Sterile Dressing
Type of gloves required; special application
Sterile
Position for a female client
Dorsal Recumbent
Type of technique used with this procedure
clean/non-sterile
location of PEG tube
Stomach
Type of technique required for suctioning
Sterile
Proper way to clean incision
Top to bottom/clean to dirty
Measurement for a catheter
French
Requires a drop of gastric fluid to test placement
pH strip
After feeding, client needs to sit up for this time
30 minutes
Suction machine should be less than
150mm Hg/Mercury
removes old dressing this way
so patient can't see/away from pt
Temporary catheter
Straight catheter
When reading pH strip, this is the required value
Acidic <6.0 (1.0-2.5)
Holding feeding higher makes it go
faster
Placed on client's finger
pulse ox
when to apply hand sanitizer
entering room, before & after gloving, at the end
How to clean a male before catheterization
Bulls-eye fashion
Irrigation fluid is not going in; have the client
Turn on the left side
Flushing the tube with
water or sterile water or NS
Applied when pulling catheter out
Suction
Last activity after any procedure (not hand sanitizer)
documentation
Device used to hold catheter to the leg
Stat-lock
After flushing with air and right before removing the tube, the client needs to
Hold their breath
Checked to see if client is tolerating tube feeding
Gastric Residual
15 seconds