ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Towel, gloves, razor and shaving cream.
What equipment is necessary whan caring for a client's beard?
This is what you should do when your client begins to choke, cannot speak, and turns blue.
What is/are the Heimlich Maneuver or Abdominal Thrusts?
The patient at risk for pressure ulcers should be turned every _________
What is 2 hours?
Your patient tells you they want to harm themselves. you should:
What is tell the Nurse?
Before entering a client's room, the NA should do this first.
What is knock on the door?
The first area of a client's body that the NA should wash when providing a bed bath.
What is the face?
When getting ready to make a bed, the NA should place the clean linens on this clean surface.
What is a chair or table beside the bed?
Your patient has hearing aides and wants to take them out for bed time. The appropriate place to put them in is:
What is a labeled container on the bedside table?
It is your male patient's cultural preference to only have a man bathe him. there are no males available on your shift. You should:
Coordinate having your patient bathed by male staff on another shift.
Check here to find out what type of diet the client is receiving.
What is the care plan?
Offering fluids frequently while the client is awake prevents ________.
What is dehydration?
How should soiled linen be carried?
What is away from the body?
Your patient ambulates best with a walker, but has to go to the bathroom immediately and the walker is behind a large recliner against the wall. You should:
What is get the walker to ambulate the patient safely?
Your patient has died and the family wishes to kneel on the floor to pray, asking for all chairs to be removed from the room. You should:
What is remove all chairs?
While in the employee break room, you overhear a group of NAs discussing the behavior of a certain client. Your best response to this would be _________.
What is suggesting that this is not the place to discuss the client?
You just finished changing a client and he/she tells you they are incontinent again. You should:
What is change them again?
The arm you should remove from the patient's gown first when they have a weak right arm:
What is the left arm?
Your patient has a weak left side. The best side to get them out of bed would be:
What is the right side?
A client requests that the NA call the client's spiritual advisor. The NA should ___________.
What is inform the nurse of the client's request?
The abbreviation ADL means _________.
What are Activities of Daily Living?
Your patient prefers you do all of their hygiene and grooming for them, although they are capable of doing it themselves. Your best response would be:
What is encourage independence?
These are 3 common ending steps when finishing a skill.
What are (1) signaling device within reach, (2) bed in low/locked position and (3) washes hands?
Give 3 examples of devices that can be used by a stroke survivor to help them to be more independent:
What is/are (1) Cane/Walker, (2) Safety/Grab Bars, (3) Utensils with assistive handles, (4) Grabbers/Reachers, (5) Sock assist, (6) Button hook, (7) Bedside Commode and (8) Shower Chair?
Your client is confused and begins to cry and scream out for his/her parents. Name 3 techniques to use to respond to your patient therapeutically
What is/are (1) active listening, (2) speaking in a calm voice, (3) monitoring body language, (4) empathy, (5) using simple words and short sentences, (6) redirecting or guiding the conversation to something the client enjoys, (7) reducing noise and distractions and (8) playing soft music.
The rehabilitation team member who assists the client with the performance of ADLs is the ____________.
Who is the Occupational Therapist?