What type of collaboration involves Mentor to Mentee? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse to nurse
What type of collaboration involves making care plans, setting goals and setting patient outcomes? -
correct answer ✔✔Nurse to Patient
What type of collaboration involves SBAR? - correct answer ✔✔Nurse to other healthcare professionals
Billy Sue comes to the emergency department, with the c/o extreme/unquenchable thirst, Billy sue
recently had a hemicolectomy. What would you suspect? - correct answer ✔✔Hemorrhage
Which medications/ insulins are sliding scale insulins? - correct answer ✔✔Novalog(aspart ),
Humalog(lispro ), Novalin-R and Humalin R
What is medication reconciliation? - correct answer ✔✔The process of identifying an accurate list of all
medications that the patient is taking.
What do you want to remember when it comes to medication reconciliation? - correct answer ✔✔- go
through all medications after a procedure ( dosage, name, type)
-the doctor may discontinue medication
- ALWAYS CALL PHYSICIAN TO ENSURE DRUG LIST ACCURACY
(look for disparities)
Peggy Sue has just undergone surgery, the nurse has educated her on the benefits of early ambulation,
what might those benefits be? - correct answer ✔✔- circulation
- prevention of PE
- prevention of DVT
-decreases pt length of stay(LOS)
- jump start GI,GU and pulmonary functions
, - helps with wound healing
What are the 5 rights of delegation? - correct answer ✔✔- right task
- right circumstance (STABLE PT)
- right person
-right supervision
-right direction/right communication
A 35 yr old female patient who is in recovery 2 hours after a hysterectomy, Can you delegate this patient
overnight? Why or why not? - correct answer ✔✔NO, this patient is considered unstable.
(patients who are considered unstable can not be delegated)
What types of side effects are we looking for when it comes to PCA pumps? - correct answer ✔✔-
Respiratory Depression (under 9 RR)
- Constipation
-N/V
- hypotension
- low bpm
23 year old male experiencing pain after removal of a large portion of his colon due to diverticulitis,
receives a PCA pump. His respirations are 8, bp is 89/65, bpm 54, What is this patient suffering from and
what would you do to treat him? - correct answer ✔✔Respiratory depression (a common side effect of
opiates).
STOP THE PCA PUMP!!!!
CALL THE RN/PHYSICIAN
Patient 22 suffering from pain LLQ(abdomen), abdomen is also rock hard, has a fever of 101.4*, has
elevated WBC-(5000-10000^)15000, bp (low) 95/66, has tachycardia, What is this patient suffering from?
- correct answer ✔✔Diverticulitis
What type of leadership is defined as "task oriented, gives orders and does not take the suggestions of
others seriously(best in emergent situations)? - correct answer ✔✔Autocratic
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