Dictionary

NCLEX words

The exam's own working vocabulary: assess, reinforce, prioritize, UAP and the rest.

malpracticeNegligence by a professional, such as a nurse or doctor, that harms a client.

mandatory reportingA legal duty to report certain things, such as suspected abuse or some diseases, to the proper authorities.

mass casualty triageSorting many injured people quickly by need when there are more victims than staff and supplies can treat at once.

medical asepsisClean technique: practices that lower the number of germs and stop them spreading from one person or object to another.

medical diagnosisThe name of a disease or condition, given by a physician or other provider, that explains a client's signs and symptoms.

medical interpreterA trained person who changes spoken or signed words from one language to another so clients and health care workers understand each other.

medication reconciliationComparing a client's full list of current medicines with new orders at each change in care, to find and fix differences.

mental statusA person's state of mind at a given time: how alert they are, what they know and how they think, speak and behave.

mishearTo hear something wrongly.

misstateTo say or write something wrongly.

monitorTo watch, check or measure something again and again over a period of time.

moodA person's inner emotional state that lasts over time, as the person describes it.