade cough, chest percussion, potural drainage, CPPD TID, Yankaer suctioning, Incentive spirometry, Elevate HOB, provide oxygen
400
These are the steps to the nursing process.
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation?
500
This is the order blood goes through the heart
What is right atrium, tricuspid, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, lungs, left atrium, mitral valve, left ventricle
500
This is the location for Erb's Point.
What is 3rd intercostal left sternum?
500
This is the difference between the S1 and S2 sounds and the valves they are tied with
What is S1 - v systole (tricuspid and mitral valves) S2- v diastole (aortic and pulmonary valves)
500
This is the word for the sudden perception of difficulty breathing.
What is dyspnea?
500
These are four of the steps taken prior to and during restraints use.
What is assess every 2 hours, use least restrictive first, every 24 hours reassess need and renew or discontinue order, RN must perform face to face eval prior restraint use, remove restraint use as soon as possible