Nclex Nursing Fundamentals Safety

Practice 30 NCLEX-focused nursing fundamentals and safety terms

What You'll Learn

Prepare for NCLEX with nursing fundamentals and patient safety flashcards. Review prioritization, infection control, delegation, and safe clinical practice essentials.

Key Topics

Core safety frameworks and priority-setting
Infection prevention and isolation precautions
Medication and fall prevention essentials
Delegation and communication best practices

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How to study this deck

Start with a quick skim of the questions, then launch study mode to flip cards until you can answer each prompt without hesitation. Revisit tricky cards using shuffle or reverse order, and schedule a follow-up review within 48 hours to reinforce retention.

Preview: Nclex Nursing Fundamentals Safety

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Priority framework that addresses life-threatening needs first

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ABCs (Airway, Breathing, Circulation)

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Term for sorting patients by urgency

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Triage

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Legal concept requiring nurse to act as a reasonable nurse would

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Standard of care

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Failure to provide expected care causing harm

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Negligence

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Intentionally touching a patient without consent

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Battery

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Threatening a patient with unwanted touching

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Assault

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Process of giving another person authority to perform a task

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Delegation

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Five rights of delegation include right task, circumstance, person, direction, and

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Supervision

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Task that should NOT be delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel

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Initial assessment

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Precautions used for all patients regardless of diagnosis

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Standard precautions

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Hand hygiene is the most effective method to prevent

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Healthcare-associated infections

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Required PPE for droplet precautions

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Surgical mask

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Required room type for airborne precautions

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Negative-pressure room

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Isolation type for C. difficile

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Contact precautions

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Most common inpatient adverse event in older adults

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Falls

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Intervention that reduces risk of wrong-patient medication errors

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Two patient identifiers

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Medication administration check done before giving drug

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Verify rights of medication administration

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Clinical abbreviation indicating medications by mouth

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Position that helps prevent aspiration during feeding

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High Fowler's

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Unexpected event causing injury or risk in healthcare

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Safety incident

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Root-cause analysis aims to identify

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Underlying system factors

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Ethical principle of doing good for the patient

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Beneficence

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Ethical principle of avoiding harm

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Nonmaleficence

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Patient right to make informed healthcare decisions

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Autonomy

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Communication framework: Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation

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SBAR

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Most accurate way to verify understanding after teaching

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Teach-back method

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Early sign of hypoxia often seen first

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Restlessness

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Priority response for patient with sudden shortness of breath

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Assess airway and oxygenation immediately

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Scale used to assess pressure injury risk

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Braden Scale

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Frequent repositioning interval to prevent pressure injuries

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At least every 2 hours