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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Prone
3 or more pt's with similar last name (need to write 'Name Alert')
Arterial blood gas
Spleen
Lying w/face downward (body directional terms)

2. ac
Incision
Ante cibum (before meals)
Recommended dietary allowance. The average daily intake of a nutrient that meets the requirements of nearly all healthy ppl of a given age/gender.
Milliequivalent

3. UCR
Pertaining to front to back (body directional terms)
History
Usual - Customary - and Reasonable
Surgical repair

4. Body Organs
Mouth
Student Health Unit Coordinatoor
4x a day
An organ is made up of 2 or more types of tissues that perform one or more common functions.

5. Tx
Decreased - lower - below
Inflammation
Medication Administration Record
Treatment

6. Pulse Rate
Usual - Customary - and Reasonable
Cacner
Psychiatry
The # of times the heart beats per minute (felt through the walls of the artery)

7. ungu / o
Ear
Right
Nail (word roots/combining forms)
Midnight

8. cyto
Right
Tumor (word roots/combining forms)
Should contain: ambu bag - code blue book - guiac - stroke alert box.
Cell

9. Electrolytes
Sodium - potassium - co2 - Bun - creatinine - calcium
Pertaining to back to front (body directional terms)
Penicillin
Microgram

10. Intervertebral
Bad error/mistake/at fault/harm to pt
Patient Care Technician
Blood
Pertaining to between the vertebrae

11. intra- (prefix)
Within
Pertaining to in back of (body directional terms)
Producing
4x a day

12. CXR
Date in which a specific category of meds must discontinue unless review by a Dr.
Long-Term Care
Chest x-ray
Neurology

13. myring/o
Culture & Sensitivity
Tympanic membrane (eardrum)
No Know Food Allergies
Head of bed

14. PPO
Excessive discharge - flow
Disease
Cerebrospinal fluid (lumbar tray in materials)
Preferred Provider Organization

15. abd
The thickest muscular middle layer of the heart
Abdomen
Sodium
A temporary lowering of BP usually due to standing suddenly - also called postural hypotension

16. CAD
Fever
Connective tissue - flesh (word roots/combining forms)
Coronary artery disease= narrowing of the arteries due to buildup of plaque on the arterial walls (a condition called atherosclerosis)
Diagnoses/Treats disorders of a newborn

17. Change of Shift Report
Communication process between shifts - in which nursing personnel who are leaving report nursing unit activities to coming on duty.
Total parenteral nutrition
No Known Allergies
Moving clot

18. -graph
Instrument used to record
Protected Health Information
Biopsy
Iris (colored part of eye)

19. derm / o
An assertive skill in which a person verbally accepts having made an error without letting it reflect on their worth as a human being.
Disease (word roots/combining forms)
Treats cancer through the use of radiation
Skin (word roots/combining forms)

20. Leuokocyte
Milliequivelant
Bedside commode
White Blood Cells
Red

21. COA or C of A
Tumor
A measurement of energy or heat
Conditions of Admission
Microgram

22. Name Alert

23. ambulate
Walk
Computer Physician Order Entry
Skin (word roots/combining forms)
Speech

24. NM
Midnight
Protected Health Info
Artery
No Known Food Allergies

25. cost/o
Rib
Across or through
Fat
Urinalysis

26. Anesthesiologist
A tubular instrument (rigid or flexible) with a light source and a viewing lens for observation that can be inserted through a body orifice or through a small incision.
Study of
Administers drugs or gases to produce loss of consciousness or sensation in the pt. Care during/after surgery as well.
Immediately

27. N/V
Nausea & vomiting
A graphic recording of the electrical impulses that the heart generated during the cardiac cycle.
To suture (surgical) repair
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

28. Laceration
A wound that is produced by tearing of body tissue.
Within
Rapid flow
To have the pt sit on edge of bed and dangle feet

29. PCN
Penicillin
A person's needs to have affectionate relationships w/ppl & to have a place in a group.
Pertaining to below (body directional terms)
Milliequivalent

30. Self-Esteem
Diagnoses/Treats disorders of a newborn
Confidence and respect for oneself.
Tissue (word roots/combining forms)
Bathroom privileges

31. Bili
Bilirubin
(can get at young age) 'Dementia' = Shrinkage of the brain
Eyelid
Pertaining to in back of (body directional terms)

32. mening/o
Meninges (spinal cord covering)
Walk
Pertaining to the side (body directional terms)
Eyelid

33. Automatic Stop Date
Enlargement
Date in which a specific category of meds must discontinue unless review by a Dr.
Blood being held back
Long-Term Care

34. KUB (also cld a flat plate of abdome)

35. Neuro
A technique that uses radioactive materials to examine anatomy and functional capacity of an organ
Body
Neurology
Electroencephalogram (test to check electricity in the brain)

36. phleb/o
Midnight
Kidney
Vein
A tubular instrument (rigid or flexible) with a light source and a viewing lens for observation that can be inserted through a body orifice or through a small incision.

37. Ruptured Disk
Fracture
(cushion between the bones of vertebra)
Registered Dietician
Farther from another structure (body directional terms)

38. q
Electroencephalogram (test to check electricity in the brain)
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Every
Extends from brainstem through spinal cavity to between the 1st and 2nd lumbar verebrae. It's the patway for conducting sensory impulses up to the brain and motor impulses back down from the brain.

39. myocardium
Fasting Blood Sugar
The thickest muscular middle layer of the heart
Makes up the muscles of the body that contract and relax to produce movement.
Registered Dietician

40. -genic
A graphic recording of the electrical impulses that the heart generated during the cardiac cycle.
Lamina (bony arch of the vertebrae)
Producing - originating - causing (word roots/combining forms)
Book to record all admissions/discharges/and transfers on a nursing unit

41. CMS
Registered Dietitian. One who has completed and education program/served an internship/and passed the exam given by the American Dietetic Assoc.
Every hour or every (fill in #) hour
Circulation - motion - sensation
Without development (a decrease in normal size of an organ)

42. CDSS
No Known Allergies
Electricity - electrical activity
White
Clinical Decision Support System

43. Nerve Tissue
Artery
Hair (word roots/combining forms)
Neurological vital signs/checks degree or hour
Forms parts of the nervous system - which conducts electrochemical impulses and helps to coordinate body activities.

44. FF
While awake
Force Fluids
Destruction of a pt's immune system. Highly susceptible to infections.
Pertaining to

45. Normal HR
Treatment
Spleen
60-80 (smoker 80-100 / anything below 40 not OK)
Creating an artificial opening into

46. Ca or Ca+
Calcium (Can also mean cancer)
Pro re nata (as needed)
Doctor of Osteopathy
Between

47. enteritis
A portable device that records the heart's electrical activity and produces a continuous EKG tracing over a specific period.
Inflammation of small bowel
Health Maintenance Organization
One of the primary lymphatic organs. Development of the body's defenses against infection by promoting the maturation of cells that provide immune responses.

48. -graphy
Process of recording an x-ray - imaging - taking a picture
Excessive discharge - flow
Femur (thigh bone)
Hemoglobin

49. Orthopedist
Pertaining to below (body directional terms)
Diagnoses/Treats diseases or fractures of the musculoskeletal system
Above
Inj. of a med into a muscle

50. -stenosis
Narrowing
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Respiratory syncytial virus (can live on surface for 7 days)