Question | Answer |
Bed Cradle | frame used to prevent the bed clothes from touching all or part of the client's body. Used with clients who have fractures; extensive burns and or open painful wounds. |
Closed Bed | Closed Bed is a bed made up ready for a new admin client. Covers pulled up to the head of the bed over the bottom covers. A pillow placed on top of the linens. |
Open Bed | A bed in which a client is already assigned |
Egg Crate Mattress | foam rubber mattress with a surface shaped like an egg carton, used to provide comfort |
Floatation Mattress | contains a special gel type material which supports the body or body part in such a way as to avoid creating pressure points. |
Foot Drop | abnormal flexion or a deformity |
Mitered corners | folding the sheet in such a way that after it's tucked under the mattress it makes a "mitered" corner with the sheet |
Occupied Bed | Occupied by a client |
Post operative bed | bed made with a draw sheet under the hips disposable pads under the draw sheet, 2nd draw sheet under client's head. For client returning from surgery. |
Traction | series of ropes and pulleys and weights serves to keep a body part in proper alinement |
Trapeze | Horizonal bar hanging on chains attached to a large overhead frame attached to the bed. Used by client to pull up, to reposition, exercise to strengthen upper body. |
Unoccupied bed | Bed that is empty at the time it is made and it is the easiest bed to make. |
Dental Caries | tooth decay, causing other oral problems such as bad breath (halitosis) |
Friable | Fragile skin usually in the elderly client |
nits | lice eggs attached to hair folicles |
pediculosis | lice infestation |
perineal care | genital hygiene, bathing |
pyorrhea | copius discharge of puss |
Smegma | sebaceous glad secretions |
sordes | foul dark spots that form around the teeth and lips in a low grade fever. |
Backrub Techniques There are SIX (SKT...FBV)
Stroking (effleurage) E flu rage | long smooth strokes with palms of hands. In direction of venous circulation. Up the middle of the back then out to the shoulders then down the sides. |
Kneading (Petrissage or foulage) because kneading muscles is sometimes painful... pt may be petrified and foul mouthed | Pressing on muscle groups. Picking them up and squeezing them. |
Tapping (tapotement) | tapping with edge of the hand |
Friction | Rubbing around body's bony prominences. End of spine and shoulder blades |
Brushing (frolement) -"Back and fro" | brushing lightly with fingertips |
Vibration | cupped palms rhythmically moving the skin, cause to shake and quiver |
Hirsutism | Excessive facial hair on women |
Seborrheic dermatitis | Dandruff |