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Care plans & care team Flashcards

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what is rehabilitation?

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the process of restoring a person to the highest level of functioning through the use of therapy and excersise. It begins at the time of injury.

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what is health promotion

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A strategy for improving the populations health by providing the information and tools so they can make informed decisions.

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Rehab may involve measures that promote?

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  • Self care
  • Communication
  • Mobility
  • Elimination
  • Positioning
  • Prevention of decline
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Goals for rehab:

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1) restore function to former level
2) Improve functional ability
3) Learn new skills
4) Prevent further disability

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how many dimensions of health does rehab treat?

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Rehab treats all dimensions of health.

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what are the different dimensions of rehab ?

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  • Physical
  • Emotional
    -Intellectual
    & Spiritual
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Give an example of Physical rehab?

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ADL’s, ROM, Relearn self care

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Give an example of emotional health rehab?

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  • Provide concealing + assistance for re-entering the comunity.
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Give an example of intellectual health

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  • Thinking, speech, memory & measures to improve cognitive functioning
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Give an example of spiritual health?

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  • concealing from spiritual advisors.
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What kinds of specific equipment do they use?

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  • Prostheses

- Orthoses

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What is Prostheses?

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  • An artificial replacement for missing body parts, These replacements are powered by the ct’s muscles in the stump.
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what is Orthoses?

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  • An appliance/apparatus used to support align, prevent or correct deformities it can be a brace or a splint.
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What can you do or give people to support them in rehab?

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  • Privacy
  • Encouragment
  • Focus on the positive
  • Reassurance
  • Emotional support
  • Active Listener
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what is restrictive care?

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It’s care that helps a person regain health, strength and indapendence.

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What is prevention?

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Care of support which attempts to prevent (stop) deterioration and excess disability.

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what is learning?

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A change in behaviour which results from the acquisition of new knowledge or skill

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what is motavation?

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desiring something and putting the energy towards it

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what is a developmental task

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a skill or learning process that is expected to occur at a particular age.

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what is a care plan?

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It’s a form of contract b/w the ct + the health care team. A care plan provides consistency + continuity of care.

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Who is involved in making the care plan?

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The health care team

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What is in the care plan?

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Dx, Personal care, tx, vs, mobility, allergies, home making needs, safety precautions, age, DOB, BM#, Code status

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Who makes the medical dx?

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The doctor. example of a medical dx: Cancer.

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Who makes the nursing dx?

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Nurses, and it treats the symptoms.

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What contributions does a PSW make to the care plan?

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  • Discuss + report changes in the ct.
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Is a care plan specific to each ct?

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Yes.

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What is a care confrence?

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It identifies needs and preferences, deals with ct issues, establish goals and provides consistency of care .

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Who is involved in the care plan?

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  • Physician
  • Ct
  • Family of ct
  • Nurse
  • PSW
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what is the physician’s role in the care confrence?

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Discuss medication and tx plans.

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what is the ct’s role in the care confrence ?

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Raise problems and concerns

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What is the familys role?

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assist with problem solving

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what is the nurses role?

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medication, organize plan of care, raise issues, and problems.

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What is YOUR role as a PSW?

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Relay problems, observations contribute suggestions and help problem solve.

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What are vital signs?

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they are measures to assess basic body functions

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name some vs’s

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  • Blood Pressure
  • Temperature
  • Respiratory rate
  • Pulse
  • O2 saturation
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why are vs taken?

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They are taken to detect changes in normal body functions they vary by age.

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What do you need when documenting vs ?

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  • Date + Time

- Mesurnent/Numbers

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When should you weigh your ct? & What should you remember to do?

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  • Before ac(breakfast)
  • Same time each day
  • Use same scale
  • Ensure scale is balanced
  • Weigh ct in same amount of clothing
  • Have pt empty bladder before weighing
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How do you convert Kg’s to lbs?

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Multiply by 2.2

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How do you convert lbs to Kg’s?

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divide by 2.2

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how should you measure height and what should you remember and do when measuring height? (when they can stand themselves)

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  • Recorded in inches or centimetres depending on facility.

- Ask pt to stand straight then lower bar so it lightly touches their head.

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How do you measure height in bed?

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  • Obtain approx ht in bed
  • Have pt stretch out as much as possible when measuring in bed.
  • place a mark on heel + top of head measure b/w the two
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What is body temprature?

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Body temperature is the amount of heat in the body, If your body contracts an illness your temperature should go up. Body temp. should be measured in celsius.

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How do you convert F-C

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subtract 32 and divide by 1.8

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how do you convert C-F

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multiply by 1.8 and add 32

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when does heat loss occure?

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  • Conduction
  • Convection
  • Radiation
  • Evaporation
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what is conduction?

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direct physical contact with an object

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what is convection?

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when body heat warms surrounding air.

48
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What is radiation?

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body heat warms surrounding object without physical contact

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what is evaporation?

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perspiration changing a liquid to a vapour.

50
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what are 4 places you can take a temprature?

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  • Rectom (not in PSW scope)
  • Oral (mouth)
  • Axilla(armpit)
  • Tympanic (ear)
51
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Things that can give a false reading when taking somebody’s temp.

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  • Eating or drinking
  • Chewing gum
  • Smoking
  • Brushing teeth
52
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What is a pulse?

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its created as blood is pushed through the arteries.

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What finger should you not use to check your pulse and why?

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You should not use your thumb because your thumb has its own pulse.

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What is normal pulse?

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Between 60 and 90 bpm

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What are some places you can find your pulse?

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  • Temporal
  • Carotid (neck)
  • Apical (chest)
  • Brachial (crease of elbow)
  • Radial (wrist)
  • Femoral (groin)
  • Popletil (back of knee)
  • Dorsils (top of foot)
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what are resperations?

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they are the in and out breathing, normal is between 12 and 20 per minute

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what are some things that can affect your pulse?

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Stress, Pain, Hydration + Position + Excersise

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what is blood pressure?

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is measures how much pressure is in the arteries.

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what is systolic?

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the higher # measures the pressure when the heart contracts

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what is diastolic

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its the lower number measure the resting rate of the heart when its refilling b/w beats 110 over 60 or 130 over 80

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What is an MDS

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Minimum data set

62
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how many sections does a MDS have?

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20

63
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What is baithing?

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how a resident takes a sponge bath, full body bath or shower. It also includes how the resident transfers in and out of the tub. It doesn’t include washing of back or hair.

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what is included in ADL Preformance?

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0- Independent
1- Supervised
2- Limited assistance 
3- Extensive assistance  
4- Total assistance 
8- Activity did not occure.
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What is Bed Mobility?

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this is how the resident movies to and from a lying position.
-Includes lifting feet in to bed
- Turns from side to side
and positions body in bed.

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what is the definition of transfer ?

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How the resident moves to and from bed, chair, wheelchair to and from a standing position.

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Dressing ?

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how the resident puts on fastens and takes off clothes. Includes street clothes, pyjamas, TED stockings and protheses.

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