Morse Fall Scale - Answers Six-item fall risk assessment tool, widely used nationally and
internationally since the late 1980s in acute care and long-term care settings
Braden Scale - Answers A tool for predicting pressure ulcer risk
sentinel event - Answers an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or
psychological injury, or the risk thereof
Code Red - Answers fire
Code Blue - Answers life threatening situation
Code Black - Answers Bomb threat
race - Answers rescue, alarm, contain, extinguish
pass - Answers Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
Stages of Illness - Answers transition, acceptance, convalescence
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answers physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-
actualization
Nursing Process - Answers Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Intervention
Evaluation
Nurse Practice Act - Answers statute in each state and territory that regulates the practice of
nursing
advance directives - Answers A legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes
regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process
Mandatory Reporting Laws - Answers The law in various states requires healthcare workers to
report communicable diseases. You also have a duty to report physical, sexual, or emotional
abuse or neglect of children, older adults, or the mentally ill, whether you suspect it or have
actual evidence of it.
Physical Assessment - Answers Inspection
Palpation
, Auscultation
Percussion
Nursing Diagnosis (PES) - Answers (problem) related to (etiology) AEB (current signs and
symptoms)
two part nursing diagnosis - Answers (Risk for problem) related to (etiology)
bid - Answers twice a day
tid - Answers three times a day
PO - Answers by mouth
NPO - Answers nothing by mouth
NKDA - Answers no known drug allergies
ADL - Answers activities of daily living
Dx - Answers diagnosis
STAT - Answers immediately
SOAPIER - Answers subjective, objective, assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation, revision
PIE charting - Answers problem, intervention, evaluation
Types of Health History - Answers -comprehensive health assessment
-focused or problem oriented
-follow up history
-emergency
Heart Rate vs. Rhythm - Answers HR - number of times in a minute a pulsation is felt
Rhythm - regularity of pulsations or time between each beat
pulse pressure - Answers difference between systolic and diastolic pressure
Korotkoff - Answers Specific sounds heard when one is taking a blood pressure
auscultatory gap - Answers Disappearance of sound when obtaining a blood pressure; typically
occurs between the first and second Korotkoff sounds.