Mobility
This is done by the HHA on the client extremities to help prevent contractures.
What is passive range of motion.
The most important thing you can do to help prevent the spread of infection
What is hand hygiene?
Before transfering a client to a wheelchair one of the most important things the HHA should do is
What is lock the wheelchair.
What should be included in a diabetic diet?
When making an occupied bed you will need to do this.
When dressing a client with a weak side you should always dress this side first.
What is the weak side.
How a female client should be cleaned after toileting.
What is from front to back?
Feeding a small amount slowly, making sure food is not too hot or cold, putting your client in the right position.
What should you do when feeding a dependant client?
HIPPA
What is the law that protects clients private health information?
Mixing bleach and amonia.
What is something you should never do?
Cane, walker, wheelchair
What are assistive devices?
20 seconds
Any change in client condition.
What should you report to the office?
Breaking task in to simple steps
What should the HHA should do for a confused client who is having trouble remember how to performing a task?
What is after each use?
When ambulating a client with right side weakness the HHA should be
What is on the weak side.
This should be done before and after care, before preparing food and after using the bathroom.
What is hand hygienge
This should never be done around oxygen.
What is smoking or open flames?
Clipping toenails, crushing medication, doing things not on the care plan.
What are things the HHA can not do?
Always use an approved disenfectant, wear gloves and never pick up broken glass.
Widen your stance and gentlly lower your client to the floor.
What should the HHA should do if your client starts to fall while you are ambulating them?
Standard precautions
What is the level of precautions used for all clients?
The most important reason we reposition clients who are bedbound or send a lot of time sitting.
What is to prevent skin breakdown?
Try to find out why the client does not want to take the medication and report to the supervisor
What is, what the HHA should do if the client refuses to take their medication?
The order we always clean.
What is from cleanest to dirtiest?