Across
- 1. Use of gloves, mask, gown for protection
- 3. First step before swabbing a wound
- 7. Blood marker that increases in response to infection or inflammation (3)
- 8. Lab test to monitor kidney filtration rate
- 9. Type of infection with erythema, swelling, tenderness
- 10. Specimen type required for MCS in urinary tract infection
- 12. Initials for test measuring white cells
- 13. Yellow wound drainage often indicating infection
- 14. Legal term for giving medicine
- 17. A key component of sepsis management — early administration of this
- 18. Acute infection that may cause hypotension and organ dysfunction
Down
- 1. Infection of the kidney
- 2. A nurse’s role when detecting patient deterioration
- 4. Medical term for low haemoglobin
- 5. Sputum test to identify causative bacteria
- 6. Antibiotic used for cellulitis
- 11. Acronym for rapid COVID screening test
- 13. Pathogen often found in UTIs
- 15. Drug route used in severe infections
- 16. What an enrolled nursing student must always work within during clinical placement