NCLEX words

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To hear something wrongly.

To say or write something wrongly.

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

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