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Medications that reduce fluid volume. A high potassium diet is needed when on these medications.
What is diuretics?
According to My Plate's suggestions, what should make up half of a person's plate?
What are fruits and vegetables?
The amount of time after fluids are taken in a NA should offer to take a resident to the bathroom
What is 30 minutes
This may need to be increased in a resident's diet if he/she is prone to constipaiton
what is fiber and fluids
You always clean in this direction when performing catheter care
What is away from the meatus
Maintaining equal input and output
What is fluid balance?
List the resident's name and special information about diets, allergies, likes, dislikes, and other instructions
What is a diet card?
The normal color of urine
What is pale yellow to amber?
Patients with peptic ulcers should avoid
What is caffeine, smoking, alcohol
The wider end of this must be aligned with the residents buttocks when slid underneath the resident's hip
What is bed pan
Involuntary contractions that move food through the gastrointestinal system.
What is peristalsis
The amount of mL in 120 oz
What is 4 oz?
Four ways an NA can prevent UTI
What are: wiping front to back, careful peri care, encourage fluids, taking showers rather than baths
A resident must be placed in this position for an enema
The head of bed must be raised to this angle while a resident is getting fed
what is a 90 degree angle
Condition in which a blockage of arteries in the kidneys causes high blood pressure
What is renovascular hypertension?
The side of the mouth food should be directed if the resident has a weaker side
What is stronger
Urinary incontinence is a normal part of aging
what is false?
This should be emptied and cleaned every time a person expels stool
what is ostomy pouch/bag
the NA must adjust the bed to what height when feeing the resident
What is the resident's eye level
A surgically created opening into the end of the small intestine to allow stool to be expelled.
What is an ileostomy?
Helps the resident control fluid in the mouth and the throat
What is thickened liquid?
Also known as a mid-stream urine specimen
what is a clean catch urine specimen
This may indicate colon cancer or other GI illness
What is occult blood
When feeding a resident with poor vision, this is used to describe where food items are on the plate
what is imaginary clock