NCLEX-RN

NCLEX-RN Review Study Guide

Chapter Two: Fundamental Skills 2.1 Safety 1. When prioritizing patients and tasks to be done, nurses should always consider the “ABCs” first. At the same time, they should consider safety issues. As an RN, the nurse should always first do the thing that he/she can do independently to take the patient out of immediate danger before calling the ____________________________, or doing other interventions. 2. Restraints are meant to keep a patient safe and to help him/her from removing important medical equipment from the body. However, nurses should consider the ____________________________restrictive method of restraint first. 3. Nurses can be injured in a number of ways if they don’t use safe practices. When lifting and moving, health care providers should always lift with their ____________________________, not their ____________________________. 4. Needles should never be bent, ____________________________, or ____________________________. 5. Healthcare providers should wear gloves with all patients and wash their hands ____________________________and ____________________________ contact with any patient. 6. If anyone in or out of the healthcare facility ingests a poison, the first action should be to ____________________________. Nurses without protective equipment and proper training should not administer chemotherapy. 2.2 Medication 1. The five rights of medication administration are: • ____________________________ • ____________________________ • ____________________________ • ____________________________ • ____________________________ Documentation of medication administration is also now considered a right of medication administration. “If you didn’t document it, you didn’t do it.” If the doctor has written a medication order, and any part of the order is missing, a nurse must call the doctor for clarification of the order. 2. If a nurse administers a wrong dose or route of a medication because the physician’s order wasn’t clear, who is responsible for this error, the doctor, the nurse, or both? ____________________________

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