Review for Final Exam PTVN09
Mrs. Elizabeth Keele, RN, BSN
Final Exam is scheduled for: ______________________________
1. Medical Terminology:
a. Review all medical terminology lists (1-13)
b. Be able to identify their meanings
c. Be able to identify pre-fixes, suffixes and combining forms
d. Know the rules for creating medical terminology
2. Dimensional Analysis
a. Identify which decimal number has the highest value
b. Identify the correct metric abbreviations
c. Convert metric units (for example 1000 grams  __?__ kg
d. Identify how many grams of drug are in a solution. (How many grams are in a 100 mL 2%
solution)
e. Identify the strongest solution of a ratio prescription.
f. Read medication labels
i. Identify generic name
ii. Identify trade name
iii. Identify manufacturer
iv. Identify dosage strength
v. Identify number of tablets / capsules
vi. Identify unit dose labels
g. Compute number of milliliters in an ounce, teaspoon, tablespoon, drop
h. Read a 3 mL syringe
i. Round numbers to the nearest tenth & hundredth
j. Given a medication label and a physician order, identify the correct number of tablets or
capsules to give to a patient.
k. Using dimensional analysis calculate the correct amount of medication to give to a
patient.
l. Know the 6 rights of drug administration
m. Identify various routes of medication administration by abbreviation
n. Calculate and document time using a 24 hour clock
o. Correctly identify the necessary components of a physician’s perscription
3. Nursing Concepts
a. Professionalism
i. Know the 6 characteristics of professionalism and what they mean
b. Nursing History
i. Be able to identify and know their contribution of the nursing profession for the
following people
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Theodore Fliedner
3. Mary Jane Seacole
4. Clara Barton
5. Louisa May Alcott
6. Linda Richards
7. Dorothy Dix
8. James Derham / Durham
9. Ellen Dougherty
10. Mary Eliza Mahoney
ii. Who were the first nurses in history
iii. Identify which state had the first nursing registry
iv. What was the first nursing association in the US
v. What was the first American nursing magazine
c. Nursing Process
i. Explain the nursing process
ii. Identify the steps of the nursing process
iii. Differentiate between subjective and objective data
iv. Differentiate between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis
v. Differentiate between independent nursing interventions, interdependent
nursing interventions and dependent nursing interventions
vi. Be able to explain and utilize Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
d. Standards of Care
i. Define law
ii. Describe the two basic types of law (public / civil)
iii. Identify the different types of public law (constitutional, statutory,
administrative, criminal)
iv. Define tort law
v. What is negligence
vi. What is mal practice
e. Patient Rights
i. Be able to identify patient rights
ii. Explain the history of patient rights in the US