Nursing Roles & Priorities
The first step in the nursing process
What is assessment?
Two things an RN cannot delegate
What is assessment and patient education?
What the acronym TNM stands for in cancer staging
What is Tumor, Node, Metastasis?
The most accurate way to assess pain
What is patient self-report?
The role of the PACU nurse
What is monitor airway, breathing, circulation; manage pain and post-anesthesia recovery?
The correct order of nursing process steps
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation?
A task you can delegate to a UAP (CNA)
What is assisting with bathing?
One common symptom of terminal cancer
What is unrelieved pain or weight loss?
The term for pain from tissue damage
What is nociceptive pain?
The first priority when a patient arrives post-op
What is airway assessment?
The primary goal of a nurse teaching a newly diagnosed diabetic
What is to promote self-management and reduce complications?
The purpose of a fall risk assessment
What is to identify patients at risk and prevent injury?
The focus of palliative care
What is symptom relief and quality of life?
This type of pain lasts longer than 6 months
What is chronic pain?
A sign of postoperative hemorrhage
What is a dropping blood pressure or increased heart rate?
The nurse’s role in interdisciplinary collaboration
What is coordinating care, communicating updates, and advocating for the patient?
These precautions are used for all patients
What are standard precautions?
A patient’s right under advance directives
What is the right to refuse treatment?
One common opioid side effect
What is respiratory depression or constipation?
Two key pre-op teaching points
What are incentive spirometry and early ambulation?
The correct order of Maslow’s hierarchy (starting with base)
What is physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization?
This tool helps prioritize which patient to see first
What is the ABC framework (Airway, Breathing, Circulation)?
One key sign of approaching death
What is mottled skin or Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
A scale used to assess pain in non-verbal patients
What is FLACC or Wong-Baker?
A complication from immobility after surgery
What is deep vein thrombosis (DVT)?