Personal Care Skills
The term for caring for fingernails, hair, dressing bathing ect is?
What Is grooming?
This is the term for rapid breathing rate
What is tachypnea
Two signs of dehydration
dry mouth, dizziness,
The classification of standard cleaning environment as apposed to a sterile one
What is non sterile
Fluid intake is recorded in?
What is Milliliters (mL)?
These are the characteristics of skin after found in in elderly patients
What is thin fragile skin
This is the name for the top number in a blood pressure reading
What is systolic pressure?
What is edema?
This is the amount of times a day a patients oral care should performed at minimum
What is 2 times?
What is the face, neck, hands, underarms, perineum, buttocks, and fold?
One occurs before surgery and the other occurs after surgery
What is pre operative and post operative care
This type of diet a person without any health problems is likely to eat
What us a regular diet
This is the main purpose of using sterile dressings on an open wound
What is to prevent infection and to be bacteria free?
The PCT should use this part of the body to check the temperature of bath water before bathing a patient?
What is the inside of the wrist
This acronym refers to the routine tasks people preform everyday
Activities of daily living
Four vital signs that must be monitored
What is temp heart rate blood pressure reparation systolic pressrre
This diet limits salt and Is often used for patient with high blood pressure, heart disease kidney failure
what is the low sodium diet
Tiny organisms are the cause skin infections like scabies
What are mites
A PCT should avoid putting lotion between a patients toes because?
What is preventing excess moisture and skin breakdown
This is the act of inhaling of food, fluid, or foreign material into the lungs
What is aspiration
When blood pressure is measured sitting up laying down and staring up
What is orthostatic blood pressure
A patient drinks 6 ounces 0f water using the standard conversion, how many ml should like
180 ML
Pressure points are the areas that cover the bodies_____ prominences
What is bony
This is a normal pulse oximetry reading for an adult
What is 95% to 100%?