Elements included in vital signs - ✔✔ -temperature, pulse, respiration, BP, oxygen sat, pain
nursing process - ✔✔
... [Show More] -assessment
-diagnosis
-outcome
-planning
-implementation
-evaluation
-ADOPIE
important factor to listening - ✔✔ -interpreting and understanding what a patient means
UAP - ✔✔ -unlicensed assitive -personnel/certified nursing assistant
Appropriate tasks for a CNA/UAP - ✔✔ -changing bed linens
-I/O for a patient on fluid
restrictions
-feeding a patient
-brushing a patient's teeth
-bathing
-toileting
-changing briefs
Inappropriate tasks for CNA/UAP - ✔✔ -changing IV bags
-administering meds
-starting an IV
-drawing blood
-injections
I/O - ✔✔ -intake and output: how much fluid is going into a patient and how much is going out
Requirements of an adult patient in soft wrist restraints - ✔✔ -check peripheral pulse in restrained extremity
-evaluate the patient's need for toileting
-offer fluids
-inspect skin under restraint
amount of time a patient is checked on in leather restraints - ✔✔ -every 15 mins
amount of time a patient is checked on in soft restraints - ✔✔ -every 2 hrs
risk for patients on prolonged bed rest - ✔✔ -pressure ulcers, contractures, decrease in peristalsis, osteoporosis, impaction and constipation, muscle atrophy, slowed metabolism
when nurse is required to wear a mask - ✔✔ -patient is on droplet precautions
-when assisting with insertion of a central line catheter
-when assisting with aerosol-respiratory procedure suction
most effective way to control transmission of infection - ✔✔ hand hygiene
STUDY MED MATH - ✔✔ STUDY MED MATH
braden scale - ✔✔ revaluates a patient's risk for skin breakdown
brushing a patient's teeth requires ____ precautions - ✔✔ glove
assessment of Nursing Process is defined as - ✔✔ -vital signs and symptoms are obtained
immunity - ✔✔ -the body's ability to defend itself against bacteria and viruses
PRN - ✔✔ as needed, still has parameters
-the one acronym not used for restraints
STAT - ✔✔ immeadiately
BID - ✔✔ twice a day
PO - ✔✔ by mouth
best way for a nurse to verify a patient's identity - ✔✔ check ID wrist band (name and birthdate)
EATT M&Ms acronym, CNA's cannot - ✔✔ -evaluate
-assess
-teach
-treat (Manage and maintain)
- ✔✔
living will - ✔✔ instrument in which a dying person makes wishes known
power of attorney - ✔✔ person designated by the patient to make health care decisions for the patient if the patient becomes unable to make his or her own decisions
nightingale - ✔✔ -First practicing epidemiologist
-Organized first school of nursing
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
-Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
-Environment as the focus of nursing care
-Grand theory
pepleu - ✔✔ (Interpersonal Theory)
-Focus on interpersonal relations between nurse, patient, and patient's family
-Phases: preorientation, orientation, working, resolution
-Middle-range theory
leninger - ✔✔ (Culture Care Theory)
-Theory of cultural care diversity and universality
-Integrates patients' cultural traditions, values and beliefs into care plans
-Middle-range theory
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(Transcultural Caring
Caring)
-Caring helps an individual or group improve a human condition.
-Caring helps to protect, develop, nurture, and sustain people.
swanson - ✔✔ (Theory of Caring)
-Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
-States that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice, maintaining beliefs, being with (→ 5 processes of caring: knowing, being with, doing, enabling, maintaining belief)
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watson - ✔✔ (Transpersonal Caring)
-Promotes healing and wholeness
-Rejects the disease orientation to health care
-Places care before cure
-Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
orem - ✔✔ (Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory)
-Focuses on patient's self care needs
-Goal is for patient to manage his or her health problems.
-Grand theory
LPN - ✔✔ -has a nursing license
-give medications (PO and injections)
-assessment
-patient care
-has to be delegated tasks
only position that can delegate tasks to UAPs, patient techs, LPN - ✔✔ Registered Nurses
what an LPN cannot do - ✔✔ manage IV pushes or drips
federal standard for time a restraint can be ordered - ✔✔ 24 hrs
the one restraint you can use but not need an order for - ✔✔ all 4 rails up
cost management - ✔✔ -reducing cost to hospital and patient
-controls "free reign", creates a decision making process [Show Less]