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| 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 |