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To avoid or prevent purposeful or accidental harm to client and/or to do what is required to provide medically necessary treatment that could not be provided any other way.
What are two reasons for restraining a patientt?
This age group is at risk for injury at home, at school, and while traveling to and from school.
Who are school aged children?
It is important to use one of these when assessing a patient's risk for falls.
What is a fall or risk assessment tool?
While teaching parents of school-aged children about safety, it is most important to teach them to make sure this fits properly.
What is a bicycle helmet?
PASS is a fire safety acronym that stands for this.
It is referring to this fire safety equipment specifically.
What is pull, aim, squeeze and sweep?
What is a fire extinguisher?
When dealing with a confused patient who is repeatedly trying to pull out his Foley catheter, what should the nurse do first: a. Gather restraints b.Try alternatives to restraints c.Assess the patient d.Call the physician
What is assess the patient?
This age group is at risk for occupational injuries and motor vehicle crashes as reaction times begin to decrease and visual acuity begins to decline.
Who are Middle-aged adults?
It is important to make sure that you educate your patients about the risk for falls when taking these.
What are medications that can cause drowsiness?
Proper storage, preparation and refrigeration of food is a good way to prevent this.
What is food poisoning?
The nurse is preparing a patient for surgery. The nurse explains that this is the reason for writing in indelible ink on the surgical site, the word "correct".
What is to distinguish the correct surgical site.
The possibility of impaired circulation, aspiration, incontinence, suffocation, pressure ulcers.
What are potential restraint hazards?
These patients are at risk for injury that is directly related to the physiological changes of the aging process.
Who are the older patients?
Poor vision, cognitive dysfunction, impaired gait/mobility, orthostatic hypotension, urinary frequency, history of falls.
What are risk factors for a fall?
While teaching a patient about fire safety, and how to use one of these, you educate the patient about the acronym "PASS" which means, pull, aim, squeeze, and sweep.
What is a fire extinguisher?
"RACE" is a fire safety acronym that stands for this.
What is rescue, alarm, confine and extinguish?
A bed alarm is an example of this.
What is an alternative to restraints?
The leading causes of death in this age group are suicide and homicide.
Who are adolescents?
These provide excellent prevention against falls on stairs, and in showers and tubs.
What are safety bars or handrails?
Help parents reduce the risk of this by teaching them to keep all medications, cleaning fluids, and batteries out of reach from children.
What is accidental poisoning?
These safety measures include rescue equipment at bedside such as oxygen, oral airway and suction equipment.
What are seizure precautions?
Padding bony prominences, tie to non-movable bed frame, assess skin, provide ROM and position changes, elimination needs, nutrition and hydration every 2 hours.
What are guidelines for restraint application?
This age group is at risk for injury due to their growing ability to explore and oral activity.
Who are infants and toddlers?
Familiarizing patient with environment, call light in reach, keep areas uncluttered, keep belongings in easy reach, keep hospital bed in lowest position with brakes locked.
What are sample universal fall precautions?
To reduce the risk for falling in the home of elderly patients, teach them to make sure that they have this so they can see where they are stepping.
What is adequate lighting?
Safety cautious nurses know that preforming this can reduce or prevent the transmission of disease from person to person.
What is proper hand hygiene?