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NCLEX Terminology: 200+ Must-Know Terms for RN/PN Exam
Nurse terminology is the language used by nurses to describe aspects of patient care. It is a specialized language that nurses use to communicate with each other and with other healthcare professionals. This is the language that can be understood by other nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals.
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Health PromotionPhysiological IntegrityPsychosocial IntegritySafe & Effective EnvironmentTerms & Abbreviations
Health Promotion
Physiological Integrity↑ Top
- Absence seizure
- Assessment
- Celiac Disease
- Cheyne-Stokes breathing
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Hodgkin's Disease
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Intermittent claudication
- Iron-deficiency Anemia values
- Kawasaki Disease
- Leukemia
- Metabolic Acidosis
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Nonverbal pain indicators
- Osteosarcoma
- Pressure ulcer
- Respiratory Acidosis
- Respiratory Alkalosis
- Rights of Medication Administration
- Rotavirus
- Rule of Nines
- Sepsis
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
Psychosocial Integrity↑ Top
- Acknowledgment
- Affect
- Ageism
- Ambivalence
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Conversion disorder
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Depression
- Depression characteristics
- Detachment
- Munchausen Syndrome
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Rape
- Reaction formation
- Regressive behavior
- Schizophrenia
- Separation Anxiety
- Tonic-clonic seizure
- Tourette's syndrome
- Unwarranted reassurance
Safe & Effective Environment↑ Top
- Advocacy
- Airborne precautions
- Bioterrorism
- Brudzinki's Sign
- Contact precautions
- Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) requirement
- Droplet precautions
- Durable Power of Healthcare Attorney
- Enteric precautions
- Informed Consent
- Kerig's Sign
- Medical asepsis
- Nosocomial infection
- Pre-eclampsia
- Protective precautions
- Standard precautions
- Surgical asepsis
Terms & Abbreviations↑ Top
- A.B.C.
- Abduction
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Adduction
- Advanced Directives
- Agoraphobia
- Angina
- Anorexia nervosa
- Aphasia
- Assault
- Autoimmune disease
- Autonomy
- Battery
- Beneficence
- Bipolar disorder
- Bulemia nervosa
- Calcium normal values
- Chickenpox
- Compensation
- Conjunctivitis
- Cyanosis
- Decerebrate
- Decorticate
- Delusion
- Dementia
- Denial
- Diphtheria
- Displacement
- DKA
- DVT
- Dysphagia
- Epilepsy
- Epistaxis
- Erythema
- Expressive aphasia
- Extension
- Fetal position
- Fidelity
- Flexion
- Fowler's position
- Hallucinations
- Hemiparesis
- Hemiplegia
- HIPAA
- Homeostasis
- Incontinence
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Introjection
- Intussusception
- Jaundice
- Justice
- LOC
- Magnesium normal values
- Malpractice
- Manic or mania
- Meningitis
- MRSA
- Mumps
- Neglect
- Negligence
- Nonmaleficence
- P.A.S.S.
- Pallor
- Paternalism
- Pertussis
- Phantom pain
- Phosphorus normal values
- Postprandial
- Potassium normal values
- Projection
- Prosthesis
- PTSD
- R.A.C.E.
- Rationalization
- Receptive aphasia
- Referred pain
- Refractory
- Restraint
- Roseola
- Rotation
- Rubella
- Rubeola
- Scarlet fever
- Sclerosis
- Scoliosis
- Seizure
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- Sexual harassment
- SIDS
- Sims position
- Sodium normal values
- Stoma
- Strabismus
- Sundowner's Syndrome
- Supine position
- Suppression
- Tinnitus
- Trendelenburg position
- Veracity
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