HYGIENE
This is the proper technique for perineal care for females.
What is clean front to back?
This position is used for enema administration.
What is Sims left lateral position?
This technique is used when securing a restraint.
What is a quick release slip knot?
These techniques are used to keep joints flexible and prevent contractures from forming.
What are active and passive range of motion?
This condition results in frequent urination during the night which leads to disruptions in sleep and the sleep cycle, often leading to excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue.
What is nocturia?
When bathing or giving a bed bath, it is usually done in a head-to-toe fashion from….
What is “clean to dirty?”
This position increases comfort, improves ventilation, and increases the patient’s opportunity to socialize or relax. It is also the preferred position for placement of NG tube.
What is Fowler’s position? Or Semi-Fowler’s?
This safety measure should always be taken before moving your patient (up in bed, from bed to chair etc).
What is make sure the wheels are locked?
This complication of immobility affects the GI tract and can lead to bowel obstruction.
What is decreased peristalsis?
This substance speeds the onset of sleep, reduces REM sleep and awakens the person during the night and causes difficulty returning to sleep.
What is alcohol?
These kinds of bath wipes are used for pre-surgical patients and patients with central lines. They contain a special substance to reduce the risk of health care-associated infections (HAIs).
What is Chlorohexidine? or Chlorohexidine wipes?
This condition is caused from prolonged plantar flexion that causes damage to the peroneal nerve that can lead to permanent plantar flexion.
What is foot drop?
This is the most effective way to break the chain of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This condition causes an increased pulse rate, a decreased pulse pressure and a drop in blood pressure when changing positions.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This neurohormone is produced in the brain and helps control circadian rhythms and promote sleep.
What is melatonin?
The proper way to dress a patient with an injury to one extremity or an extremity that is immobilized.
What is always dress the affected side first?
This bed position is where the whole bed “slanted” with the feet higher than the head, that promotes postural drainage.
What is Trendelenburg?
This technique is used for patients with spinal cord injuries or who are recovering from neck, back, or spinal surgery need to keep the spinal column in straight alignment to prevent further injury.
What is log roll?
This condition can have strong deconditioning effects on the human body, in particular on bones, muscles and the cardiovascular system.
List 3 nursing interventions that are appropriate to promote sleep for hospitalized patients.
What are: plan to take VS before the patient goes to sleep, have the patient follow at home bedtime schedules, close the door to the patients’ room at bedtime, turn off the TV and lights.
Patients with this disease state often require nail care from a specialist to reduce the risk of tissue injury and infection. Defer care other than washing the feet in these cases until patient has been evaluated.
What is diabetes or (peripheral vascular disease)?
This body position in which the person lies flat with the chest down and the back up.
What is prone?
These items are used by health care workers to protect themselves from contact with infectious material, sharps injury, and/or exposure to communicable diseases.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
This condition is the 3rd leading vascular diagnosis after heart attack and stroke affecting between 300,000 and 600,000 Americans each year. It is particularly common in patients with reduced mobility.
What is VTE (venous thromboembolism)?
Give 1 example of a nursing problem (or diagnosis) for patients with sleep problems.
What is Impaired Sleep Pattern, Insomnia, Sleep Deprivation, or Disturbed Sleep Pattern?