NUR209 EXAM 1 2026 COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ Nurse role for safety measures. Answer: Accidents are
preventable, water spilling, confusion in patients who do not leave
alone, and assisting patients that can not walk. Use critical thinking
skills as the nurse. If we see something as the nurse we must say
something. Speak up in unsafe environments because it can prevent
injuries.
Between 5 and 7 mins sees the physician in a 24 hour period. The
nurse is responsible for physical assessment, eating, drinking, fever,
blood pressure, using the bathroom. 11 hrs and 53 mins and at night
the full 12 hrs. You have your senses and equipment and your
responsibility to notice changes in the patient's status and watch
their safety.
Our job is to make sure that the patient assigned to us is provided
safe, correct, and proper care. Safety is the number one goal.
◉ Safety in older adults. Answer: fall prevention, understand what
we are telling them, steadiness, older adult physical comp decreases.
Are they cognitive - something to put something together to create
something else.
Home safety - throw rugs biggest injury factor or rug runners those
rugs that are not taken down can cause older people to fall and have
a hip injury. The artery in the hip can break the hollow organ to
empty its displaced fracture, can cause sepsis and can lead to death.
,50 percent of people with a hip injury die in the first year. If you
fracture the femur bone marrow gets exposed cause fat globules
when going back to the inferior vena cava heart will have fat in it. As
it goes into the lungs and causes a pulmonary clot (Embolism) a fat
clot. 50 percent of patients die from pneumonia. Cant move blood
will not be flowing correct, heart will lower, blood will pool and clot
can go to lungs and cause pulmonary blood clot. The vessels will get
smaller and will kill the heart muscle. go to coronary arteries
◉ Safety Issues. Answer: Radiation can cause cancer, high freq
electrical magnetic shortwaves gamma rays, and many health
related effects related to radiation. Thyroid is super sensitive to
radiation. Use to protect against cancer. Chest XRays 1 shot, CAT
scan - 1 shot times the amount of radiation of 100 x ray. As a nurse
you must protect yourself also because it changes the DNA sequence
change in cellular seq. Make sure the patient is getting safety
protocols.
Nurses are exposed to radiation a little bit each time. If it's a child
only xray if the child starts to show neurological decline. Chances are
the child could have a concussion, confront my physical assessment
same result whether or not CAT scan is used. If the child is not
waking up, confusion.
◉ Risk beneficial ratio - Is there a risk with radiation treatment? Y.
Answer: Yes, it can cause cancer. Repeated CAT scans increase your
risk of getting cancer. Its more risky to get a CAT scan. The risk is too
high for the benefit its going to have. Ex lung cancer chemo is poison.
High risk of taking poison but the benefit outweighs the risk of
,taking it for better benefits. Ex child falls off bunk bed the risk
outweighs the benefit of getting a CAT scan. Put a tattoo to match the
radiation beams to that area. Chemo kill both the bad and the good
cells.
◉ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Answer:
Entire purpose is to make sure workplace safety protocols are
followed. Body of government to investigate health and safety issues
in a health envo.
ABC extinguisher used for any fire extinguisher paper, wood, cloth,
flannel liquids, electrical equipment, appliances, and tools. Grease
kitchen fires, paint, and gases. Ex Anesthesia. ABC use on animal
grease.
Burns with children's hot water, the new house always looks at the
thermostat on the boiler. Certain temp safe for children.
◉ Restraints. Answer: You have to as the nurse have a physicans
order to put restraints on a patient. You may not as the nurse do it
without an order. Pozzies - Vests Wrist restraints, for prisoners-
leather restraints If violent will have to be in four point leather
restraints to the bed and handcuffs for prisoners. Handcuffs are
judicial restraints under the property of the ward or the state.
Patients are not prisoners. No leg restraints for patients. Four point
lether restraints for prisoner must be order.
Wrist restraints patients are becoming combative, usually in older
adults, who can become violent. Or dig into you from the nails.
Punchers and scratchers. Mits - these are people who pull out IVS,
, NQ, Catheters so they can not grasp anything. Fine motor skills are
not used.
◉ The nurse is assessing clients for risk factors in the workplace.
Which clients would be at risk for injury due to the environment of
the workplace? Select all that apply.. Answer: gardener who mows
and places fertilizer on lawns
nursing assistant who lifts clients in a nursing home
worker who operates equipment in an automobile assembly plant
◉ A nurse has applied restraints to a client as ordered at 9 p.m. The
nurse adheres to the guidelines for restraint use by removing them
at which time?. Answer: 11pm
◉ A nurse is providing an in-service program for staff on fire safety
and is reviewing the types of fire extinguishers available. Which
class of fire extinguisher would the nurse describe as appropriate
for use on an electrical fire?. Answer: Class C
A Class C fire extinguisher is used for electrical fires. A Class A
extinguisher is used for paper, wood, or cloth fires. A Class B
extinguisher is used for flammable liquid or gas fires. A Class D
extinguisher is used for combustible material fires.
◉ Autoclaving. Answer: The most effective method of sterilization is
moist heat, using steam under pressure
GUIDE AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ Nurse role for safety measures. Answer: Accidents are
preventable, water spilling, confusion in patients who do not leave
alone, and assisting patients that can not walk. Use critical thinking
skills as the nurse. If we see something as the nurse we must say
something. Speak up in unsafe environments because it can prevent
injuries.
Between 5 and 7 mins sees the physician in a 24 hour period. The
nurse is responsible for physical assessment, eating, drinking, fever,
blood pressure, using the bathroom. 11 hrs and 53 mins and at night
the full 12 hrs. You have your senses and equipment and your
responsibility to notice changes in the patient's status and watch
their safety.
Our job is to make sure that the patient assigned to us is provided
safe, correct, and proper care. Safety is the number one goal.
◉ Safety in older adults. Answer: fall prevention, understand what
we are telling them, steadiness, older adult physical comp decreases.
Are they cognitive - something to put something together to create
something else.
Home safety - throw rugs biggest injury factor or rug runners those
rugs that are not taken down can cause older people to fall and have
a hip injury. The artery in the hip can break the hollow organ to
empty its displaced fracture, can cause sepsis and can lead to death.
,50 percent of people with a hip injury die in the first year. If you
fracture the femur bone marrow gets exposed cause fat globules
when going back to the inferior vena cava heart will have fat in it. As
it goes into the lungs and causes a pulmonary clot (Embolism) a fat
clot. 50 percent of patients die from pneumonia. Cant move blood
will not be flowing correct, heart will lower, blood will pool and clot
can go to lungs and cause pulmonary blood clot. The vessels will get
smaller and will kill the heart muscle. go to coronary arteries
◉ Safety Issues. Answer: Radiation can cause cancer, high freq
electrical magnetic shortwaves gamma rays, and many health
related effects related to radiation. Thyroid is super sensitive to
radiation. Use to protect against cancer. Chest XRays 1 shot, CAT
scan - 1 shot times the amount of radiation of 100 x ray. As a nurse
you must protect yourself also because it changes the DNA sequence
change in cellular seq. Make sure the patient is getting safety
protocols.
Nurses are exposed to radiation a little bit each time. If it's a child
only xray if the child starts to show neurological decline. Chances are
the child could have a concussion, confront my physical assessment
same result whether or not CAT scan is used. If the child is not
waking up, confusion.
◉ Risk beneficial ratio - Is there a risk with radiation treatment? Y.
Answer: Yes, it can cause cancer. Repeated CAT scans increase your
risk of getting cancer. Its more risky to get a CAT scan. The risk is too
high for the benefit its going to have. Ex lung cancer chemo is poison.
High risk of taking poison but the benefit outweighs the risk of
,taking it for better benefits. Ex child falls off bunk bed the risk
outweighs the benefit of getting a CAT scan. Put a tattoo to match the
radiation beams to that area. Chemo kill both the bad and the good
cells.
◉ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Answer:
Entire purpose is to make sure workplace safety protocols are
followed. Body of government to investigate health and safety issues
in a health envo.
ABC extinguisher used for any fire extinguisher paper, wood, cloth,
flannel liquids, electrical equipment, appliances, and tools. Grease
kitchen fires, paint, and gases. Ex Anesthesia. ABC use on animal
grease.
Burns with children's hot water, the new house always looks at the
thermostat on the boiler. Certain temp safe for children.
◉ Restraints. Answer: You have to as the nurse have a physicans
order to put restraints on a patient. You may not as the nurse do it
without an order. Pozzies - Vests Wrist restraints, for prisoners-
leather restraints If violent will have to be in four point leather
restraints to the bed and handcuffs for prisoners. Handcuffs are
judicial restraints under the property of the ward or the state.
Patients are not prisoners. No leg restraints for patients. Four point
lether restraints for prisoner must be order.
Wrist restraints patients are becoming combative, usually in older
adults, who can become violent. Or dig into you from the nails.
Punchers and scratchers. Mits - these are people who pull out IVS,
, NQ, Catheters so they can not grasp anything. Fine motor skills are
not used.
◉ The nurse is assessing clients for risk factors in the workplace.
Which clients would be at risk for injury due to the environment of
the workplace? Select all that apply.. Answer: gardener who mows
and places fertilizer on lawns
nursing assistant who lifts clients in a nursing home
worker who operates equipment in an automobile assembly plant
◉ A nurse has applied restraints to a client as ordered at 9 p.m. The
nurse adheres to the guidelines for restraint use by removing them
at which time?. Answer: 11pm
◉ A nurse is providing an in-service program for staff on fire safety
and is reviewing the types of fire extinguishers available. Which
class of fire extinguisher would the nurse describe as appropriate
for use on an electrical fire?. Answer: Class C
A Class C fire extinguisher is used for electrical fires. A Class A
extinguisher is used for paper, wood, or cloth fires. A Class B
extinguisher is used for flammable liquid or gas fires. A Class D
extinguisher is used for combustible material fires.
◉ Autoclaving. Answer: The most effective method of sterilization is
moist heat, using steam under pressure
