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Summary NURA 1500 Mnemonics and Acronyms for Nursing School Students
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- NURA 1500
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- Northwestern State University Of Louisiana
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3/17/2021 Mnemonics and Acronyms for Nursing School | e Student Nursee Student Nurse
Mnemonics and Acronyms for NursingSchool
Nursing School Study and Memory Tricks
AIDS/HIV
AIDS and HIV Acronyms and Mnemonics
HIV Prevention: Wrap, Glove and Don’t Shoot
Wrap it up (condom use in patients engaging in risky sexual practices)
Glove it up,and (health care workers need to wear gloves when exposure to blood, semen, or other bodily
fluids is possible)…
Don’t shoot up (intravenous drug users must not share needles)
HIV Transmission: Vertical Versus Horizontal
Vertical: From mother to infant during birth; a baby comes out vertically from the pelvis
Horizontal: Through body fluids; sexual intercourse occurs in a horizontal position
HIV and AIDS Risk Assessment: AIDS
A | Afraid that you have been exposed
I | Intravenous drug use
D | Diagnostic features of HIV infections; e.g.: reoccurring thrush infections)
S | Sexual behaviors of high risk; example: Multiple partners and unprotected sex, sex industry worker
HIV Body Fluid Transmission: BBB 3-Point Mantra
B | Blood
B | Bodily sexfluids
B | Breast milk
HIV Drugs: ZZLSD
Z | Zidovudine
Z | Zalcitabine
L | Lamivudine
S | Stavudine
D | Didanosine
HIV Drugs: The 3 DEN ladies of NNRT
Dela: Delavirdine
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Efa:Efavirenz
Nevira: Nevirapine
HIV Drugs: We don’t want our patients to RIP
RALFSINA are Inhibitors of Protease (Protease Inhibitors)
RALFSINA: Ritonavir, Amprenavir, Lopinavir, Fosamprinavir, Saquinavir, Indinavir, Nelfinavir, Azatanavir
Assessment
Nursing Assessment Acronyms and Mnemonics
Pain Assessment | OLD CART
O | Onset
L | Location
D | Duration
C | Characteristics
A | Aggravating factors
R | Radiation
T | Treatment (what the patient has already tried in the past and if it helped)
Pain Assessment | PQRST
P | Pre-evolution (what brought it on; eg: Unknown, injury, strain, other event)
Q | Quality (stabbing, radiating, dull, tingling, sharp)
R | Region
S | Severity, using a numerical scale of 0/10
T | Timing: When it started, how long, if it’s new onset
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular System Acronyms and Mnemonics
Angina | Precipitating Factors: 4 E’s
E1 | Exertion: physical activityand exercise
E2 | Eating
E3 | Emotional distress
E4 | Extreme temperatures: hot or cold weather
Arterial Occlusion: 4 P’s
P1 | Pain
P2 | Pulselessness or absent pulse
P3 | Pallor
P4 | Paresthesia
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Blood Pressure Formula: BP = CO x SVR
Blood Pressure
Cardiac Output
Systemic Vascular Resistance
Congestive Heart Failure Treatment: MADD DOG
M | Morphine
A | Aminophylline
D | Digoxin
D | Dopamine
D | Diuretics
O | Oxygen
G | Gasses (Arterial blood gasses [ABGs] monitoring)
Cor Pulmonale Signs and Symptoms: Please Read His Text
P | Peripheral edema
R | Raised JVP
H | Hepatomegaly
T | Tricuspid incompetence
Coronary Arteries Location: Right CAMP Left ARC (I have a Right to CAMP if you Left an ARC)
Right = Right
Coronary
Artery
Marginal Artery
Posterior Interventricular Artery
Left = Left
Anterior Interventricular Artery
Circumflex Artery
Endocarditis: FAME
Fever
Anemia
Murmur = think Endocarditis
Heart Murmur Causes: SPAMS
S | Stenosis of a valve
P | Partial obstruction
A | Aneurysms
M | Mitral regurgitation
S | Septal defect
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Heart Sounds: All People Enjoy the Mall
A | Aortic: 2nd right intercostal space
P | Pulmonic: 2ndleft intercostal space
E | Erb’s Point: 3rd leftintercostal space
T | Tricuspid: 4th left intercostal space
M | Mitral or Apex: 5th left intercostal space
Hypertension Care: DIURETIC
D | Daily weight
I | I/Os
U | Urine output*
R | Response of blood pressure
E | Electrolytes
T | Take pulse (tachycardia may occur in response to hypotension)
I | Ischemic episodes or TIAs
C | Complications: CVA, CAD, CHR, CRF
*Note: Excessive urination may indicate that diuretics dose are too high and lead to dehydration. Decreased urine
output may be associated with impaired renal function. Declined renal function is often the first non-cardiac sign
of a cardiac issue.
Myocardial Infarction Nursing Management: BOOMAR
B | Bed rest
O | Oxygen therapy
O | Opioids: morphine
M | Monitoring: vitals, arterial blood gases, cardiac enzymes, and other blood work
A | Anticoagulation therapy
R | Reduce clot size
Myocardial Infarction Treatment: MONA (or ON AM for the correct order)*
M | Morphine
O | Oxygen
N | Nitroglycerin
A | Aspirin
*The correct order of MONA interventions is oxygen, nitroglycerin, aspirin, and then morphine. This can be
remembered by the mnemonic: ON AM (I am ON fire in the AM as I am a morning person)
Shortness of Breath (SOB) Causes: AAAAPPPP
A | Airway obstruction
A | Angina
A | Anxiety
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