Med Surg 123 Exam 1 Flashcards
Hospitalist
Family practitioner or internist employed by hospital.
RRT
Rapid Response Team
IOM
The Institute of Medicine
QSEN
The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
KSAs
Knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Beneficence
Preventing harm and ensuring patients well being.
3 ethical principles that guide decision making.
Self determination, beneficence, and social justice.
ID
Interdisciplinary
Case management
Provides quality and cost effective services and resources to achieve positive patient outcomes.
Follow 5 rights when delegating tasks
Right task, Right circumstances, Right person, Right communication, Right supervision.
Intensivist
Physician who specializes in critical care.
GFTT
Geriatric failure to thrive
Fallophobia
Fear of falling
Presbyopia
Farsightedness
Normal creatinine clearance for women
87-107 mL/min
Normal creatinine clearance for men
107-139 mL/min
3Ds
Depression, delirium, dementia.
Dementia
Chronic progressive
Delirium
Acute short term
Fulmer SPICES framework
Sleep disorders, Problems eating or feeding, Incontinence, Confusion, Evidence of falls, Skin breakdown.
NPSGs
National Patient Safety Goals require inpatient health care settings to have fall risk assessment tools daily and fall reductions programs for high risk individuals.