ADL Basics
These are everyday tasks patients may need assistance completing, such as bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating.
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)?
When dressing a patient, you generally dress this arm first.
What is the affected/weak arm?
This item can be used to protect the patient's privacy and warmth during bathing.
What is a bath blanket?
Brushing or combing a patient's hair is an example of this ADL
What is grooming?
Before assisting a patient with eating, the healthcare worker should make sure the patient is positioned safely in this position.
What is the fowler's position?
Before assisting a patient with an ADL, this should be performed to reduce the spread of microorganisms.
What is handwashing/hand hygiene
Individual agencies have specific ? that their employees must follow?
What are procedures?
Before starting a bed bath, the water temperature should be checked to help prevent this.
What is a burn?
Avoid this type of razor when shaving someone on oxygen
What is an electric razor
This serious safety concern can occur when food or liquid enters the airway.
What is aspiration?
A healthcare worker should protect this by closing the door, pulling the curtain, and covering the patient appropriately.
What is privacy?
Why should a healthcare worker avoid pulling forcefully on a patient's affected extremity?
What is to prevent pain or injury
Temperature of bath water
What is 105'F?
Use this type of razor if a patient is on an anticoagulant
What is an electric razor
If a patient has dysphagia, you may be required to give this type of liquid
What is thickened?
When helping a patient with an ADL, healthcare workers should encourage the patient to do as much as possible independently. This promotes this quality.
What is independence?
When undressing a patient, what side do you remove the clothing first?
What is the unaffected or strong side
If a bath thermometer is not available, you can use this to test the temperature
What is the elbow?
Do not use your ? when massaging scalp for bed shampoo
What are your fingernails?
A patient may experience this, if the formula is given cold through a feeding tube
What is cramping?
A patient becomes embarrassed while receiving assistance with bathing. Name two ways the healthcare worker can maintain the patient's dignity.
Assistants should allow and encourage patients to do what?
What is do as much as they can on their own/have some independence
Name three supplies that might be needed when assisting a patient with a bath.
If the patients hair is tangled, you should proceed.....
What is comb one section at a time and work from the ends up to the scalp
If the formula is given warm, it is at risk of forming
What are microbes?