Body Mechanics Flashcards
What is body mechanics?
Correct alignment balance is very important
Regulation movement
You have a long soft short, flat an irregular bones.
Nervous system innervates? “Regulation of movement “
International and spontaneous muscles
Skeletal muscle = posture/movement /more international
Smooth muscle = digestive tract/ bladder/blood vessels/not attached to a muscle. This is most likely spontaneous.
Cardiac muscle = contract, spontaneously
Range of motion joints?
Flexion = raising your arm up
Extension = extending your arm
Hypertension = put in your arm as straight as possible passed 180°
Other ranges of motion?
Abduction = keeps legs apart
Adduction = add legs together legs are touching
Rotation = turn your head
Circumduction = making circle shape of joint
Who is more injured hospital workers or nursing facilities?
Nursing home bc they have less help and less equipment.
Work related muscular skeletal disorders?
Leading and most costly, occupational health problems, cumulative effect, soft tissue damage. Examples are muscles, tendons, ligaments joints, blood vessels, nerves, and spinal disc.
Prevention of injury?
ANA position statement, occupational safety, and health administration, safe, handling patient programs.
training nurses to use proper mechanics alone avoid injuries, true or false?
Pause
While lifting devices minimizing, the risk, the risk of MSD’s cannot be eliminated all together?
True that is a fact
Studies have shown the patient’s feel more comfortable insecure when a machine transfer device is used true or false?
True that is a fact
It can actually take much longer to round up a team of colleagues to manually lift a patient then to find and use lifting equipment, true or false?
True manual lifting machine will be much quicker
What are injury risk factors?
Task patients and nurses, we can able to help with transfer, vision, or hearing loss, overweight, poor communication, I Unpredictable, uncooperative, experiencing pain.
Foundation of body, mechanics?
Strongest shape in nature is what a triangle.
You are going to face the direction of movement body alignment center the gravity, balance in base you off of your support
**REMINDER
Keep your center of gravity over a wide base of support
Activity orders, and weight bearing orders
Times one assist to the bathroom dangle their feet up in the chair with the cyst. TTWB touch, weight-bearing WBAT weight-bearing the tolerated, etc.
Fall bundles?
Standard = call light within reach cluster free belongings within reach bed locked nonskid socks on
Moderate = fall management, yellow socks, yellow gown
High = door opened, bed alarm chair alarm
**Do not leave patients unattended and shower and do not utilize shower shoes. Use gait belt for ambulation and assistive devices as appropriate.
What are bad positions?
HOB 90° you are sitting up like if you were in a chair
HOB 40° you are leaned back like if you’re in a recliner
HOB of 30° you are almost laying down
Positions in bed?
Trendelenburg = entire bed, titled with head of the bed down
Reverse Trendelenburg = entire bed, tilted with foot of the bed down
Flat = entire bed horizontal
Moving patient considerations?
How capable of your patient, our assistive devices needed, explain transfer process, does equipment function properly, bed is in locked position
