Nursing Mnemonics Exam
With Answers Focus On Your
Success
DO NOT delegate what you can EAT!
E - evaluate
A - assess
T - teach
addisons= down, down down up down
cushings= up up up down up
addisons= hyponatremia, hypotension, decreased blood vol, hyperkalemia, hypoglycemia
cushings= hypernatremia, hypertension, increased blood vol, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia
No Pee, no K
do not give potassium without adequate urine output
better perfusion
EleVate Veins; dAngle Arteries
APGAR
A= appearance (color all pink, pink and blue, blue [pale])
P= pulse (>100, < 100, absent)
G= grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
A= activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
R= respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
Airborne Precautions
My - Measles
Chicken - Chicken Pox/Varicella
Hez - Herpez Zoster/Shingles
TB
, Private Room - negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr
Mask, N95 for TB
Droplet Precautions
think of S3P3IDERM3aN!
S - sepsis
S - scarlet fever
S - streptococcal pharyngitis
P - parvovirus B19
P - pneumonia
P - pertussis
I - influenza
D - diptheria (pharyngeal)
E - epiglottitis
R - rubella
M - mumps
M - meningitis
M - mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia
An - Adenovirus
Private Room or cohort, mask
Contact Precautions
MRS.WEE
M - multidrug resistant organism
R - respiratory infection
S - skin infections *
W - wound infxn
E - enteric infxn - clostridium difficile
E - eye infxn - conjunctivitis
Types of Skin Infections (Contact Precautions)
VCHIPS
V - varicella zoster
With Answers Focus On Your
Success
DO NOT delegate what you can EAT!
E - evaluate
A - assess
T - teach
addisons= down, down down up down
cushings= up up up down up
addisons= hyponatremia, hypotension, decreased blood vol, hyperkalemia, hypoglycemia
cushings= hypernatremia, hypertension, increased blood vol, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia
No Pee, no K
do not give potassium without adequate urine output
better perfusion
EleVate Veins; dAngle Arteries
APGAR
A= appearance (color all pink, pink and blue, blue [pale])
P= pulse (>100, < 100, absent)
G= grimace (cough, grimace, no response)
A= activity (flexed, flaccid, limp)
R= respirations (strong cry, weak cry, absent)
Airborne Precautions
My - Measles
Chicken - Chicken Pox/Varicella
Hez - Herpez Zoster/Shingles
TB
, Private Room - negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges/hr
Mask, N95 for TB
Droplet Precautions
think of S3P3IDERM3aN!
S - sepsis
S - scarlet fever
S - streptococcal pharyngitis
P - parvovirus B19
P - pneumonia
P - pertussis
I - influenza
D - diptheria (pharyngeal)
E - epiglottitis
R - rubella
M - mumps
M - meningitis
M - mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia
An - Adenovirus
Private Room or cohort, mask
Contact Precautions
MRS.WEE
M - multidrug resistant organism
R - respiratory infection
S - skin infections *
W - wound infxn
E - enteric infxn - clostridium difficile
E - eye infxn - conjunctivitis
Types of Skin Infections (Contact Precautions)
VCHIPS
V - varicella zoster
