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What are intentional injuries

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Deliberate acts of ciolence or abuse that often have fatal consqiences

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What are unintentioal injuries

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Accidents

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What is the jiont commission

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An organization that accredits hosptial with the goal of pt SAFETY

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What are national pt safety goals (NPSGs)

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goals that focus on pt safety, delivery of care, and strategies to avoid bad outcome

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How are the NPSG goals met

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Standards of care

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What are the 7 NPSGs

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INDENTIY, COMMUNICAITON, MEDS, ALARMS, HAI, RISKS, SURGERY

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What are individual factors affecting safety

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Body system INTEGRITY, normal or abnormal function of the body

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What can ristricted ROM lead to

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Diminished strength, bad gait, falls

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What can immobility lead to

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Skin breaksown, pressure injuries

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What can a bad cognitive ability lead to

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Poor judgement, doesn’t understand limitations, FORGET to turn off the stove

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What can a bad sensory perception lead to

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Can’t tell if something is burning

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What can impaired perfusion lead to

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SOB, cheast pain, activity intolerance, issues with ADLs

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If a person has cardiopulmonary issues what may they have a difficult time with

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Using the toilet, bathe, sit, stand, walking

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What can an impaired ability to excrete medication lead to

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toxicity, falls

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What does prevention mean

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Pt EDICATION!!!!!

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What is lead poisoning

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Built up levels of lead in your blood

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What sysmtems does lead posioning affect

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Everything especially neuro

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What is lead posisoning most common in and why

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Children, they like to eat and like old paint that could be made with lead

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What are the S+S of lead psisoning

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Developmental delay, seizures, pica, vomiting, ab pain

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What is pica

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Eatting things that are not food

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How can you prevent lead poisoning

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Blood draws in children, updating painting

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What is carbon monoxide poisoning reffered to

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Silent killer

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What is carbon monoxide

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Colorless, oderless gas

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What does carbon monoxide do

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Binds to hemoglobin reducing the O2 supply to the body

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What are the sources of carbon monoxide
Cars, stove, gas, generators, buring wood
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What are the common scenarios of carbon monoxide posisoning
smoke inhalation, running cars is small areas, bad heating systems
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How can you prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Proper ventilation
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What are the four categories of abuse
Sexual, emotional, physical, and finacial
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What are the nursing interventions of abuse
Give RESOURCES, FILE a report for minors, or seek MANAGERS
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What are some intrinsic factors of risks for falls
Age, dementia, weakness, surgery, sensory, polypharmacy
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What do BP meds usally do
Lower BP which can lead to dizziness
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What do lasix do
Make you pee which can lead to falls
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What do antihistamines do
Make you drowsy
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What are some extrinsic factors for risks for fall fisks
Cluttered walkways, wet floor, bad footwear, bad lighting, lines
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What are some nursing interventions for preventing falls
Gait belt, yellow socks and wristband, lowest bed position, call light, no rugs, hourly rounding, nurse's station, bed alarm, lighting, orient
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What bed alarm setting would you give a pt who wants to keep leaving
Sitting on the side
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What bed alarm setting would you want to give for someone who had a spinal injury or who is vented
When they turn over
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What bed alarm setting would you give for most fall risk pts
When they leave the bed
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What should you do if a pt falls
STAY with pt, call light, yell, physical assessment, questions, get back up, post fall huddle, incident report
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Which systems are important to assess after a fall
Neurological, muscloskeltal
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What questions should you ask regaring a fall
Why is happened and if htey hit their head
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Why is it important to ask if a pt hit there head in a fall
Anticoagulant meds, get them a CT scan
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What is a seizure
Abnormal and sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain
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What is epilepsy
Chronic seizure activity due to a chronic condition
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What are some causes of seizures
Increased fever with children, alcohol withdrawl, hypoxia, hypoglycemia, ABG imbalance
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What are the 4 seizure stages
Prodromal, aura, ictus seizure, post-ictus
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What is the prodromal stage of a seizure
Symptoms that come before the actual seizure
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What is the aura stage of a seizure
Warning signs right before the siezure, weird smell or taste, altered vision, dizzy
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Do all pts experience an aura before a seizure
No
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What is the ictus seizure stage of a seizure
The actual seizure
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What is a status epilepticus
EMERGENCY, seizure that lasts more that 5 mins
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What is the post-itcus stage of a seizure
Recovery
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What are some symptoms after a seizure
Headache, injury, confusion, tired, may have lost control of their bodily functions
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What do you need at the bedside of a seizure pt
Oxygen, airway, suction, padding, saline lock (patency)
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What is the patency of a line
Once a shift you check the area around the IV and flush it to see if there is blood return
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What are the nursing inerventions for a seizure
STAY with the pt, call for help, 4 side rails up with padding, lateral position, lowest bed setting, pillow, maintain airway, note duration and time of seizure
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Should you put anything in the mouth of a pt who is seeing
ONly when their airway is compromised
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What is a seizure called when it lasts more than 5 minutes
Status epileptics
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What should you not do for a seizing pt
Restrain them, force the jaw open, move the pt, leave the pt
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What should you do if a pt starts seizing while abulating
Leg slide to the floor, pillow, remove furniture, privacy, lateral side
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What are the post-seizure nursing interventions
Mental status, O2, explain what happened, comfort, document
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What should you document after a seizure
Precipitating bahaviors, description of the event (injuries, length, aura, postical state)
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What are restraints
Chemical, enviromental, or physcial devices that restrict FREEDOM of movement
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What does EBP says about restrants
Reduce the NEED and use LESS restrictive measures first
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When do you use restrants
Immediate threat of harm to self or others
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What should restraints not be
Punishment, convenience, intergere wiht treatment
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What should restrants be
Less restrictive, fit, quick release knot
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What are some less invasice measures
Orient, nurse station, family, min stimuli, distractions, agitation, basic needs, sitter, cover tubes
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What are the requirments for restrainsts
Have a HCP order, face-to-face assessment of pt, or within an hour, must include reason, type, location, and time, reorder Q24
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Are PRN orders for restrants allowed
No
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What type of restraints can you use for overly combative pts
Chemical sedatives
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What type of restrant is a posey bed
An envriomental restraints for people with intellectual disabilityes
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What are the types of physical restraints
Vest, mittens, belt, wirst
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What restraint should you use for pts in a wheelchair
vest/jacket
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What restraint should you use for pts who are scratching at wounds
Mitten
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What restraint should you use to keep pts from falling out of bed
Belt
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What restraint should you use to stop pts from pulling ESSENTIAL lines
Wrist
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What are the classifications of wrist restraints
2 point and 4 point
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What are some nursing interventions for restraints
Assess skin and need for restrants, offer food and fluids, elimination, ROM
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Can you tie a quick release knot to the bedrail
NO
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What ia a major cause of death for all ages
Fire in the home
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What should you educate your pts about a home safety plan
Numbers, exitinguisher, alarms, exit plan, stop drop and roll
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What are some oxygen tank safety things to know
No smoking isgn, store away from HEAT, only SOTTON, on a RACK, WATER based lubricants for the nares
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What does race stand for
Rescue, alarm, contain, extinguish
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How can you contain a fire
Close doors, turn off O2
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What are you going to do during a fire if your pt is on life-support
Bag-valve mask
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What does PASS stand for
Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep

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