Fund 38-39 44,45,37 Flashcards
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What is the client unit for home care
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Any place where care and equipment can be placed
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What is the client unit at the hospital?
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Be area or hospital room
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Name 3 hospital care settings
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Hospital
LTC or ECF
Home care
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What is LTC or ECF
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Long term care or extended care facility where patients go after acute care
4
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Name a few things you can do to promote safety and comfort to clients
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Control odors Keep noise levels down Provide privacy Maintain cleanliness Explain call bell and equipment I trod ice yourself
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Side rails are considered restraints in what type of care setting
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LTC or ECF
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What are reasons side rails are used in hospitals
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Patient safety & used as an enabler for clients to turn positions
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Why is housekeeping important to the staff
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Clean client rooms upon discharge or transfer
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Name 5 provisions of nursing care
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Check physicians order Review care plan Identify client two times Explain procedures to client Document Provide privacy
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What is the provision of nursing care
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General guidelines for performing nursing procedures
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direct care providers are
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Licensed personnel
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RPT
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Registered physical therapist
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OT
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Occupational therapist
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RT
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Respiratory therapist
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CT
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Cardiac pulmonary therapist
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OB
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Obstetrics
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P
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Pediatrics
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OR
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Operating room
18
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PACU
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Post anesthesia recovery
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RR
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Recovery room
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ASU
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Ambulatory surgical unit
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UAP
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Unlicensed assisting personnel
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Medsurg
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Is surgical floor
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Ortho
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Orthopedics
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Neura
Neurology
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GU
Genital urinary
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Geri
Geriatrics
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Gyn
gynecology
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Derm
Dermatology
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Largest organ of the human body
Skin
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ER
Emergency room
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ICU
Intensive care unit
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NICU
Neonatal care unit
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PICU
Pediatrics
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SICU
Surgical care
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MICU
Medical care
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TICU
Thoracic intermediate care unit
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CCU
Coronary cardiac unit
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What are reasons for dialysis
When kidneys re malfunctioning
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CD
Chemical dependency
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CDU
Clinical decision unit
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Intermediate care unit??
Acute - care where patients get quick care and go home
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Self Care
When patients can assist themselves
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PMMR
Physical medicine rehab
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SAR
Sub acute rehab
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Hospice is
A facility where people go who have less than 6 months to live
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OPD dept
Outpatients
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Urgent care or fast track
Where they assess you quickly
48
Staff support
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Secretaries
housekeeping
Pharmacy
Medical records
Dietary
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What do quality assurance and safety committees do
Study incident reports and find ways to promote safety and accident prevention
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Factors that cause fall accidents
Improper footwear
Medications impair patients
Incontinence
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What are some type of equipment used for prevention
Alarms
Rails
Wander guards
Bed sensors
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Types of restraints
Hand mits
Rails
Bed restraints
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environmental hazards
Gasses fires or leaks
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Occupational hazards
Chemical accidents
Needles
Radiation
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Why is it important not to touch chemo mess with your hands
Can be absorbed in the skin
56
PPE
Personal protective equipment
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MSDS
Material safety data sheets -
| Instructions on chemical breakdown of material and exposure instructions
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Procedure when seeing a spill
Follow hospital procedure
Avoid and hold breathe
Get help
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Following any accident you must
File an incident report
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fruits and flowers are dangerous to patients bc
Pesticides and bacteria
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Glass products, belts neck ties are hazardous to what type of patients
Psych patients
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how do you know what to feed patients
Follow nutrition plan by dietician
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Name the two types of disasters
Internal and external
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The assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties
Triage
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Name three ways you can move clients during a disaster
Horizontally
Vertically
Completely out of the bldg
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Name three evacuation teqniques for patients in order
Ambulatory
Wheel chair
Bed ridden
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Name a few things you can do when you answer a bomb threat
Keep caller on phone
| signal for help
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What do you do when there is a fire
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RACE-
Remove
Alarm
Confine
Extinguish
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Name the three types of extinguishers
Type A - water to put out paper fires
Type B - chemical and gas fires
Type C - dry chemicals and electrical fires
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When you put out a wood or paper fire with an extinguisher what method do you use
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Pass-
Pull
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep
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Giving receiving and interpreting information through any of the 5 senses by two or more interacting people
Communication
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Name the steps of the nursing process
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ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Intervention
Evaluating
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An interaction that is helpful and healing for one or more of the participants. Makes client feels nurtured and cared for
Personal characteristics of genuiness, caring, trust, empathy, and respect from the nurse to te client
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Name the components of communication
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Sender
Message
Medium or channel
Receiver
Interaction
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Name the three types of communication
Verbal
Non verbal
Oral
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Level of illness
Acuity
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Types of verbal communication
Spoken words and written words
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What are some reasons to why someone speaks very loud
Hearing impairment
Cultural
Difficulty speaking
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What are some reasons as to why someone's would speak very soft
Cultural
Lack of self confidence
Paranoid
Nervous
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Unable to speak
Aphasia
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Types of nonverbal communication
Body language
Facial expressions
movements
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Name types of oral communication
Vocal sounds
| Grunts
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Levels of personal space
Intimate
Personal
Social
Public
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Factors that affect communication. Barriers
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Age barriers
Language barriers
Cultural
Religious
Disabilities
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A defect in or loss of the ability to speak or ability to comprehend speech & communication
Aphasia
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Difficulty in speaking or finding correct word
Expressive aphasia
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A disorder of the brain that interferes with understanding or comprehension
Receptive aphasia
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The study of personal space
Proxemics
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Haptic communication
Therapeutic touch
90
Arrival or entrance into a healthcare facility and the activities that surrounded it
Admission
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Documented set of instructions that a client executes in the event that they cannot make health care decisions on their own due to incapacitation
Advanced directing
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Two other names for advanced directive
Will
| Health care proxy
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Denotes someone you have chosen to make decisions for you in the event that you can't make them for yourself
Health care proxy
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BRP
Bathroom privileges
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Depriving a person of spirit , privacy , personality and human quality
Dehumanization
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False evidence of appearing real
Fear
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Vital signs
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Temp
Pulse
Respirations
Pulse oximetry
Blood pressure
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Name three types of weighing scales
Standing scale
Wheel chair scale
Bed scale
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VORB
Verbal order read back
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TORB
Telephone order read back
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Md must sign torb or vorb within
24 hours
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Absent with out leave
AWOL
103
Against medical advice
AMA
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If a client tries to leave AMA what is needed
A witness
105
D/C begins on the day of
Admission
106
Client departments transfers depend on
Acuity
107
before any transfer can be done you need
A doctors order
108
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Demographics
D/C plans
DX
Medical orders
Advanced directives
Flow sheets
TX
Are all found on
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Client charts
| Health records
109
Purpose of the health record
Communication between staff
Evidence
Educational purposes
Legal and financial requirement to insurance companies
110
2 types of health care records
Electronic
| Paper
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MIS
Medical information system
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EMR
Electronic medical record
