Positions
This position is where a person lies on their side, either left or right.
What is lateral position?
If you are asked to get vital signs BID, you know that you will be doing this how often?
What is twice a day?
This term means that you are moving a body part away from the midline of the body.
If your resident has a heart rate of 48, what would you call that?
What is bradycardia? (Heart rate less than 60.)
Is this subjective information or objective information? The resident states they are feeling nauseous.
What is subjective?
This position is where a person lies on their back with their face and torso facing up.
What is supine?
The resident is suffering from dyspnea, your nurse asks you to raise the HOB, you know that this means to
What is raise the head of bed?
This motion is when you are bending a body part.
What is flexion?
Your resident has a blood pressure of 168/102, we know that this is considered to be
What is hypertension?
(Anything 140/90 and above is considered to be hypertensive)
Vital signs and skin appearance care considered to be what type of information?
What is objective?
This position has the patient on their back with the head of the bed raised to 60–90 degrees.
What is high Fowler's?
Your resident is NPO, this means that
This motion is moving a body part toward the midline of the body.
What is adduction?
Your resident says that she feels like her heart is racing, you take her pulse and find it to be 126 beats per minute, you know that a heart rate this fast is called
What is tachycardia?
Body language such as facial expression or eye contact are examples of what type of communication?
What is nonverbal?
This position is where a person lies flat on their stomach with their face down.
What is prone position?
The nurse asks you to put 2L of O2 per N/C on your resident, you know that his means
What is two liters of oxygen from the nasal canula?
This motion is straightening the body part.
What is extension?
You are helping your resident get up, and upon standing he states that he feels dizzy and needs to sit down, you know that when a person changes positions and has those symptoms, they might have
What is orthostatic hypotension?
All behavior has meaning to the
What is the person performing the behavior?
What position do we put our residents in for feeding and why?
What is high Fowler's and to prevent choking and aspiration?
You are required to empty the urinary drainage bag QID. You know that this means?
What is four times a day?
This motion is a small hand movement consisting of the thumb touching the tips of the other fingers.
What is opposition?
What is the medical term for chest pain?
What is angina?
What is the term used to imply that the resident has the inability to speak or understand speech?
What is aphasia?