Flashcards: Nursing

Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) is a class of paraprofessionals who assist individuals with physical disabilities, mental impairments, and other health care needs with their activities of daily living (ADLs) and provide bedside care—including basic nursing procedures—all under the supervision of a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse or other health care professional.

International Nurses Day (IND) is an international day celebrated around the world on 12 May (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) of each year, to mark the contributions nurses make to society.

An injection (often referred to as a "shot" in US English, or a "jab" in UK English) is an infusion method of putting fluid into the body, usually with a syringe and a hollow needle which is pierced through the skin to a sufficient depth for the material to be administered into the body.

The nursing process is a modified scientific method.

Enema (plural enemata or enemas) or clyster, is a fluid injected into the lower bowel by way of the rectum.

A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants.

Millennia ago, Hippocrates recognized the potential for injuries that arise from the well-intentioned actions of healers.

Home care, (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care), is supportive care provided in the home.

A nurses station is an area of a health care facility (such as a hospital or nursing home), which nurses and other health care staff sit behind when not working directly with patients and where they can perform some of their duties.

Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status by a licensed Registered Nurse.

A nursing care plan provides direction on the type of nursing care the individual/family/community may need .

A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes.

In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement infection control: the prevention of contagious diseases from being spread from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient (reverse isolation).

The word "nurse" originally came from the Latin word "nutrire", meaning to suckle, referring to a wet-nurse; only in the late 16th century did it attain its modern meaning of a person who cares for the infirm.

Assisting in activities of daily living (ADL) are skills required in nursing and other professions such as nursing assistants.