Speech Therapy
SLP stands for this
What is Speech Language Pathologist?
An OT might use a compression glove, elevation, lymphedema massage, compression wrap or taping techniques to address this.
What is Hand Edema?
Tool or scale that nursing uses to determine fall risk.
What is the Morse fall score?
Required at admission and discharge, these are submitted for every patient.
What are Quality Indicators?
Roll the patient on their side, bring feet off the bed, encourage patient to push up with their hand and elbow are the best techniques to perform this mobility activity.
What is a supine to sit transfer?
The perfect score on a Westmead test.
What is 12?
Desire to improve cognitive problem solving, standing tolerance and balance, fine motor and UE skills, functional tasks necessary to eating, and/or ability to follow directions mare reasons to do this activity.
What is cooking?
The number of years a nurse must work on a rehab unit before being eligible to take the CRRN exam.
What is 2 years?
This is required to be performed by the eighth day of the patients stay.
What is team conference?
Bilateral lower extremity non-weight bearing, amputee with weak intact leg, complete thoracic or lumbar SCI, and/or patient is unable to keep legs from buckling in a standing position are reasons to use this transfer method.
What is a slide board transfer?
The thicker of these liquids: Level 5 or Level 1
What is Level 1?
A 9 hole peg test, AMPS, or PASS.
What are standardized tests used by Occupational Therapists?
The patient has cloudy, foul-smelling urine with no other symptoms, a nurse should send a UA to test for infection. (true/false)
What is false?
The acronym IRF-PAI stands for this.
What is the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - Patient Assessment Instrument?
This assessment includes picking an object up off the floor, tandem stance, sit to stand without hands and reaching.
What is the Berg balance test?
A swallowing technique that is commonly recommended by non-SLP, but is not typically appropriate for every patient.
What is a chin tuck?
Brock string exercises are performed by occupational therapists to specifically help with this.
What is vision?
Amount of time a nurse has to initiate a care plan after an admission.
What is 24 hours?
The total minimum number of therapy minutes a patient must have over 5 out of 7 days.
What is 900?
Indicators for this are foot drop, knee hyperextension, ankle instability or tone.
What is an Ankle-Foot-Orthotic?
Risk factors for this are impaired health status, poor oral hygiene, and impaired airway protection.
What is aspiration pneumonia?
The 8 areas of occupational therapy
What are ADLs, IADLs, work, play, sleep/rest, social participation, leisure, and education?
What a patient must have before a bowel program can be initiated.
What is a clean, empty bowel?
In addition to progress to goals and Plan of Care, this is the other topic that needs to be addressed during team conference.
What are resolutions to barriers to meeting goals?
This is a predictor of ambulation in the community, falls, as well as longevity of life.
What is the 10 meter walk test?