Patient Care Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What is Tort? | The intentional or unintentional act that results in injury. |
| What is Negligence? | Omission of reasonable care. |
| What is Malpractice? | Patient is injured, then come back and sue you due to error. |
| What is Battery? | The unlawful touching without consent |
| What is Assault? | Threat or verbal threating |
| What is Beneficence? | To do good, do what's best for patients. |
| What is Misfeasance? | Not performing a duty correctly, improper performance. |
| What is Res ipsa loquitur? | The thing speaks for itself |
| What is Slander? | Defamation by spoken word. |
| What is Malfeasance? | Intentional conduct that is wrong or unlawful. |
| What is Libel? | Defamation by written word. |
| What is Respndeat superior? | Let the master answer the employer is responsible. |
| What is Nonfeasance? | Fail to act |
| What is Invasion of Privacy? | Hippa violations, exposing patient body. |
| What should your normal BUN range be? | 8-25 |
| What should your normal Creatinine range be? | .7-1.3 |
| What should your normal GFR range be? | 90-120 |
| What does positive room pressure mean? | air goes out but not in |
| What does negative room pressure mean? | air goes in but not out |
| What is Vehicles? | transmission of infectious agent that is indirect. |
| What is Formites? | inanimate object that has made contact with infectious organisms. |
| What is Nosocomial? | Hospital acquired infection. |
| What is Vectors? | Typically a bug. |
| What is Nasoentric tubes? | Aspiration of gas and fluid from intestinal tract after surgery. |
| What is Urinary Catheters? | Used for the drainage and collection of urine; may be used to allow healing of surrounding tissues or to deliver medicaitons or irrigate bladder. |
| What is Nasogastric tube? | Used for feeding or gastric suction. |
| What is Tracheostomy? | Opening into the airway with a tube in place; may be connected to vent. |
| What is closed chest drainage? | Used to remove fluid or gastric or free air from pleural cavity; if disconnected abruptly, lung collapse may result. |
| What is Tracheotomy? | Surgical opening into trachea, must suction occasionally. |
| What is Swan ganz catheter? | Situated in right side of heart for monitoring of heart function and blood flow. |
| What is Orthopedic traction? | Uses weights for therapeutic reasons; usually for long bones or spine inquires; don't move weights. |
| What are Vasodilators used for? | To relax the walls of blood vessels, permitting a greater flow of blood. |
| What are examples of anticoagulats? | Heparin and warfarin |
| What are Barbiturates used for ? | Depress the central nervous system, respirations, and blood pressure; induce sleep |
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