Exit Exam Flashcards
Leadership Styles and what they look like
Authoritative: more dictatorship
Democratic: everyone gets input
Laissez-faire: laid back, hands off
What are some examples of reportable incidents?
Medication errors, procedure/treatment errors, equipment-related injuries/errors, needlestick injuries, client falls/injuries, visitor/volunteer injuries, threat made to client or staff, and loss of property (dentures, jewelry, etc)
What are the five rights of delegation?
Right person, right task, right circumstances, right direction and communication, right supervision and evaluation
What is within the scope of practice of an AP?
Perform basic hygiene care and grooming, report to LPN or RN, provide assistance with ADLs (nutrition, elimination, mobility), take vitals, calculate I&O, maintain safe environment, perform noninvasive and nonsterile skills
What is within the scope of practice of an LPN?
Meets health needs for clients, cares for clients who are stable with an expected outcome, reinforce teaching, contributes to care plan through discussion of problems/findings, calculate and monitor IV flow rates, administer IVPB
What are religious practices for Buddhism? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: reincarnation, contraception is acceptable
Death: calm environment, chanting, monk delivers last rights, organ donation encouraged, cremation is common
Dietary: many are vegetarian, avoid alcohol
Health: peaceful environment to practice meditation and prayer, refuse care on holy day
What are religious practices for Catholicism? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: contraception/abortion/sterilization are prohibited, baptism is required
Death: Priest administers last rights, organ donation is acceptable, suicide may prevent burial in Catholic cemetery
Diet: abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent
Health: want a priest during hospitalization, communion and confession to aid healing, wear cross or display religious statues
What are religious practices for Christian Science? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: abortion is prohibited, home births
Death: unlikely to prolong life with medical care, organ donation discouraged
Diet: abstain from alcohol
Health: Medication and blood products avoided, healing ministers practice spiritual healing
What are religious practices for Hinduism? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: contraception is acceptable, abortion prohibited, no circumcision, child named at 10 days old
Death: Reincarnation, natural death is traditional, may want to lie on floor while dying, thread placed on neck/wrist, organ donation accepted, cremation preferred
Diet: vegetarian encouraged, abstain from beef and pork, right hand for eating and left for hygiene, fasting several days a year
Health: personal hygiene is important, future lives are influenced by how one faces illness/disability/death
What are religious practices of Islam (Muslim)? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: contraception accepted, abortion under certain circumstances, prayer in infant’s ear at birth, circumcision customary
Death: confess sins before death, placed facing Mecca (east), organ donation and autopsy sometimes okay, bathing with burial within 24 hr, cremation prohibited
Diet: Ramadan is fasting during 9th lunar month, Halal (lawful) meats from animals slaughtered during prayer ritual, Haram (prohibited) includes pork/gelatin/alcohol/fanged animals
Health: may pray 5 times a day, privacy during prayer, women are very modest and may refuse male HCW
What are religious practices of Judaism? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: abortion permitted, circumcision at 8 days old, Orthodox Jewish males not allowed in delivery room
Death: autopsy discouraged, organ donation permitted, death companion at all times, bathing and burial within 24 hr, cremation prohibited
Diet: food is kosher, milk and meat cannot be served together, pork and shellfish prohibited, fasting on Yom Kippur
Health: saving life overrides religious obligation, prayers of well being, anything to ease suffering is encouraged, Orthodox Jews refrain from electrical appliances on Sabbath
What are religious practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: contraception at discretion of couple, abortion under certain circumstances, infants not baptized
Death: organ donation and autopsy permitted, life continues after death
Diet: alcohol/coffee/tea prohibited, fasting once a month
Health: herbal remedies in addition to medical care, blessings with anointed oil
What are religious practices of Seventh-Day Adventist? (birth, death, diet, health)
Birth: abortion acceptable, opposed to infant baptism
Death: autopsy and organ donation acceptable
Diet: vegetarian encouraged, alcohol/coffee/tea prohibited
Health: medical intervention and divine healing, prayer and anointing may be performed
1 mg=? mcg
1 g=? mg
1 kg=? g
1 kg=? lbs
30 mL=? oz
1 L=? mL
5 mL=? tsp
15 mL=? tbsp
1 tbsp=? tsp
1 mg=1000 mcg
1 g=1000 mg
1 kg=1000 g
1 kg=2.2 lbs
30 mL=1 oz
1 L=1000 mL
5 mL=1 tsp
15 mL=1 tbsp
1 tbsp=3 tsp
When are peak levels usually drawn? (oral, IM, IV)
When is a trough level usually drawn?
Oral: 1-2 hours
IM: 1 hour
IV: 30 minutes
Trough: 15 minutes before next scheduled dose
