Test 1 Flashcards
What is the safest and easiest route for medications
Oral
With a swish and spit what does the patient not do
Swallow
What position should a patient be in when taking pills
Semi fowler so or side lying
What pills should you never crush
Enteric coated or time released
What does enteric coated mean
Thick coating makes it so a pill does not dissolve in your stomach but it dissolves in your bowel. Could cause ulcers or GI bleeding if not enteric coated
What should you do when giving medication to skin
Wear gloves because you do not want to absorb medication through your skin
Drops flow from _______ to __________
Inner to outer
Away from tear duct
How long should you press and hold on tear duct after giving a eye med? Why do you do this?
30 to 60 seconds do this so medicine doesn’t get into tear duct
Where do you place an eye med?
Not here _______?
Place in conjunctival sac not on cornea
How should you pull ear for a child under 2?
Anybody over 2?
2 and under- down and back
2 and over- up and back
What is important to do when giving a ear drop
Warm to at least room temperature because ears are sensitive to temperature
Once you give ear drop how long should person remain on side
2-3 minutes
When giving a nose medicine what does patient need to do
Inhale through nose as medicine enters
How should a vaginal medication be given
Supine position with knees bent insert 3-4 inches, remain on back at least 10 min, best if done overnight
How do you give a rectal medication
Side lying position, insert 4 inches, remain flat at least 5 minutes
You are about to give a rectal med why do you carry it in a cup
To prevent melting
What should be your needle selection for the arm
1”
What should be your needle selection for major muscles and average length
1 1/2 “
To take off the cap what should you do
Rock away with thumbs
What is the #1 spot for an intramuscular injection?
VG (ventrogluteal)
-side of hip, large muscle, free of major nerves
For children under 2 what is the only intramuscular site used for injections
Vastus lateralis (VL) Middle 1/3 of muscle between the trochanter and knee "Between pleat and seam"
What are the disadvantages to Vastus Lateralis (VL)
Hurts if person is athletic
Patient looks at you as you give it
What is the least preferred site for general injections,but required for most vaccinations
Deltoid site
Where should you give an injection in the arm
Center of the deltoid muscle
Where should you not give an injection? Why?
Dorsogluteal
High risk for sciatic nerve damage
When? Why? How?
Z-track injections
When? When medicine would burn or stain the skin
Why? To lock into the muscle
How? Stretch skin, give it, come out, let go
What does aspiration mean
Pulling back on the plunger
Why do you aspirate
Checking to see the tip of the needle is in a vein
What do you tell patient if syringe turns bright red
I wasn’t able to give you your med and when patient ask why say as nurses we pull back syringe and it was in vein so I pulled it back to protect you
What is difference between tier 1 and tier 2
Tier 1 is used for everybody and only certain people get tier 2
What do standard precautions include? What is not included?
Includes blood and body fluids and sweat and tears are not included
What must patient with contact isolation have?
Private room
Nurse wears a cover gown and gloves when in room
What is droplet isolation?
Focuses on diseases transmitted by large droplets that are expelled 3-6 feet
Standard precautions if nurse within 3 feet
Examples: flu, pneumonia, mumps
Must have private room
If you sneeze it goes ____ to _____ feet
3-5 feet
What are airborne precautions
Diseases that are transmitted by smaller droplets that remain in the air for longer periods of time
Examples: TB, measles, chicken pox
Private negative pressure rooms required
What is a negative pressure room
Room is like a vacuum , air flows into room but can’t flow out
What is protective (reverse) isolation
Focuses on protecting patients who are immuno compromised from coming in contact with our germs
Ex: HIV, neutropenic cancer patients
Private positive pressure
What does a positive pressure room mean
When you open door air can come out but can’t come in
What order do you put on PPE
Gown
Mask
Eye protection
Gloves
How do you protect a patients safety before giving care
Need 2 patient identifiers and check allergies
How long do you do routine hand washing?
Contaminated hand washing?
Routine- 15 seconds
Contaminated- 1 full minute
After how many hand gels must you wash hands
4
Is it ok to write 3.0 ml ?
No. No trail zeros after a whole number
You should just write 3 ml
Legal guidelines for defining nursing practice and identifying the minimum acceptance of nursing care
Standards of care
Who sets the standards if care?
Every state
Nurse who does not meet appropriate standards of care can be held liable for …
Negligence
Commitment to include client in decisions
Autonomy
Taking positive actions to help others
Beneficence
Avoidance of harm or hurt
Nonmaleficence
Being fair, taking care of clients in the order they should be cared for
Justice
Agreement to keep promises
Fidelity
aspect of reality that people consciously sense or experience. In nursing, this includes caring, self-care, and client response to stress.
Phenomenon
can be simple or complex. They can related to an object or an event as a result of individual experiences. They are ideals. They are mental images.
Concept
Communicate the general meaning of a concept. Describe the activity necessary to measure concepts.
Definitions
Are taken for granted statements that explain the nature of the concepts, definitions, purpose, relationships and structure of a theory.
Assumptions
Are broad in scope, complex, and require specification through research. Does not provide guidelines for specific nursing interventions but provides the structural framework for broad and abstract ideas related to nursing.
Grand theories
More limited in scope and less abstract
They address a specific phenomenon and reflect practices of administration, clinical interventions, or teaching.
These types of theories cross different nursing fields and reflect a wide variety of nursing care situations such as uncertainty, incontinence, social support, quality of life, and caring.
Middle-ranged theories
The first level of theory development.
They describe phenomena, speculate on why phenomena occur, and describe the consequences of phenomena.
These theories do not direct specific nursing activities but help to explain client assumptions.
Descriptive theories
Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon and predict the consequence of a specific nursing intervention.
In nursing, this type of theory designates the nursing intervention, the condition under which the nursing intervention occurs, and the consequences of the intervention.
These theories guide nursing research to develop and test specific nursing interventions.
Prescriptive theories
the study of phenomena that are difficult to quantify or categorize. The information obtained is from written transcripts or interviews
Qualitative research
The three most common types of qualitative research are :
1) Ethnographic
2) Phenomenological
3) Grounded theory.
approaches offer precise measurement. Acceptable types of research
1) Historical
2) Exploratory
3) Evaluative
4) Descriptive
5) Experimental
6) Correlational.
Quantitative research
What does PICOT stand for
Patient population Intervention Comparison Outcomes Time period
Five steps to evidence-based practice
- Ask the clinical question
- Collect the best evidence
- Critique the evidence
- Integrate the evidence
- Evaluate the practice decision or change
The most reliable and objective means of acquiring and conducting research
Scientific method
What are the 4 components of evidence-based practice
- Evidence from research, evidence-based theories, clinical experts , and opinion leaders
- Evidence from assessment of clients history and physical and available health care resources
- Clinical expertise
- Information about client preferences and values
Explain a phenomenon
Theory
What do nursing theories provide nurses with
- Perspective to view clients situations
- A way to organize data
- A method to analyze and interpret information
3 components of a theory
Concepts
Definitions
Assumptions or propositions
What are the 5 C’s
Compassion Competence Confidence Conscience Commitment
Leininger
All cultures being aware of different cultures boundaries
Transcultural caring
Watson
Being a person
Transpersonal caring
Swanson
You take the things that will help the patient become well and also have knowledge about patient, QSEN
Nurturing care
What is QSEN
Quality and safety education for nurses
Keeping patient safe enabling a patient to gain knowledge. Maintaining a belief and working with their belief system
The nurse doesn’t look at the patient as CHF in 205 , the nurse looks as them as a whole. What theory of caring is this?
Transpersonal caring
Watson
What is something the nurse could do to give the patient some control
Give patient choices
What does comorbidities mean
More or more disease that are occurring with the primary disease
Nursing process paper can also be called what
Care plan
What is adequate urine output per hour
30 ml/hour
A statement that describes the clients actual or potential response to a health problem that the nurse can treat
Nursing diagnosis
aeb
As evidenced by
Common language for understanding the clients need
NANDA
Goals must be __________
Measurable
What can physicians and advanced practice nurses do
Prescribe meds
What does a standing order mean
Carried out until cancelled by the physician