NCLEX words

Compressions, airway, breathing: the order of steps the American Heart Association teaches for CPR.

Emergency chest compressions, with or without rescue breaths, to keep blood flowing when the heart has stopped.

A person who looks after someone who needs help, such as a family member, friend or paid helper.

The coordination of a client's care and services across settings and providers by one assigned professional.

The order of authority in an organization: who reports to whom, from staff up through managers to leaders.

The person receiving nursing care; the word the NCLEX uses instead of patient.

Teaching a client, and often the family, what they need to know and do to manage their health.

The way a nurse notices, makes sense of and acts on information about a client to decide on the best care.

The thinking process a nurse uses to gather and make sense of client information, decide what is going on and choose what to do.

A question that can be answered with "yes," "no" or a short fact.

A hospital emergency call that brings the resuscitation team to a person whose heart or breathing has stopped.

A written set of moral principles and duties that guides the conduct of members of a profession.

A client's documented wishes for resuscitation if the heart or breathing stops.

To gather information about a client by asking, observing and measuring.

Care that aims to relieve pain and distress and give the best quality of life, rather than to cure, usually near the end of life.

A disease or condition that a person has at the same time as another, main condition.

The body's effort to make up for a problem in one system by changing how another works.

Having the knowledge, skill and judgment to do something well; in law, a person's ability to make their own decisions.

A specific skill or ability that a person has been shown to perform to an expected standard.

A charting phrase meaning the client tells the nurse about a symptom or problem.

The duty to keep a client's health information private and share it only with people who need it for care or are allowed by law.

How easily a person, especially a crying child, can be comforted.

A narrowing or tightening of a part, such as a blood vessel, an airway or the pupil.

Infection control steps, used on top of standard precautions, for germs that spread by touching the client or things around them.

Being unbroken over time; in health care, care that stays connected as a client moves between people and places.

Care that flows smoothly from one provider, shift or setting to the next, without gaps or repeated steps.

A reason not to give a drug or do a treatment, because in that person it could cause harm.

To offer data, observations and suggestions that help build a client's plan of care, without being the one who sets it.

The smooth working together of parts, such as muscles in a movement or team members in a client's care.

A thought or action a person uses, on purpose or by habit, to handle stress or difficult feelings.

Anything a person does or thinks to manage stress, a problem or difficult feelings.

To sign a record as a second person, confirming what another person did or wrote.

Talking with a trained person who helps someone understand a problem, make decisions or change behavior.

Short-term help for a person in a crisis, to keep them safe and help them cope and function again.

Careful, reasoned thinking that questions information and weighs evidence before reaching a conclusion.

A piece of information about a client, such as a sign, symptom, lab value or remark, that the nurse notices and uses to make a judgment.

A lifelong habit of self-reflection and learning in which the nurse treats each client as the expert on their own culture.