LATEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
1 3 - Answer-High O2 can cause death within ? to ? minutes
/.15 minutes - Answer-You must check patient in a restraint every ?? ??
/.2 hours - Answer-You must remove restraints every ?? ??
/.6 Rights of Medication Administration - Answer-Right dose, right time, right patient,
right route, right documentation, right medication
/.64 75 - Answer-Normal room temperature is between ??F and ??F
/.A UAP may perform care that falls within which component of the nursing process? -
Answer-Implementation
/.A-R - Answer-apical-radial pulse
/.Accountability - Answer-Taking responsibility for ones actions
/.acupuncture - Answer-the insertion of needles at various points on the body to relieve
pain
-invasive
-associated with the gate control theory
-thought to increase the production of endogenous opiates
/.Acute pain - Answer--temporary
-occurs after an injury to the body
-includes postoperative pain, labor pain, renal calculus pain
/.Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Answer-Most independently
functioning nurse; has masters degree in nursing
/.Advanced roles of the RN - Answer-caregiver, communicator, teacher, client advocate,
counselor, change agent, leader, manager and case manager
/.airborne - Answer-?? precautions are for droplet nuclei smaller than 5 mcg - measles,
chickenpox
/.Airborne precautions - Answer-Used for diseases that are transmitted by smaller
droplets that remain in the hair for long periods of time. Requires negative air flow; air
filtered through HEPA filter
,/.ALL - Answer-?? other appropriate methods must have been exhausted before using a
restraint
/.Alzheimer medication - Answer-you can use atypical antipsychotics. Clozaril is not a
front line agent because of side effects. one may also give mood stabilizers, and
antianxiety medications
/.ANA - Answer-American Nurses Association; concerned with legal aspects of nursing
/.AP - Answer-apical pulse
/.apical pulse - Answer-pulse normally heard at the heart's apex, usuallly gives the most
accurate assessment of pulse rate
/.apical-radial pulse - Answer-reading done by measuring both the apical and radial
pulse simultaneously, used when it is suspected that the heart is not effectively pumping
blood.
/.apnea - Answer-cessatation of breathing
/.as evidenced by - Answer-AEB means
/.as long as the client's acts are free of violence: nurse should.... - Answer--actively
listen to the clients obsessive themes
-acknowledge the effects that ritualistic acts have on the client
-demonstrate empathy
-avoid being judgmental
/.as manifested by - Answer-AMB means
/.assault - Answer-?? may be actual or threatened, such as giving an injection or
threatening to restrain a client who has refused a procedure
/.assessment - Answer-A of SOAP
/.assessment diagnose plan implement evaluate - Answer-The 5 phases of the nursing
process - ??, ??, ??, ??, and ??
/.atypical antipsychotics drugs are also indication for mania - Answer-monitor serum
lithium levels carefully. 0.-1.5 is therapeutic level, blood should be drawn every 12 hours
after last dose
/.ausculation - Answer-externally listening to sounds from within the body to determine
abnormal conditions, as in blood pressure
/.Autonomy - Answer-Persons right to choose and the ability to act on that choice
, /.Average axillary temp - Answer-36.5 (97.7)
/.Average oral temp - Answer-37 (98.6)
/.Average rectal temp - Answer-37.5 (99.5)
/.avoid giving clients with dissociative disorders too much information about past events
at one time - Answer-the various types of amnestic that accompany dissociative
disorders provide protection from pain and too much to soon can cause
decompensation
/.Ax - Answer-under the arm ; axillary
/.axillary - Answer-under the armpit
/.basic communication principles - Answer-establish trust, nonjudgemental
attitude,active listening, offer self, accept client's feelings, validate client's statements,
matter of fact approach
/.Basic contact precautions for protective environments - Answer-Hand hygiene before
and after entering room; dispose of contaminated supplies in a way that prevents the
spread of germs; use protective barriers; protect all persons who might be exposed
during transport
/.battery - Answer-?? is intentional touching without consent
/.be aware of your own feelings when dealing with this somatoform clients. - Answer-the
pain is real to the person experiencing it
/.Beneficence - Answer-Duty to do or promote good; taking positive actions to help
others
/.Bleuler's 4 A's for schizophrenia - Answer-autism (preoccupied with self)
affect (flat)
associations (loose)
ambivalence (difficulty making decisions)
/.Bolus tube feeding - Answer-Large feeding done over 20-30 minutes
/.BPM - Answer-Beats per minute
/.bradycardia - Answer-abnormally slow breathing/respiration
/.bradypenia - Answer-condition where the breathes are abnormally slow and fall below
10 breathes/ minute.