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Personal care
Term | Definition |
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Benefits of daily personal care | *cleans the body *Promotes comfort *Enhances circulation *Improves self image *Elimnates body odors |
Factors that influence a PTA attitude toward personal care | Cultural/personal practices of pt. Image and status Physcial ability to preform hygiene (pt may have been sick for a long time) |
Early morning care | basic hygiene, hand washing/face washing. Offering bedpan ect Assisting with oral care. Usually done by night shift. |
AM care (after breakfast care) | *Bed pan urinal. *Assisting with bath, oral, hair,and nail care, and shave. *Straightening or replacing bed linens. *Changing gown or PJs *Offer back rub |
Afternoon care | *wash hands and face *Assist with oral care *Offer bedpan/urinal *Strighten bed linens |
He care | *changing solid linens. *Oral care. *Offer bed pan |
Nevus | (normal) *Mole, birthmark *Most often dark brown, maybe blue or black |
Cherry angiomas | (normal) *small slightly raised bright red dots. (Looks like little red moles) |
Seborrheic keratosis | (normal) *raised thicken areas that look great or stuck on. *Do not pick off |
Lentigines | (normal) Commonly known as age spots |
Skin tags | (normal) *Over growth of normal skin. Poloyp like |
Erythema | (abnormal) *Areas of increased redness,also increased warmth and pain *Infection of inflammation |
Contusion/ecchymosis | Brusing |
Pustule | *elevated cavity under the skin, containing pus. |
Edema | *swelling, abnormal fluid accumulation. *Putting ademea (+1-+4, how long it stays pitted) |
Petechiae | *tiny pin point hemmorages (bleeding). *Less then 2mm in size. * May indicate abnormal clotting abilite. |