NCLEX words

Small pieces of crushed ice that a client sucks on to moisten the mouth and get small amounts of fluid.

The forming of thoughts or ideas, especially repeated thoughts about a particular act.

Action the nurse must take right away, such as checking further, acting or reporting.

A loss or weakening of a body function or ability, such as sight, hearing, movement or thinking.

To carry out a plan or action; in the nursing process, to put the planned interventions into practice.

Done face to face, with the people physically in the same place, not by phone or video.

Something that encourages a person to do something, such as a reward or a visible goal.

A written record of an unexpected event in a health care setting that caused or could have caused harm.

A safety step in which a second qualified person checks a medication on their own, without being told the expected result, before it is given.

A person's agreement to a treatment or procedure, given freely after the risks, benefits and other choices have been explained to them.

The more complex tasks a person needs to live on their own, such as managing money, medicines, shopping and cooking.

What a person takes into the body, especially fluids or food, counted over a set time.

The measured record of all fluids a client takes in and all fluids that leave the body over a set time.

Starting and stopping; happening at intervals rather than all the time.

Happening between people, such as communication, relationships or conflict between two or more people.

Involving people from two or more health professions working together.

Health workers from different professions who plan and give a client's care together.

An action taken to help a client, such as a treatment, a test, a teaching session or a nursing action.

Coming from inside, or belonging naturally to something itself.

Intruding on a person's private life or sharing their private information or images without permission.

Entering the body through the skin or a body opening; for a cancer or infection, spreading into nearby tissue.

Not able to be undone or changed back to the way it was before.

Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment, Request, Repeat back: a set order for sharing client information.

Extra infection-control measures, added to standard precautions, for clients known or thought to have certain contagious infections.