Practice Flashcards
The 3 main functions of the hospital are:
- Care and treatment of the sick
- Education
- Research
The 7 types of hospitals are:
- Acute care
- Rehabilitation hospital
- Extended care
- Intermediate care
- Specialty
- Agency
- Psychiatric
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
assisting a patient to the bathroom
clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
transcribing doctors’ orders
non-clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
filing reports in patients’ charts
non-clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
feeding a patient
clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
answering the unit telephone
non-clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
changing a patients’ dressing
clinical
Is this task clinical or non-clinical?
answering a patient’s request on the intercom
non-clinical
Describe what is meant by “transcription”.
A process used to communicate the doctors’ orders to the nursing staff and other hospital departments, computers or handwritten requisitions are used.
What are the 3 primary functions of the hospital?
Care and treatment of the sick
Education
Research
List 6 responsibilities of the NUC.
- Performs all non-clinical patient care tasks for the nursing unit such as admission, discharge & transfer of a patient
- Communicating all new doctors’ orders to the patient’s nurse
- Responsible for the transcribing of doctors’ orders
- Maintaining the patients’ charts
- Placing and receiving doctors’ telephone calls to and from the doctors’ office
- Providing information to the doctors regarding procedures
List 10 different nursing units
- Orthopedics
- Emergency
- Gynecology
- Coronary Care
- Medical
- Urology
- Cardiovascular
- Pediatrics
- Neurology
- Respiratory
- Renal/Dialysis
- Cardiac Step-down
- Plastic Surgery
- Spinal Cord Unit
- Oncology
- General Surgery
- Burn Unit
- Intensive Care
- Psychiatry
- Labour, Delivery, Post-Partum
What clinical duties does the NUC perform?
None
List 7 different types of hospitals.
Acute Care Rehabilitation Extended Care Intermediate Care Specialty – BC Childrens, BC Womens Agency – BCCA Psychiatric