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It is the staff member that does swallow studies and teaches safe swallowing guidelines.
Who is the Speech Therapist?
It is the staff member responsible for ensuring no further decline in patient functionality once physical/occupational therapy has signed off.
Who is the restorative aide?
This staff member from the therapy department helps patients by promoting their abilities in order to fulfill their daily routines and roles.
Who is the Occupational Therapist?
This equipment is used to clean a cancer patient's mouth.
What is a toothette ?
It is how many total bones in the human skeletal system.
What's 206 Bones?
It is a term used to refer to the loss or impairment of the ability to chew or to swallow.
What is Dysphagia?
It's what should be placed in a hand when it is contracted.
What is a palm protector?
This includes eating, bed mobility, transferring and toileting. Daily documentation by CNAs every shift is to be done on the topic of ADL's to monitor care levels and patient progression to wellness.
What are activities of daily living (ADL's)?
This equipment is placed into an artery and threaded up to the heart. Because of it, you can't take blood pressure in that arm.
What is a PICC Line?
It is the clinical term for a sore or lesion found in the stomach lining caused by excessive acid secretion/stress.
What is a gastric ulceration?
It is the term used for when food has entered the airway.
What is Aspiration?
It's the specific type of pillow used for hip replacement patients post-operatively.
What is an abduction pillow?
An Occupational Therapist's job is to assist residents in their passive range of motion (PROM) exercises to bring the patient up to their new baseline. True or false?
What is false? Physical exercise training is a Physical Therapists' task. Occupational Therapist help retrain on activities of daily living (ADLs).
It is the medical term for an artificial limb.
What is a prosthetic?
It is the medical term used to describe a drawn up/contracted muscle from probable disuse.
What is Muscle Atrophy?
It is the specific position to be used when feeding a patient.
What is the High Fowlers Position?
What is the term used to describe walkers, wheelchairs, padded spoons, sippy cups, prosthetics, etc...
What is adaptive equipment?
It is a type of communication tool used interdepartmentally when a patient's abilities are declining.
What is a Referral Form for The Therapy Department?
It is the official name of the scale used to weigh an ambulatory client.
What is a Physician's Beam Scale?
It is the CNA's 3 main functions when caring for a patient undergoing radiation treatments.
What is providing excellent skin care, encouraging fluid intake when appropriate and reporting all abnormalities?
Name the different consistencies of liquids that may assigned to patients by a Speech Therapist.
What are thin liquids, nectar thick liquids and honey thick, pudding thick liquids?
It is term used for the position when you bend your foot up towards your knees.
What is dorsiflexion?
It is the term used to describe the palm upwards position.
What is Supination?
This is how a blood pressure cuff is actually termed and is spelled.
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It is a term used to define fragile areas of the body that must be protected from skin breakdown.
What are bony prominences?