Body Mechanics and Patient Mobility
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| Orthopneic position | show 🗑
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| show | position in which PT lies on side with knee and thigh drawn upward toward chest. (left SIMS position preferred position for enema procedure and administration of rectal suppository)
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| show | a form of LBP that happens when standing up from sitting or lying down. Pt taking medications used to reduce HBP are at high risk for orthostatic hypotension. Decrease in systolic BP of 20mmHg or 10mmHg diastolic w/n 3mins from shifting positions.
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| show | Bring the PT close to you and lower the patient slowly to the floor, and call for assistance.
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| What is Plantar Flexion | show 🗑
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| show | Flexion (chin to chest); Extension (returning erect position); Hyperextension (bend head back as far as possible, not older adults); Lateral Flexion (Tilt head from side to side); Rotation (turn head as far as possible to right and left)
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| Define ROM and identify the 2 types of ROM exercises | show 🗑
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| show | the tightening of muscles, tendons, ligaments, or skin. It makes it hard of impossible to move nearby joints; contractures deformity of the hand
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| show | MECHANICAL LIFT WITH A SLING
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| The N helps ambulate an 84yr female patient who has peripheral vascular disease that caused a severe stasis ulcer. The pt becomes very weak, reports feeling faint, and begins to fall. What is the most appropriate action to prevent injury to the patient? | show 🗑
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| 56yr pt had an open cholecystectomy. N is going to assist the patient with dangling on the side of the bed before ambulation. After sitting the pt on the edge of the bed, which N'ing intervention should the N perform before proceeding with the ambulation? | show 🗑
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| The patient accidentally knocks the emesis basin to the floor. When picking up the emesis basin, which movement demonstrates proper body mechanics by the nurse? | show 🗑
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| show | EXERT LESS PHYSICAL EFFORT
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| show | ensuring the pt's PROPER BODY ALIGNMENT
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| show | DORSEL RECUMBENT
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| show | ORTHOPNEIC
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| show | “It is important to KEEP NECK AND SPINE IN STRAIGHT ALIGNMENT while we help you move onto your side.
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| The nurse and a UAP are to move a dependent patient from the supine to the lateral position. Which action should be performed first? | show 🗑
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| An older adult patient has been lying in the supine position for 3 hours and tells the nurse that she is too uncomfortable to move right now. What is the best response by the nurse? | show 🗑
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| show | Maintaining a WIDE BASE OF SUPPORT and BENDing AT THE KNEES
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| show | The nurse should CALL FOR ASSISITANCE; DO NOT ALLOW PT TO GET OUT OF BED
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| A patient has been immobilized for 5 days because of extensive abdominal surgery. When this patient is helped out of bed for the first time, which patient problem related to safety applies to this patient? | show 🗑
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| Which assistive device allows patients to pull with the upper extremities to raise their trunk off the bed, to assist in transfer from bed to wheelchair, and to perform upper arm exercises? | show 🗑
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| show | PRONE
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| What is a necessary safety precaution when helping a patient who has an unsteady gait to ambulate? | show 🗑
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| What is a major benefit of active ROM exercises? | show 🗑
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| The nurse is receiving a report on a patient. The nurse giving the report states that the patient has foot drop. The nurse receiving the report knows that which is the correct terminology for foot drop? | show 🗑
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| show | Maintain good body alignment
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