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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apical pulse, accurate cardiac pulse | PMI |
| What was Clara Barton known as? | The "Angel of the Battlefield" during the US Civil War. She was the first president of the Red Cross Association. |
| What was Dorothea Dix known as? | An activist for mental health care. Superintendent of female nurses in the Army in 1861 and was a retired teacher. |
| What was Florence Nightingale known for? | Establishing modern nursing. Attended the Kaiserworth School in Germany in 1851. Took care of patients during the Crimean War. |
| What was Mary Mohoney known for? | Being the First African American Nurse in the US. Established the National Association for Colored Graduate Nurses. |
| Who were the Great Trio? | Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lillian Wald, and Annie Goodrich |
| What was Linda Richards known as? | The first "trained nurse" in the US. Graduated from Boston's New England Hospital of Women and Children in 1872. |
| What was Isabel Hampton Robb | An activist for nursing labor reform in the late 1800s. |
| What was Mary Adelaide Nutting known for? | Graduating in the first nursing class from John Hopkins University; became the first professor in nursing. |
| What was Lillian Wald known as? | The first to visiting nurse, opened the Henry Street Settlement to provide health care to the poor. |
| What was Annie Goodrich known for? | Devoted to establishing nursing as a profession. She served as the director of Visiting Nursing Service at the Henry Street Settlement. |
| What year was the first training program for practical nurses in New York City at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) established? | 1892 |
| What year was the Nurse Associated Alumnae of the United States was formed in Baltimore, Maryland to oversee training to protect patients from incompetent nurses established? | 1897 |
| What year did some states began to pass laws requiring the licensure of nurses? | 1900 |
| What year did all states required practical nurses to be licensed? | 1955 |
| What is the Nurse Practice Act? | Law governing nurses' actions, specifically address each level of nursing. |
| What is the Scope of Practice? | The limitations and allowances of what they can do nurses. |
| What was Jean Watson known for? | Caring theory; nursing is an interpersonal process. (1979) |
| DNAR stand for? | Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation |
| What is a DNAR? | An order not to resuscitate a patient if they stop breathing or their heart stops beating. |
| What is Assault? | To purposely threaten physical harm to an individual. |
| What is Battery? | To touch an individual without consent. |
| What is an emancipated minor? | Legal consideration of one younger than 18 years as an adult because the person lives alone and is self-supporting, has joined the military, is married, or is a parent. |
| Malpractice is? | Injury, loss, or damage to a patient because of failure to provide a reasonable standard of care or demonstrate a reasonable level of skill. |
| Negligence is? | Failure to provide certain care that another person of the same education and locale would generally provide under the same circumstances. |
| Abandonment of Patient is? | To desert or forsake a patient in your charge; to leave a patient in your charge without appropriate nursing replacement; wrongful termination of care. |
| An advance directive is? | A written statement indicating a patient's wishes regarding future medical care in the event the patient becomes unable to voice their decisions; it may give consent for certain aspects of care as well as refusal of specific care. |
| What is HIPPA? | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| What is the Good Samaritan Law? | Provides protection to the voluntary caregiver at sites of accidents and emergencies. |
| What are the types of abuse that MUST BE REPORTED? | Children abuse, elderly abuse, and domestic abuse. |
| Delegation is? | The process for a nurse to direct another person to perform nursing tasks and activities. |
| Microorganisms that live in our bodies, performing needed functions to protect us from harmful pathogens and help us breakdown and digest food are referred as? | Normal Flora |
| Microorganisms that make cause infections in humans are called? | Pathogens |
| Infections are caused by? | A variety of microorganisms. |
| Purple or blue gram stains are known as? | Gram-positive-organisms |
| Pink or red gram stains are known as? | Gram-Negative-organisms |
| Insect bites such as ticks and mites are often spread through? | Rickettsia |
| What are vectors? | Vectors are arthropods organisms (like mosquitos, ticks, mites, or fleas) that transmits infectious pathogens. |
| Antibiotics are prescribe to treat? | Infections caused by BACTERIA |
| What are MDROs (multiple-drug-resistant organisms)? | Bacteria that have mutated in such way that they are resistant to many of the antibiotics normally used to treat infections. |
| What are viruses? | They are very tiny parasites that live within the cells of the host and reproduce there. |
| How to do you treat viral infections that are mild and self-timing? | Without medication, they will resolve in time. |
| What are antifungal infections treated with? | Antifungal medications such as creams, ointments, and oral and IV forms. |
| What are Helminths? | Parasitic worms |
| What do helminths inhabit? | The human digestive tract. |
| Remove PPE order? | Gloves, goggles, gown, mask |
| What are Staphylococcus Aureus? | Boils, toxic shock syndrome, osteomyelitis and MRSA. |
| External respiration | Gas exchanges in lung, avo |
| Internal respiration | gas exchanges in cells and tissues |
| Borrelia Burgdorferi | Lyme disease |
| Hyperglycemia | hot/dry skin, confusion, fruity breath, headache, and frequent urination |
| Hypoglycemia | confusion, shakiness, dizziness, headache, and weakness. |
| C. difficile? | severe diarrhea caused by an infection. |
| Infectious Agent | Causative organism |
| Reservoir | place the organism grows |
| Portal of exit | method by which the organism leaves the reservoir |
| Mode of transmission | vehicle by which the organism is transferred |
| Portal of entry | method by which the organism enters a new host |
| Susceptible host | person whose body the organism has entered |
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