Nursing Fundamentals

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn how a nurse decides what comes first: the priority rules, the five rights, infection control and what is never delegated.

Nursing examinations are rarely about facts. They are about which of four correct actions comes first, and that is a skill with rules.

100 cards on those rules. Airway before breathing before circulation. Acute before chronic. Assess before act, unless the action is life-saving. Maslow before preference. Then the content those rules are applied to: the five rights and the three checks, standard against transmission-based precautions, the pressure injury stages, what a falling blood pressure means and when it arrives.

No licensing examination's questions are reproduced. The examination boards own their item banks; the fact that a beta blocker requires an apical pulse belongs to nobody.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Assessment” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• The nursing process, and diagnosis against medical diagnosis
• Priority rules: ABC, acute against chronic, assess first
• Medication safety: five rights, three checks, high-alert drugs
• Infection control and what each precaution is for
• Ethics, delegation and what is never delegated

The categories

22 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Assessment
2. Communication
3. Critical
4. Emergency
5. Ethics
6. Fluids
7. Gastrointestinal
8. Infection
9. Infection control
10. Labs
11. Medication
12. Neurological
13. Oncology
14. Perioperative
15. Pharmacology
16. Practice
17. Priorities
18. Procedures
19. Process
20. Respiratory
21. Safety
22. Skin

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 100 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.