Integumentary System
To keep skin healthy with wrinkle free bed sheets.
What is pressure injury prevention?
The term used to replace a missing body part.
What is a prosthesis?
Exercises that put each joint through its full arc of motion.
What is range of motion?
To unfasten the gown at the neck and the waist and roll the dirty side in while holding the gown away from the body.
What is the correct way to remove a gown?
The length of time the nursing assistant uses friction when washing hands.
What is 20 seconds?
One of the first signs that a pressure injury is forming.
What is discoloration of the skin?
The type of cane with four rubber tipped feet.
What is a quad cane?
To begin at the shoulders and work down the body.
What is range of motion exercises?
The act of widening your stance and bringing the resident's body to close as you lower them down.
What is the proper way to help a falling resident?
Precautions that are practiced on every single person in the nursing assistant's care.
What are standard precautions?
A way to reposition residents without causing shearing.
What are draw sheets?
The feeling that the amputated body part is still there.
What is phantom sensation?
A permanet painful shortening of a muscle or tendon.
What is a contracture?
Information collected using the senses.
What is objective information?
The nursing assistant performs this task before and after touching a resident.
What is handwashing?
The medical term used for skin that is blue or grey.
What is cyanotic?
A care team member that teaches a resident to use adaptive devices for eating or dressing.
What is an occupational therapist?
To help a resident restore or improve function after and illness or injury.
The amount of time the nursing assistant should wait to check a temperature when the resident has had something cold to drink.
What is 10-20 minutes?
The type of environment that microorganisms grow best.
What is in the dark?
A procedure performed on the skin that is not with the nursing assistant's scope of practice.
What is a sterile dressing change?
The last body part to have range of motion peformed on.
What are the toes?
When the nursing should stop range of motion exercises on a resident.
What is pain?
The type of equipment used for elimination when residents cannot lift their hips.
What is a fracture pan?
A particular implementation in which the nursing assistant should always wear gloves.
What is shaving?