NUR 1600 TEST 1
- What is a critical indicator?
Answer safety measures that every healthcare provider should perform every time with every patient
- Examples of critical indicators.
- checking provider orders before entering the patient room
- introducing yourself when you enter a patients room
- washing/sanitizing hands when you enter and leave a patient's room
- identify the patient using 2 patient identifiers (name and DOB)
- asking the patient what they would like to be called (pronouns)
- asking the patient if they have any allergies
- explaining the procedure that is going to be done
- performing appropriate assessments according according to established guide- lines
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- Define Vital Signs
Answer this is procedure that provides the nurse with vital (important) objective information (data) about the patients' health and well - being. This is critical for accurate assessment and analysis of vital sign results.
- Temperature
Answer thermoregulation
- pulse
Answer perfusion
- respirations
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perfusion/oxygenation
- O2 saturation
Answer perfusion/oxygenation
- blood pressure
Answer perfusion
- pain assessment
Answer comfort
- Numeric Pain Scale
Answer 0-10 pain scale with 10 being the worst pain you've ever been in. Take into consideration if the patient is developmentally able to rank 1-10.
- FACES Pain scale
Answer used for developmentally appropriate used for non verbal patients, you will see FACES pain skill on communication white boards in your patient rooms
- How to assess pain
Answer In order for nurses to assess pain they must use FACES and the numeric pain scale and both of these are on a horizontal scale line that
- NIPS pain scale
Answer this is a tool that is used to asses six behavioral reactions (facial expressions, cry, breathing pattern, arms, legs, state of arousal) to pain in preterm and full -term new borns
- OUCHERS pain scale
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