Fundamentals of Nursing Study Guide & Flashcard Index - 2023 Update
Here is the list of topics covered in our Fundamentals of Nursing Flashcards (Edition 3), which can be used as an easy reference guide for your flashcards. This is also an essential list of the Fundamentals topics to know for your nursing exams!
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Topic | Card # | Section |
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24-Hour Urine Collection | 117 | Practice & Skills |
Abandonment | 10, 160 | Principles, Gerontology |
Accommodating | 171 | Leadership |
Acid/Base Imbalances | 100-101 | Practice & Skills |
Active Artificial Immunity | 35 | Principles |
Active Natural Immunity | 35 | Principles |
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) | 69 | Practice & Skills |
Acute Illness | 36 | Principles |
Acute Pain | 58 | Practice & Skills |
Acute v. Chronic Priority | 164 | Leadership |
Adjuvant Analgesics | 60 | Practice & Skills |
Advance Directives | 7 | Principles |
Adverse Event | 175 | Leadership |
Advocacy | 3 | Principles |
Aerosol Mask | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Aggregate | 176 | Community Health |
Air Pollution | 180 | Community Health |
Airborne Precautions | 51 | Practice & Skills |
Airway, Breathing, Circulation | 163 | Leadership |
Alzheimer's Disease | 156 | Gerontology |
American Nurses Association (ANA) | 2 | Principles |
Anthrax | 194 | Community Health |
Anticipatory Grief | 66 | Practice & Skills |
Artificial Airways | 139 | Practice & Skills |
Assault | 9 | Principles |
Attack Rate | 192 | Community Health |
Authoritarian Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Autocratic Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Autonomy | 3 | Principles |
Avoiding | 171 | Leadership |
Battery | 9 | Principles |
Bed Baths | 55 | Practice & Skills |
Bed Making | 55 | Practice & Skills |
BEERS List | 159 | Gerontology |
Beneficence | 3 | Principles |
Bioterrorism | 194 | Community Health |
Bladder Scanner | 121 | Practice & Skills |
Body Mass Index (BMI) | 104 | Practice & Skills |
Bomb Threat | 38 | Principles |
Bowel Elimination | 125-130 | Practice & Skills |
Brachytherapy | 41 | Principles |
Breakthrough Pain | 58 | Practice & Skills |
Calcium (Ca) | 96 | Practice & Skills |
Canes | 72 | Practice & Skills |
Capillary Blood Glucose Measurement | 108 | Practice & Skills |
Carbohydrates | 102 | Practice & Skills |
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning | 182 | Community Health |
Case Manager | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Chain of Infection | 32-33 | Principles |
Chemical Exposure | 38 | Principles |
Chemically-Impaired Employees | 173 | Leadership |
Chest Physiotherapy | 135 | Practice & Skills |
Chest Tubes | 137-138 | Practice & Skills |
Chronic Illness | 36 | Principles |
Chronic Pain | 58 | Practice & Skills |
Circadian Rhythm | 62 | Practice & Skills |
Clean Catch Urine Specimen | 117 | Practice & Skills |
Clear Liquid Diet | 106 | Practice & Skills |
Collaborating | 171 | Leadership |
Colostomy | 126 | Practice & Skills |
Communication | 18-21, 154 | Principles, Gerontology |
Community | 176 | Community Health |
Community Assessment | 190 | Community Health |
Community Health Plan | 189 | Community Health |
Community-Based Nursing | 176 | Community Health |
Community-Oriented Nursing | 176 | Community Health |
Competing | 171 | Leadership |
Complementary & Alternative Medicine | 29 | Principles |
Complicated Grief | 66 | Practice & Skills |
Compromising | 171 | Leadership |
Conflict Management Strategies | 171 | Leadership |
Conflicts | 170-171 | Leadership |
Constipation | 125 | Practice & Skills |
Contact Precautions | 50 | Practice & Skills |
Convalescence | 34 | Principles |
Critical Pathways | 169 | Leadership |
Crutches | 73-74 | Practice & Skills |
Cultural Considerations | 26-28 | Principles |
Culturally Competent Care | 26 | Principles |
Cutaneous Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) | 70 | Practice & Skills |
Defamation of Character | 9 | Principles |
Delegation | 166-168 | Leadership |
Delirium | 157 | Gerontology |
Dementia | 157 | Gerontology |
Democratic Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Denture Care | 56 | Practice & Skills |
Depression | 157 | Gerontology |
Determinants of Health | 179 | Community Health |
Diabetic Foot Care | 90 | Practice & Skills |
Diarrhea | 125 | Practice & Skills |
Diffusion | 131 | Practice & Skills |
Direct Observation | 190 | Community Health |
Disaster Mitigation | 195 | Community Health |
Disaster Preparedness | 195 | Community Health |
Disaster Recovery | 195 | Community Health |
Disaster Response | 195 | Community Health |
Disasters | 195 | Community Health |
Disciplinary Action | 173 | Leadership |
Disenfranchised Grief | 66 | Practice & Skills |
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) | 7 | Principles |
Documentation | 4, 25 | Principles |
Domains of Learning | 22 | Principles |
Droplet Precautions | 51 | Practice & Skills |
Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) | 7 | Principles |
Dysphagia | 105 | Practice & Skills |
Dysphagia Diet | 106 | Practice & Skills |
Efficient Nursing Practice | 169 | Leadership |
Elder Mistreatment | 160-161 | Gerontology |
Employee Performance Appraisal | 172 | Leadership |
Endemic | 192 | Community Health |
Enemas | 128-129 | Practice & Skills |
Enteral Nutrition | 112-114 | Practice & Skills |
Environmental Hazards | 180-182 | Community Health |
Epidemic | 192 | Community Health |
Epidemiologic Triangle | 191 | Community Health |
Epidemiology | 191-192 | Community Health |
Equipment Malfunction | 38 | Principles |
Erikson's Stages of Development | 14 | Principles |
Ethnocentrism | 26 | Principles |
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) | 1 | Principles |
External Urine Collection Devices | 123 | Practice & Skills |
Face Tent | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Faith-Based Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Fall Preventions | 75-76 | Practice & Skills |
False Imprisonment | 9 | Principles |
Family Assessment Tools | 188 | Community Health |
Family Health Risks | 188 | Community Health |
Family Nursing | 188 | Community Health |
Family Systems Theory | 188 | Community Health |
Fats | 102 | Practice & Skills |
Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) | 130 | Practice & Skills |
Fidelity | 3 | Principles |
Fire Safety | 37 | Principles |
Fluid Volume Deficit | 94 | Practice & Skills |
Fluid Volume Excess | 95 | Practice & Skills |
Food Deserts | 180 | Community Health |
Foodborne Illness | 107 | Practice & Skills |
Fowler's | 30 | Principles |
Full Liquid Diet | 106 | Practice & Skills |
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | 64 | Practice & Skills |
Grief | 65-66 | Practice & Skills |
Hand Hygiene | 48 | Practice & Skills |
Health Belief Model | 16 | Principles |
Health Literacy | 23 | Principles |
Hemostasis | 82 | Practice & Skills |
High-Fowler's | 30 | Principles |
HIPAA | 8 | Principles |
Home Health Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Home Oxygen Safety | 141 | Practice & Skills |
Homeless | 183 | Community Health |
Hospice Care | 67 | Practice & Skills |
Hospice Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) | 46-47 | Practice & Skills |
Hypercalcemia | 96 | Practice & Skills |
Hyperkalemia | 98 | Practice & Skills |
Hypermagnesemia | 97 | Practice & Skills |
Hypernatremia | 99 | Practice & Skills |
Hypertonic | 91 | Practice & Skills |
Hypocalcemia | 96 | Practice & Skills |
Hypokalemia | 98 | Practice & Skills |
Hypomagnesemia | 97 | Practice & Skills |
Hyponatremia | 99 | Practice & Skills |
Hypotonic | 91 | Practice & Skills |
Hypoxemia | 132 | Practice & Skills |
Hypoxia | 132 | Practice & Skills |
Idiopathic Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Ileostomy | 126 | Practice & Skills |
Immobility | 68-71 | Practice & Skills |
Incentive Spirometer | 133 | Practice & Skills |
Incidence | 192 | Community Health |
Incident Reporting | 175 | Leadership |
Incubation | 34 | Principles |
Indwelling Urinary Catheter | 122, 124 | Practice & Skills |
Infection Control | 46-54 | Practice & Skills |
Infectious Agent | 32-33 | Principles |
Inflammatory Phase | 82 | Practice & Skills |
Informant Interviews | 190 | Community Health |
Informed Consent | 4-5 | Principles |
Injury Prevention | 40 | Principles |
Insensible Losses | 93 | Practice & Skills |
Insomnia | 63 | Practice & Skills |
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living | 69 | Practice & Skills |
Intentional Torts | 9 | Principles |
Intergroup Conflict | 170 | Leadership |
Intermittent Catheter | 122 | Practice & Skills |
Internal Radiation | 41 | Principles |
Interpersonal Conflict | 170 | Leadership |
Intraoperative Care | 143 | Practice & Skills |
Intrapersonal Conflict | 170 | Leadership |
Invasion of Privacy | 9 | Principles |
Invasive Procedures | 165 | Leadership |
Isotonic | 91 | Practice & Skills |
Justice | 3 | Principles |
Kohlberg's Theory of Development | 12 | Principles |
Laissez-Faire Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Lateral | 31 | Principles |
Laxatives | 128 | Practice & Skills |
Lead Poisoning | 181 | Community Health |
Leadership Styles | 162 | Leadership |
Leaving Against Medical Advice (AMA) | 6 | Principles |
LGBT+ | 183 | Community Health |
Lithotomy | 31 | Principles |
Living Will | 7 | Principles |
LPNs | 168 | Leadership |
LVNs | 168 | Leadership |
Macronutrients | 102 | Practice & Skills |
Magnesium (Mg) | 97 | Practice & Skills |
Malpractice | 10 | Principles |
Mandatory Reporting | 11 | Principles |
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | 13, 163 | Principles, Leadership |
Mass Casualty Event | 196 | Community Health |
Maturation | 82 | Practice & Skills |
Medicaid | 185 | Community Health |
Medicare | 185 | Community Health |
Metabolic Acidosis | 101 | Practice & Skills |
Metabolic Alkalosis | 101 | Practice & Skills |
Micronutrients | 103 | Practice & Skills |
Migrant Workers | 183 | Community Health |
Mobility Devices | 72-74 | Practice & Skills |
Mode of Transmission | 32-33 | Principles |
Modifiable Risk Factors | 36 | Principles |
Modified Left Lateral Recumbent Position | 31 | Principles |
Narcolepsy | 63 | Practice & Skills |
Nasal Cannula | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Nasogastric Tubes | 109-111 | Practice & Skills |
Nationally Notifiable Diseases | 193 | Community Health |
Near Miss | 175 | Leadership |
Negligence | 10 | Principles |
Neuropathic Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Nociceptive Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Non-Modifiable Risk Factors | 36 | Principles |
Non-Rebreather | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Nonmaleficence | 3 | Principles |
Nonopioid Analgesics | 60 | Practice & Skills |
Nontherapeutic Communication | 21 | Principles |
Nonverbal Communication | 19 | Principles |
Normal Grief | 66 | Practice & Skills |
NPO | 106 | Practice & Skills |
Nursing Practice Act (NPA) | 1 | Principles |
Nursing Process | 42, 163, 189 | Practice & Skills, Leadership, Community Health |
Occupational Hazards | 180 | Community Health |
Occupational Health Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Occupational Therapist | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Occurrence Reporting | 175 | Leadership |
Opioid Analgesics | 60 | Practice & Skills |
Oral Care | 56 | Practice & Skills |
Osmolarity | 91-92 | Practice & Skills |
Ostomies | 126-127 | Practice & Skills |
Oxygen Safety | 141 | Practice & Skills |
Oxygen Toxicity | 132 | Practice & Skills |
Oxygenation | 131-141 | Practice & Skills |
Pain | 58-61 | Practice & Skills |
Palliative Care | 67 | Practice & Skills |
Pandemic | 192 | Community Health |
Parenteral Nutrition | 115 | Practice & Skills |
Parish Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Parkinson's Disease | 155 | Gerontology |
Partial Rebreather | 134 | Practice & Skills |
PASS Sequence | 37 | Principles |
Passive Artificial Immunity | 35 | Principles |
Passive Natural Immunity | 35 | Principles |
Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) | 61 | Practice & Skills |
Patient Education | 22-24 | Principles |
Patient Positions | 30-31 | Principles |
Patient Safety Events | 175 | Leadership |
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) | 7 | Principles |
Performance Appraisal | 172 | Leadership |
Perfusion | 131 | Practice & Skills |
Perioperative Care | 142-144 | Practice & Skills |
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | 49 | Practice & Skills |
Physical Therapist | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Piaget's Theory of Development | 15 | Principles |
POLST | 7 | Principles |
Polypharmacy | 158 | Gerontology |
Portal of Entry | 32-33 | Principles |
Portal of Exit | 32-33 | Principles |
Positive Airway Pressure | 135 | Practice & Skills |
Post-Anesthesia Care | 143 | Practice & Skills |
Postoperative Care | 143-144 | Practice & Skills |
Potassium (K) | 98 | Practice & Skills |
Practical Nurses | 168 | Leadership |
Preoperative Care | 142 | Practice & Skills |
Presbycusis | 153 | Gerontology |
Presbyopia | 152 | Gerontology |
Pressure Injuries | 80-81 | Practice & Skills |
Prevalence | 192 | Community Health |
Prevention Levels | 178 | Community Health |
Primary Intention | 83 | Practice & Skills |
Primary Prevention | 178 | Community Health |
Prodromal | 34 | Principles |
Proliferation | 82 | Practice & Skills |
Prone | 30 | Principles |
Protective Isolation | 52 | Practice & Skills |
Proteins | 102 | Practice & Skills |
Provider | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Quality Improvement (QI) | 174 | Leadership |
RACE Sequence | 37 | Principles |
Rectal Suppositories | 128 | Practice & Skills |
Referred Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Reservoir | 32-33 | Principles |
Respiratory Acidosis | 100 | Practice & Skills |
Respiratory Alkalosis | 100 | Practice & Skills |
Respiratory Therapist | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Respite Care | 161 | Gerontology |
Restraints | 77-79 | Practice & Skills |
Restrictive Procedures | 165 | Leadership |
Reverse Trendelenburg | 31 | Principles |
Right to Refuse | 6 | Principles |
SBAR Communication | 44 | Practice & Skills |
School Nurse | 177 | Community Health |
Secondary Analysis | 190 | Community Health |
Secondary Intention | 83 | Practice & Skills |
Secondary Prevention | 178 | Community Health |
Seizures | 57 | Practice & Skills |
Semi-Fowler's | 30 | Principles |
Sensible Losses | 93 | Practice & Skills |
Sentinel Event | 175 | Leadership |
Sharps Injury | 39 | Principles |
Simple Face Mask | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Sims' (Modified Left Lateral Recumbent) Position | 31 | Principles |
Sleep | 62-63 | Practice & Skills |
Sleep Apnea | 63 | Practice & Skills |
Sleep Hygiene | 63 | Practice & Skills |
Smallpox | 194 | Community Health |
SMART Goal | 42 | Practice & Skills |
Smoothing | 171 | Leadership |
Social Worker | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Sodium (Na) | 99 | Practice & Skills |
Soft Diet | 106 | Practice & Skills |
Somatic Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Speech Language Pathologist | 43 | Practice & Skills |
Stages of Infection | 34 | Principles |
Standard Precautions | 50 | Practice & Skills |
Staples | 88 | Practice & Skills |
State Boards of Nursing (BON) | 1 | Principles |
Sterile Dressing | 87 | Practice & Skills |
Sterile Fields | 53-54 | Practice & Skills |
Sterile Specimen | 117 | Practice & Skills |
Straight Catheter | 122 | Practice & Skills |
Stress Incontinence | 118 | Practice & Skills |
Suctioning | 135-136 | Practice & Skills |
Sundowning | 156 | Gerontology |
Supine | 30 | Principles |
Suprapubic Catheter | 123 | Practice & Skills |
Surveys | 190 | Community Health |
Survivability Potential | 165 | Leadership |
Susceptible Host | 32-33 | Principles |
Sutures | 88 | Practice & Skills |
Tertiary Intention | 83 | Practice & Skills |
Tertiary Prevention | 178 | Community Health |
Therapeutic Communication | 20 | Principles |
Tornado | 38 | Principles |
Tracheostomy | 139-140 | Practice & Skills |
Transactional Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Transformational Leadership | 162 | Leadership |
Transmission Precautions | 50-51 | Practice & Skills |
Transtheoretical Model | 17 | Principles |
Trendelenburg | 31 | Principles |
Triage | 196 | Community Health |
Unintentional Torts | 10 | Principles |
Universal Precautions | 50 | Practice & Skills |
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAPs) | 167 | Leadership |
Urge Incontinence | 118 | Practice & Skills |
Urinalysis | 117 | Practice & Skills |
Urinary Catheters | 122-124 | Practice & Skills |
Urinary Elimination | 116-124 | Practice & Skills |
Urinary Incontinence | 118 | Practice & Skills |
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) | 119-120 | Practice & Skills |
Urine Specific Gravity | 116 | Practice & Skills |
Ventilation | 131 | Practice & Skills |
Venturi Mask | 134 | Practice & Skills |
Veracity | 3 | Principles |
Veterans | 183 | Community Health |
Violence | 184 | Community Health |
Visceral Pain | 59 | Practice & Skills |
Vulnerable Populations | 183 | Community Health |
Walkers | 72 | Practice & Skills |
Water Contamination | 180 | Community Health |
Windshield Survey | 190 | Community Health |
Wound Culture | 86 | Practice & Skills |
Wound Drainage | 85 | Practice & Skills |
Wound Drains | 89 | Practice & Skills |
Wound Healing | 82-85 | Practice & Skills |
Wound Irrigation | 86 | Practice & Skills |