Infection Prevention
Describe standard precautions.
What is washing your hands and wearing protective gloves?
What should you, as a provider, ensure that every patient has regarding their positioning during an exam?
What is privacy and comfort?
What are the four methods of examination?
What is inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation?
If you have a visually impaired patient, what should you do upon entering/leaving the room?
What is identify yourself?
List the most accurate type of temperature monitoring, from most accurate to least.
What is rectal, oral, ear, axillary, forehead?
How long do you scrub your hands when washing your hands with soap and water?
What is 20 seconds?
What position is described when a patient is in a prone position?
What is the patient laying on their stomach?
Explain inspection.
What is the process of observation?
Explain a pivot transfer.
What is when you stand in front of the patient, take the patient’s knees between your own knees, grasp the patient around the back and under the arms, raise the patient to a vertical position, and then pivot from wheelchair to the table?
What do you use a monofilament for?
What is testing for loss of protective sensation on the plantar surface of the food? If lost, patient has increased risk of injury.
What is the minimum percentage of alcohol a hand sanitizer should contain?
What is 60% alcohol?
What are gynecologic exams?
Why do we need to be able to perform percussion on a patient?
What is diagnosis without imaging? Remember, percussion tone over air is loud, over fluid less loud, and over solid areas soft.
You have a patient that speaks a different language. They want to use a family member as their interpreter. How will you communicate with them?
What is an interpreter (live or virtual)?
Is the Suellen chart, Sloan letter chart or Rosenbaum/Jaeger chart used to assess near vision?
What is the Rosenbaum or Jaeger chart?
List 4 known scenarios when you should wash your hands.
What is before/after patient care, before/after touching infectious material, before/after PPE use, after using the restroom/eating, after coughing/sneezing, after touching surfaces/objects in patient environments/rooms.
You are preparing to examine the abdomen of a patient, what position do you have the patient in?
What is Supine?
List one way to help prevent distraction while auscultating.
What is closing your eyes, ensuring privacy, reducing room noise?
What is pulling down your mask, speaking slowly, provide written materials, white board/paper and pen?
Explain some reasons of why a pulse oximeter could provide a false reading.
What are cold fingers, thick finger nails/fake nails, poor perfusion, dark pigmentation, poor technology connection, CO2 poisoning.
What distance is "safe" to refrain from someone that is ill?
What is 6 feet?
What scenario would you expect to see a patient in a Trendelenburg position?
What is shock or special medical procedure, such as central line?
Auscultation should be carried out last, except when examining the ________.
What is the abdomen?
Explain autonomic dysreflexia.
What dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system, a potentially life-threatening disorder that can cause death due to pooling of blood in the abdomen and lower extremities causing lowering of the patients blood pressure?
Explain the difference between the diaphragm and bell of a stethoscope.
What is:
Diaphragm, used to listen for high-frequency sounds. Typically from the heart, lungs and abdomen.
Bell, used to listen for low-frequency sounds.
Typically heart murmurs, bruits and some bowel sounds.