NCLEX words

A memory aid for the steps to take in a fire: Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish or Evacuate.

How far a joint can move in each of its normal directions, and the exercises that move joints through it.

A team of critical care staff who come quickly to the bedside of a client whose condition is getting worse.

Writing down a spoken order or test result and reading it back to the person who gave it, so they can confirm it is right.

Assessing a client again to see what has changed or how they responded to care.

The first step of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model: picking out the client information that matters most.

Turned red, used for skin or tissue that has become redder than normal.

The range of results for a lab test that is expected in healthy people, also called the normal range.

Sending a client to another professional, service or agency for care or help that they need.

A nurse who has passed the NCLEX-RN and holds a state license to practice as an RN.

To repeat and support teaching or care that has already been started, so the client remembers and follows it.

Changing a client's body position on a regular schedule, or moving a device to a new place.

Short-term care of a person so that their usual family caregiver can take a break.

Any device, drug or method used to limit a person's movement or behavior that they cannot easily remove or refuse.

Having a client or caregiver perform a skill they were just taught, while the nurse watches, to confirm they can do it correctly.

Five checks a nurse uses before handing a task to someone else: right task, circumstance, person, directions and communication, and supervision.

The checklist of things a nurse confirms each time before giving a medicine, such as the right client, drug, dose, route and time.

Ordinary air breathed without added oxygen; it is about 21% oxygen.

A structured review after a serious error or harmful event that looks for the underlying system problems that let it happen.

Able to be woken up.