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What is a cane?
What is used to help a person with balance?
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What is hand hygeine?
Washing hands with either soap and water or hand sanitizer.
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What is alopecia
Hairloss
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What is as needed
prn
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What is oral cares, peri cares, partial bath, toileting, change clothes, am cares, comb hair, wash face
Sally needs to get out of bed for the morning what is the first 3 things that need done?
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What is 4?
How many feet does a quad cane have
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What is localized.
Redness, swelling, pain, heat, and drainage are signs and symptoms of what type of infection?
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What is ambulating
Walking
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What is four times a day
qid
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What is tell the nurse, get a w/c, use a gait belt, take him to breakfast
Joe is ready to go to breakfast but his leg hurts, what 3 things should you do?
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What is orthotic devices (AFO?
These help keep joints in correct position and improve funcion.
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What is systemic?
Fever, chills, headache, change in vitals, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, confusion are signs and symptoms of what type of infection?
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What is dysphagia
Difficulty swallowing
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What is noc
noc
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What is peri cares, remember to pull the foreskin back, clean the penis from tip to base then the scrotum before the anus, clean the thighs, change his brief/clothing. Report to nurse.
Fred soiled himself, his daughter tells you not to forget to clean his "extra skin". What 3 things should you do?
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What is when a resident cannot move on their own.
When are passive range of motion exercises done?
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What is communicable disease? influenza, measles
Transmitted by direct contact with infected person or secretions, or indirectly from objects they have touched.
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What is bradycardia
Slow heart rate
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What is history
hx
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What is ask Mable if she is ok, if you have a radio ask for assistance from another cna, get a nurse, put your head out the dining room and ask for help, take pedals off another w/c if they fit, take res out of dining room
Mable is short of breath and in the dining room with no foot pedals on her wheel chair, you are the only cna in the dining room and there are 2 other residents in there. What 3 things should you do?
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What is the weaker side.
The cna should assist the resident using an assistive device from this side.
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What is handwashing
The number one way to prevent infections
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What is pronation
Turning downward
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What is intake and output
I&O
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What is ask the family to step out while you provide care, oral cares, pericares, bed bath, partial bath, change linens, back rub, brief change, get nurse
Sherman is terminal and his family is at his bedside but it is time to turn hima nd provide care, what 3 things should you do?
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