Question | Answer |
LVN ASSESSMENT | see, auscultate,palpate and smell |
LVN admission initial and ongoing assessment | data collection only(report, assisst, and collaborate with RN) |
mandated by state law and influenced by hospital policies and procedure | RN and LVN scope of practice |
review of assessment data and update in plan of care is required every? | 8 hours |
responsible for pre admission up to discharge of PT | case manager |
cost effective, quality care with improved outcomes, gives costumer satisfaction and promotes health? | managed care |
federally and state funded healthcare that helps low income individuals or families also the elderly and disabled? | medicaid |
federal program that pays for those 65 and older | medicare |
DRG | diagnosis related group |
HMO | health maintenance organization |
ppo | preferred provider care |
mixed health care setting | hospice care crisis centers and mutual support or self help groups |
inpatient health care setting | hospital, long term care retired or assisted living and rehab centers |
outpatient health care setting | public health physicians office day care centers |
3 levels of health care | primary secondary and tertiary |
ambulatory care setting, health promotion preventative care | primary level |
hospital, emergency care | secondary level |
long term care or rehab and hospices | tertiary level |
provide higher of medical surgical nursing for pts recently discharged from hospital? | skilled nursing facility |
aka nursing homes 24 hour care for older adults | long term care |
holistic approach which assissts pt to return to highest possible level of functioning and to live independently at home | rehabilitation |
reinforce health teaching, collaborate with heath team, be a pt advocate , communicator and facilitator | role of a nurse |
preventing occurrence of disease | health promotion |
state of complete physical mental and social well being | health |
individuals response and reaction to disease process | illness |
moving back and forth from health to illness | health-illness continuum |
occurs when adaptation fails completely and is irreversible | death |
approach that includes physical social emotional psychological cultural and spiritual well being of the individual | holistic approach |
theory of motivation and heirachy of needs | abe maslow |
stages of moral development | kholberg |
phases of cognitive development | piaget |
8 stages of development | erikson |
5 stages of development | freud |
environmental theory | florence nightingale |
general theory of nursing | dorothea orem |
system model for nursing | betty neuman |
nursing adaptation model | sister callista |
cultural care diversity and universality theory | mediline leningers |
HOSA | HEALTH OCCUPATION STUDENTS OF AMERICA |
NLN | NATIONAL LEAGUE OF NURSING |
NFLPN | NATIONAL FEDERATION OF LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES |
NAPNES | NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL NURSE EDUCATION AND SERVICES |
LVN WORK SETTINGS | HOSPITAL HOMES COMMUNITY AGENCIES HMO AND SKILL NURSING FACILITIES |
nursing standards | nurse practice acts protect the public require license |
to care for individuals, families and communities | lvn purpose |
the pt or | consumer customer or client |
first training for practical nurses was at | ywca in new york |
first official school in new york | ballard school |
when were men allowed to be nurses | after korean war |
first hospital and school to educate men in nursing was opened by | alexan brothers |
who provided care during the crusades | knights |
this was the first nursing school in india it admitted only men | 250 bc |
australian nurse devised a treatment for polio | sister kenny |
midwife nurse founded frontier nursing service opened first midwifery school | mary breckinridge |
opened first birth control clinic and founded planned parenthood | margaret sanger |
sought legislature for nurse to control own profession not the physician and passage of 19th amendment | lavinia dock |
founder of public health nursing founded henry st settlement | lillian ward |
nurse during civil war established red cross | clara barton |
first nursing theorist and founder of modern nursing | florence nightingale |
3 influences on development of nursing | religion war societal attitudes |
WNL | WITHIN NORMAL LIMITS |
WBC | WHITE BLOOD COUNT |
VS | VITAL SIGNS |
VO | VERBAL ORDER |
UTI | URINARY TRACT INFECTION |
UNG | OINTMENT |
tr | TINCTURE |
TO | TELEPHONE ORDER |
tid | THREE TIMES A DAY |
tab | tablet |
syr | syrup |
SUSP | SUSPENSION |
SUPP | SUPPOSITORY |
STAT | IMMEDIATELY |
S/S | SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS |
ss | ONE HALF |
SR | SUSTAINED RELEASE |
SQ | SUBCUTANEOUS |
S/P | STATUS REPORT |
SOL | SOLUTION |
SL | SUBLINGUAL |
SC | SUBCUTANEOUS |
S | WITHOUT |
ROM | RANGE OF MOTION |
RBC | RED BLOOD COUNT |
QS | QUALITY SUFFICIENT |
QOD | EVERY OTHER DAY |
QID | 4 TIMES A DAY |
QH | EVERY HOUR |
QD | EVERY DAY |
QH | EVERY HOUR |
Q | EVERY |
PTT | PARTIAL PROTHROMBIN TIME |
PT | PROTHROMBIN TIME |
PRN | WHENEVER NECESSARY |
PR | PER RECTAL |
PO | ORALLY |
PM | AFTER NOON |
PER | BY |
PC | AFTER MEALS |
P | AFTER |
OU | BOTH EYES OCCULOS UTRO |
OS | LEFT EYE OCULUS SINISTER |
OTC | OVER THE COUNTER |
OINT | OINTMENT |
OD | RIGHT EYE OCCULUS DEXTER |
ns | normal saline |
npo | nothing by mouth |
NJ | NASO JEJUNAL |
NG | NASO GASTRIC |
MI | MYOCARDIAL INFRACTION |
KVO | KEEP VIEN OPEN |
IVPB | INTRAVENOUS PIGGY BANK |
IVP | INTRAVENOUS PUSH/PYELOGRAM |
IV | INTRAVENOUS |
IM | INTRAMUSCULAR |
ICP | INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE |
ID | INTRA DERMAL |
HS | HOURS OF SLEEP |
hgb | hemoglobin |
hct | hematocrit |
h | HOUR |
GT | GASTRONOMY |
GFR | GLOMERULOFILTRATION RATE |
ext | extract |
elix | elixir |
EEG | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM |
ECG | ELECTROCARDIOGRAM |
EC | ENTERIC COATED |
CVP | CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE |
CVA | CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT |
CSF | CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID |
CPK | CREATININE PHOSPHOKINASE |
COPD | CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE |
CO | CARDIO OUTPUT |
CNS | CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM |
CHF | CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE |
CF | CYSTIC FIBROSIS |
CBC | COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT |
CAT | COMPUTERIZED AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY |
CAD | CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE |
CAP | CAPSULE |
C | WITH |
BUN | BLOOD URINE NITROGEN |
BP | BLOOD PRESSURE |
BID | 2 IN A DAY |
AU | BOTH EARS AURICULA UTRO |
AS | LEFT EAR |
AQ | WATER |
AMA | AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE |
AM | BEFORE NOON |
ADA | AMERICAN DIABETES ASS. |
ad lib | as desired |
ADH | ANTI DIURETIC HORMONE |
AD | RIGHT EAR |
ac | BEFORE MEALS |
ABT | ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY |
ABG | ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS |
A | BEFORE OR ANTE |
U | UNIT |
tsp | TEASPOON |
tbsp | tablespoon |
qt | quart |
pt | pint |
oz | ounce |
mm | millimeters |
ml | milliliters |
milligrams | mg |
meq | milliquivalent |
mcg | micrograms |
m | meters |
lb | pound |
L | liters |
kg | kilograms |
in | inches |
gtt | drops |
gt | drop |
gr | grain |
gl | glass |
gal | gallon |
g | grams |
ft | foot |
fl | fluid |
dss | 2 teaspoons |
dr | drams |
cm | centimeters |
cc | cubic centimeter |
c | cup |
BT | bed time |
iu | international unit |
in | intranasal |
ij | injection |
hs | half strength |
tw | times a week |
ud | as directed |
1 minim=`x drops | 1 drop or 1 gtt |
480 grains = x oz | 1oz |
16 floz=x pt | 1 pint |
32 floz= x qt | 1 quart |
1ml=x gtt= | 15 gtt |
5ml=xtsp | 1tsp` |
15ml=xtbs | 1 table spoon |
180ml=xteacup | 1 teacup |
240ml=xglass | 1 glass |
u | unit |
ss | one half |
os or o | mouth |
1 gal or 4 qt or 8 pts or 128 oz in ml | 3840ml |
100 degrees celcius or 212 degrees ferinhiet | boiling point |
0 segrees celcuis or 32 degrees fahrenheit | freezing point |
c=f-32/1.8 | coversion from c to f |
f=cx1.8+32 | conversion from f to c |
premixed liquid measured in standardized units of potency rather than weight or volume | insulin |
r | review of systems |
pmh | past medical history |
sh | social history |
epr | electronic pt record |
ehr | electronic health record |
fh | family history |
cc | chief complaint |
study of word origins | etymology |
smallest component of the ecf like gi fluid, spinal fluid and bladder urine | transcellular |
fluid used to refer to the fluid in blood vessels,plasma | intravascular fluid |
found in tissue spaces bathes cell | interstital fluid |
fluid found outside mostly plasma | extracellular |
most abundant fluid in body found in cell | intracellular |
moves by passive transport aids in homeostasis | water |
releases substances through ducts reaching epithelial tissue or skin | exocrine |
keeps body in homeostasis by regulating body function | endocrine |
secrete hormones into blood | endocrine |
secreted hormones regulates growth produces energy | endocrine |
conducts and transmits signals to regulate body function consists of neurons | nerve |
moves bodies framework | muscle |
involuntary non striated forms a layer around organs | smooth muscle |
involuntary muscle that pumps blood | cardiac muscle |
provides movement striated and voluntary | skeletal muscle |