NURS 160 Practice Quiz 1 with 100% Verified Solutions | Latest Updated 2024 Graded A+

NURS 160 Practice Quiz 1 with 100% Verified Solutions | Latest Updated 2024 Graded A+ Putting on PPE - Gown, mask, goggles, gloves Taking off PPE - Gloves, goggles, gown, mask Medical asepsis - Clean technique. Includes procedures used for reducing the number of organisms and preventing their transfer Examples of medical asepsis - Hand hygiene, barrier techniques, and routine environmental cleaning Surgical asepsis - Sterile technique. Includes procedures used to eliminate all microorganisms from an area. Standard precautions - Applies to blood, blood products, all body fluids, secretions, excretions (except sweat), nonintact skin, and mucous membranes. Use with all patients Airborne precautions - Private room, negative-pressure airflow of at least 6 to 12 exchanges per hour via HEPA filtration; mask or respiratory protection device, N95 respirator required (depending on condition) When to use airborne precautions - Droplet nuclei smaller than 5 microns. Measles, chickenpox (varicella), disseminated varicella zoster, pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis Droplet precautions - Private room or cohort patients; mask or respirator required (depending on condition) (refer to agency policy) When to use droplet precautions - Droplets larger than 5 microns. Diphtheria (pharyngeal), rubella, streptococcal pharyngitis, pneumonia or scarlet fever in infants and young children, pertussis, mumps, Mycoplasma pneumonia, meningococcal pneumonia or sepsis, pneumonic plague Contact precautions - Private room or cohort patients (see agency policy), gloves, gowns When to use contact precautions - Colonization or infection with multidrug- resistant organisms such as VRE and MRSA, Clostridium difficile, Shigella, and other enteric pathogens; major wound infections; herpes simplex; scabies; varicella zoster (disseminated); respiratory syncytial virus in infants, young children, or immunocompromised adults Chain of infection - 1. An infectious agent or pathogen 2. A reservoir or source for pathogen growth 3. A portal of exit from the reservoir 4. A mode of transmission 5. A portal of entry to the host 6. A susceptible host Components of a health history - 1. Identifying Data and Source of the History 2. Chief Complaint(s) 3. History of Present Illness (HPI) 4. Past History 5. Family History 6. Review of Systems 7. Health Patterns Types of therapeutic communication - 1. Active listening 2. Broad to specific 3. Less sensitive to more sensitive 4. Open ended question 5. Respectful of personal space 6. Empathetic (feeling into) not sympathetic (feeling with) 7. Read body language Barriers to communication - 1. Culture 2. Values 3. Social class 4. Establishment of relationship/ trust 5. Perceptions 6. Developmental stage 7. Setting/ environment 8. Emotions 9. Gender and gender identity 10. Knowledge level Factors that influence communication - 1. Culture 2. Perceptions 3. Values 4. Social class 5. Establishment of a relationship/ trust 6. Developmental stage 7. Context/ setting/ environment 8. Emotions 9. Gender and gender identity 10. Knowledge level General survey - Assess the patient's overall appearance and apparent age, level of consciousness, facial features and expressions, demeanor and affect, posture, gait, motor activity, speech, skin color and lesions, dress and personal hygiene Skills of an assessor - Inspect, palpate, percuss, auscultate unless abdomen then inspect, auscultate, palpate, percuss