Nursing Skills
Where the clean linens are set while preparing to make the client's bed.
What is a chair or table beside the bed?
The abbreviation for Activities of Daily Living.
What is ADLs?
The side a nursing assistant should use when assisting a client with right sided weakness during transfer.
What is the right side?
The only purpose for using a restraint.
What is ensuring the safety of the client or others?
The first area of the client's body to wash during a bed bath.
What is the client's face?
Disposing articles contaminated with blood or body fluids.
What is the biohazard container?
A healthcare team member who helps the client with activities of daily living.
What is an occupational therapist?
How to promote independence when bathing a client with a stroke.
What is allowing the client to do as much as possible.
Communication with a client who is hard of hearing.
What is facing the client when speaking?
How private information about the client is handled.
What is keeping the information private?
To avoid pulling the catheter out when turning a client.
What is securing the catheter tubing to the upper thigh?
The body part a nursing assistant should use when transferring a client.
What is the nursing assistant's legs?
How the nursing assistant ambulates a client who needs assistance.
What is providing help when walking with the client?
Caring for a client with memory loss or confusion.
What is giving the client simple step by step instructions?
The nursing assistant's first action when discovering a small fire in the client's room.
What is remove the client from danger?
Procedure performed prior to starting a 24-hour urine collection.
What is discarding the client's first void?
Action performed prior to taking a meal tray into the client's room.
What is checking for the client's name on the tray card?
How to promote independence when the client has trouble cutting up food.
What is help and encourage the use of special eating utensils?
Responding to a client who does not know what day it is.
What is point to the date on the calendar and say the date?
When providing care for a client on oxygen.
What is checking the ears for pressure points?
Taking an oral temperature after the client has had a cold drink.
What is waiting for 20 minutes?
Frequency of mouth care for a client who is unconscious.
What is every two hours?
Assisting a client to dress with left-sided weakness.
What is dressing the left side first?
The nursing assistant is asked to call the client's spiritual advisor.
What is informing the nurse of this request?
The best personal protective equipment when handling infectious waste that could splash or spray.
What is a facesheild?