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A comprehensive overview of best practices and considerations for personal hygiene care of patients, covering topics such as bed making, oral care, bathing, and skin care. It addresses key nursing actions and rationales to reduce the risk of infection, maintain patient comfort, and promote overall well-being. A range of scenarios, including caring for npo patients, unconscious patients, and those requiring frequent linen changes due to excessive diaphoresis. By studying this document, healthcare professionals can enhance their knowledge and skills in delivering high-quality personal hygiene care to patients, ultimately contributing to improved patient outcomes.
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A nurse observes and assistive personnel (AP) make a patients bed. Which of the following actions is appropriate for this task?
-The AP reuses the patients blanket and spread
-The AP makes a miltered corner with the blanket and spread
-The AP wears sterile gloves while making the bed
An nurse is caring for a patient who is NPO and is refusing oral care. Which of the following is the appropriate response by the nurse?
-Oral care is still important even though you are not eating
-I'll give you a sip of water that you can swish around in your mouth and spit right back out
-We will wait until your family gets here to help
even though you are not eating
A nurse is assisting a patient with personal hygiene care. Which of the following actions by the nurse will reduce the risk of infection?
-Washing the eyes from the outer canthus to inner canthus
-Cleaning the least soiled areas prior to cleaning the most soiled
-Massaging reddened areas of the skin
-Washing the patient shoulders down to the fingertips with smooth short strokes ✔✔Cleaning
from the least soiled areas prior to cleaning the most soiled
While performing a complete bed bath for a patient, the nurse should... ✔✔Raise the room
temperature
A nurse is preparing to assist a patient with a tub bath. Identify the sequence of steps the nurse should take. ✔✔-Gather all necessary supplies
-Place rubber mat on floor
-Assist patient into the bathroom
-Give safety instructions
-Inform patient that they are to not stay in the tub longer than 20 minutes
A nurse is caring for an unconscious patient. Which of the following statements but the nurse indicates a good understanding of providing good oral hygiene for the patient?
-I'll swab the patients mouth with lemon-glycerin swabs
-Inform the patient when morning hygiene care is provided in the hospital
-Ask the patient in what order she typically performs her morning routine ✔✔Ask the patient in
what order she typically performs her morning routine