Immobility/Effects
Risk factors that affect mobility
What is health status, developmental stage (children, older adults), environment, attitudes and beliefs, lifestyle?
Stairs, handrails, floor mats, orientation to unit
What are measures to prevent falls by older adults?
A person's age and degree of neuromuscular development.
What are developmental considerations?
N &V, diarrhea, superinfection, organ toxicity, allergy, hypersensitivity
What are general side effects/ adverse reactions of antibiotics?
To improve patient safety
What is the purpose of the National Patient Safety Goals?
Increased workload, orthostatic, hypotension, venous thrombosis
What are cardiac effects of immobility?
A physical restraint is a human, mechanical, or physical device used with or without the clients permission to restrict his or her freedom to movement.
What is the definition of restraints?
Illness or trauma involving one or more body systems
What is poor physical health?
Tetracycline
What anti-biotic medication causes photosensitivity and nephrotoxicity?
Identify patients correctly. Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely.
List three National Patient Safety Goals.
Decrease in muscle mass, tone, and strength, decrease in joint mobility, bone demineralization occurs as early as 2-3 days after onset of immobility
What are musculoskeletal effects of immbolity?
A lack of standards and structures. Uncertainty about who is responsible for the patients care. Differences in communication styles
List barriers to communication among clinicians
A person's condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well being.
What is mental health?
Ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity. Require hearing testing frequently.
What are the side effects of aminoglycosides ?
Patients name and date of birth
What are two patient identifiers?
Decrease in ventilator effort, pooling of secretions, altered gas exhange
What are respiratory effects of immobility?
Impaired mobility or sensory. Communication impairment, lack of safety awareness
What are four individual risk factors?
Occupation, leisure activity, culture, hobbies
What is lifestyle?
Cross-sensitivity/allergy to Penicillin
What are cephalosporins?
Use alarms safely, prevent mistakes in surgery, identify patient safety risk
List three additional National Patient Safety Goals.
Predisposes for UTI, formation of kidney stones, and retention
What are urinary effects of immobility?
Yes. SBAR can be also known as handoff communication
Can SBAR be applied to verbal and written communication?
Weather, lack of time, insufficient funds for gym membership, lack of equipment, air pollution, unsafe neighborhoods.
What are external factors affecting activity?
This medication, commonly used to treat urinary tract infections, requires monitoring of renal function and can have adverse effects of the kidneys (nephrotoxicity)
What are sulfonamides?
How do hospital facilities become JCAHO certified?