Hygiene
The proper technique for perineal care for females.
What is clean front to back?
This position is used for enema administration.
What is Sims left lateral?
This technique is used when securing a restraint.
What is a quick release slip knot?
Passive and active _______ are used to keep joints flexible and contractures from forming.
What is range of motion?
Frequent urination during the night, disrupts sleep and the sleep cycle, often leading to excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue.
What is nocturia?
When bathing or giving a bed bath, it is usually done in a head to toe fashion from....
What is "clean to dirty?"
This position increases comfort, improves ventilation, and increases the patient’s opportunity to socialize or relax. It is also the preferred positin for placement of NG tube.
What is Fowler's position? or Semi-Fowler's?
This safety measure should always be taken before moving your patient (up in bed, from bed to chair etc).
What is make sure the wheels are locked?
The nurse finds decreased peristalsis on physical exam of a patient that has been on prolonged bedrest.
What is a complication of immobility?
This substance speeds the onset of sleep, reduces REM sleep and awakens the person during the night and causes difficulty returning to sleep.
What is alcohol?
This substance is often added to a patient’s bath water to reduce the risk for health care–associated infections (HAIs).
What is chlorohexidine?
This condition is caused from prolonged plantar flexion that causes damage to the peroneal nerve that can lead to permanent plantar flexion.
What is foot drop?
The most effective way to break the chain of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This condition causes an increased pulse rate, a decreased pulse pressure and a drop in blood pressure when changing positions.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
Nursing interventions that are appropriate to promote sleep for hospitalized patients.
What are:
plan to take VS before the patient goes to sleep, have the patient follow at home bedtime schedules, close the door to the patients’ room at bedtime.
The proper way to dress a patient with an injury to one extremity or an extremity that is immobilized.
What is always dress the affected side first?
Bed position where the whole bed “slanted” with the feet higher than the head, that promotes postural drainage.
What is Trendelenburg?
This can be prevented by assessing the weight of the patient you will lift and determining the assistance you will need
What is prevention of health care worker work-related musculoskeletal injuries?
Can have strong deconditioning effects on the human body, in particular on bones, muscles, and the cardiovascular system.
What is physical inactivity?
Neurohormone produced in the brain that helps control circadian rhythms and promote sleep.
What is melatonin?
Patients with this disease state often require nail care from a specialist to reduce the risk of tissue injury and infection. Defer care other than washing the feet in these cases until patient has been evaluated.
What is diabetes (or peripheral vascular disease)?
This technique is used for patients with spinal cord injuries or who are recovering from neck, back, or spinal surgery need to keep the spinal column in straight alignment to prevent further injury.
What is log roll?
Health care workers protect themselves from contact with infectious material, sharps injury, and/or exposure to communicable diseases by applying knowledge of the infectious process and using appropriate….
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
This condition is the 3rd leading vascular diagnosis after heart attack and stroke affecting between 300,000 and 600,000 Americans each year. It is particularly common in patients with reduced mobility.
What is VTE (venous thromboembolism)
How do we as nurses prevent VTE? early ambulation, administration of anticoagulants, applying intermittent SCDs or compression stockings, and applying foot pumps.
Examples of nursing diagnoses for patients with sleep problems.
What is:
• Adequate Sleep
• Fatigue
• Impaired Sleep
• Impaired Alertness
• Sleep Deprivation?