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Nurs 503 Exam #1 Questions and Correct
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Standard Precautions
Ans: - prevents spread of infection
- all aspects of care (all patients)
- protects nurse and patient
- hand hygiene (soap and water or hand sanitizer)
Rules about nails
Ans: - nails must be trimmed at a length no longer than
fingertips
- artificial nails and nail polish prohibited
- only 1 ring per hand may be worn
* all these things harbor bacteria
Wash your hands before what
Ans: - patient interaction
- donning gloves (sterile or clean)
- inserting invasive devices
- transitioning from soiled to clean
- eating or drinking
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- touching your face
Wash your hands after what
Ans: - patient contact
- removing gloves
- contact with soiled equipment, linen, dressings
- contact with body fluids, excretions, drainage
- using the restroom, coughing, blowing nose
Hand sanitizers
Ans: - alcohol based (60-90% concentration)
- can be used for routine, non-soiled situations
- Is not effective for certain situations ( C diff)
What are situations you must wash your hands and not use hand
sanitizer
Ans: - when hands are visibly soiled
- after caring for a person with known or suspected infectious
diarrhea
- after known or suspected exposure to spores ( C. diff)
- before and after eating
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- after using the restroom
Hand washing process
Ans: - push you watch and any long sleeves up your arm 4 -5
inches
- turn on the water to warm
- wet your hands and wrists. keep you hands lower than your
elbows. be sure to wet the area 3-4 inches above the wrists
- apply 1 teaspoon of soap to hands
- rub your palms together, interlace fingers, lather wrists, hands
and fingers. keep your hands lower than your elbows and wash
for 15-20 seconds.
- wash each hand and wrist. clean the back of your fingers and
in between
- clean under the fingernails. rub fingertips agains palm
- rinse your wrists, hands, and fingers well, let water flow from
wrists to fingertips
- dry your wrists and hands well with clean, dry paper towels
- discard paper towel
- turn off faucet with clean, dry paper towels.
hand sanitizer process
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Ans: - apply a palmful of alcohol based hand sanitizer into
cupped hand
- rub palms together
- rub the palm of 1 hand over the back of the other. do the same
with the other hand
- interlock you fingers. rub fingers back and fourth
- rub the thumb of 1 hand in the palm of the other. do the same
for other thumb
- rub the fingers of one hand into the palm of the other. use
circular motions and do the same with the other hand.
Assessment of the nursing process
Ans: the focus of nursing care is on the human response to
health and illness
- deliberate and systematic collection of information about a
patient to determine their current and past health, functional
status, and coping patterns
Primary source vs secondary source in the nursing assessment
Ans: primary = the patient
secondary = family, caregiver, family members, friends, health
professionals, medical record
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Nurs 503 Exam #1 Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Standard Precautions
Ans: - prevents spread of infection
- all aspects of care (all patients)
- protects nurse and patient
- hand hygiene (soap and water or hand sanitizer)
Rules about nails
Ans: - nails must be trimmed at a length no longer than
fingertips
- artificial nails and nail polish prohibited
- only 1 ring per hand may be worn
* all these things harbor bacteria
Wash your hands before what
Ans: - patient interaction
- donning gloves (sterile or clean)
- inserting invasive devices
- transitioning from soiled to clean
- eating or drinking
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- touching your face
Wash your hands after what
Ans: - patient contact
- removing gloves
- contact with soiled equipment, linen, dressings
- contact with body fluids, excretions, drainage
- using the restroom, coughing, blowing nose
Hand sanitizers
Ans: - alcohol based (60-90% concentration)
- can be used for routine, non-soiled situations
- Is not effective for certain situations ( C diff)
What are situations you must wash your hands and not use hand
sanitizer
Ans: - when hands are visibly soiled
- after caring for a person with known or suspected infectious
diarrhea
- after known or suspected exposure to spores ( C. diff)
- before and after eating
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- after using the restroom
Hand washing process
Ans: - push you watch and any long sleeves up your arm 4 -5
inches
- turn on the water to warm
- wet your hands and wrists. keep you hands lower than your
elbows. be sure to wet the area 3-4 inches above the wrists
- apply 1 teaspoon of soap to hands
- rub your palms together, interlace fingers, lather wrists, hands
and fingers. keep your hands lower than your elbows and wash
for 15-20 seconds.
- wash each hand and wrist. clean the back of your fingers and
in between
- clean under the fingernails. rub fingertips agains palm
- rinse your wrists, hands, and fingers well, let water flow from
wrists to fingertips
- dry your wrists and hands well with clean, dry paper towels
- discard paper towel
- turn off faucet with clean, dry paper towels.
hand sanitizer process
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Ans: - apply a palmful of alcohol based hand sanitizer into
cupped hand
- rub palms together
- rub the palm of 1 hand over the back of the other. do the same
with the other hand
- interlock you fingers. rub fingers back and fourth
- rub the thumb of 1 hand in the palm of the other. do the same
for other thumb
- rub the fingers of one hand into the palm of the other. use
circular motions and do the same with the other hand.
Assessment of the nursing process
Ans: the focus of nursing care is on the human response to
health and illness
- deliberate and systematic collection of information about a
patient to determine their current and past health, functional
status, and coping patterns
Primary source vs secondary source in the nursing assessment
Ans: primary = the patient
secondary = family, caregiver, family members, friends, health
professionals, medical record
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