Nursing Abbreviations

ISBARR

Identify,Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendations, Read Back Orders.

PQRST Method

The PQRST method asks questions that will extract more specific answers.

• Provocation/Palliation. What were you doing when the pain started? What makes it better? What makes it worse? What triggers the pain? What relieves it?

• Quality. Describe the pain. Is it dull or sharp? Is it stabbing, throbbing, or cramping?

• Region. Where is the pain? Does it radiate? Is it localized?

• Severity. How severe is it? Does it interfere with activities? How long does it last?

• Timing. What time did it start? How long does an episode last? Is it sudden or gradual onset? Occur during day? Night?

ADL

Active Daily Living

10 original additional rights (DPMATERFRSD)

Documentation, patient, medication, assessment, time, education, right to refuse, form (of med), route( oral? Iv?), strength or dose

10 traps of interviewing (PGAADPLTIA)

Providing false information, giving unwanted advice, using authority, avoiding language, distancing, profession jargon, leading biased questions, talking too much, interrupting, asking why

ANA

American Nursing Association

SBAR

What you give at the end of a shift: Situation, Background, Assessment, recommendation, request

PQRSTU Mnemonic

Proactive or palliative, quality or quantity, region or radiation, serverity scale, timing onset, understanding pts perception of problem

Family Genogram

This information shows family tree and cross cultural implications for things like nutrition past health and other things that run in the family

CAGE Test

Test that asks questions about alcoholics. Cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener.

How far do you go for past health history?

5 years

4 unrelated words test

Memory test where you choose 4 words that do not rhyme then pt recalls those 4 words at 5,10, and 30 mins,

Younger than 60 (<60) 3 or 4 word recall after 5,10,30

Alzheimer’s and dementia cannot recall any or 1 word