Patient-Centered Care
The primary goal of patient-centered care.
What is Patient Satisfaction?
The main purpose of using therapeutic touch in nursing.
What is Comfort?
The primary goal of therapeutic communication in nursing.
What is Trust?
A nurse considers a patient’s feelings and personal background before making a care decision.
What is empathy?
This type of personal protective equipment is worn to protect the nurse's hands from contaminants and chemicals during patient care.
What are gloves?
Nurses prioritize this when creating a care plan for a patient.
What are Patient preferences?
Area of care in which therapeutic touch is often used to reduce anxiety and provide reassurance.
What is Palliative care?
When a nurse repeats back what a patient has said to clarify understanding.
What is Reflecting?
This term describes a nurse’s ability to recognize and respond to the emotional needs of a patient while making clinical decisions.
What is emotional intelligence?
When administering medications, this term refers to the right dose, right patient, right route, right time, and right medication.
What are the "Five Rights" of medication administration?
One key communication skill used in patient-centered care.
What is Empathy?
An essential step for the nurse to consider in order to respect the patient’s boundaries.
What is Consent?
Type of question that encourages patients to share more details and express their feelings.
What is Open-ended question?
In clinical judgment, a nurse prioritizes this to ensure that both physical and emotional needs are addressed.
What is holistic care?
This conversion factor is used to convert kilograms to pounds, which is often necessary for calculating medication dosages.
What is 2.2?
The best initial response of a nurse when a patient expresses concerns about their treatment.
What is listening?
Therapeutic touch can help to lower this in patients by creating a sense of calm and safety.
Sitting at eye level with a patient, a nurse demonstrates this therapeutic communication technique.
What is Active listening?
When a nurse adapts their communication style to suit a patient’s emotional state, it is an example of this in clinical judgment.
What is flexibility?
This process involves verifying a patient's identity using at least two identifiers before administering care or medications.
What is patient identification?
This is essential for a nurse to show when addressing a patient’s emotional needs.
What is Compassion?
A common nonverbal technique used in therapeutic touch that involves a gentle touch on the patient’s hand or shoulder.
What is Reassurance?
The therapeutic communication technique where the nurse acknowledges a patient's feelings without offering personal opinions.
What is Validation?
Empathy in nursing helps a nurse make decisions that are clinically sound and sensitive to the patient's perspective, an approach often described by this type of care.
What is patient-centered care?
This acronym refers to a set of protocols aimed at preventing medical errors and ensuring patient safety during transitions of care.
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)?