CLO3 Flashcards
If you were a hospice nurse you treat for?
Maximum pain control administer meds every three hours around the clock as ordered
Why do we use alcohol-based wipes?
To help decrease microbial counts
 When caring with infectious patient?
Mask up when talking to the client
Elderly client safety concerns
Elderly accidental Falls
Dehiscence
Separation of incision opened wound
the greatest risk when doing CPR on elderly?
Fractured ribs
SNF patient elderly great risk for?
Pneumonia
 The one thing when caring for immuno suppressant patients?
Handwashing
What is one of the ways clients can get Nosocomial infection?
Health professionals with artificial nails
 double bagging
 Collecting inside the room and having a nurse waiting outside and bagging outside
When repositioning tubing catheter what measurement is a high measure?
Place catheter tubing lower than the client bladder
Type of isolation precautions for non-specific clients?
Standard precaution
A nurse caring for a client who is tube fed which of the following actions should the nurse perform when assessing a clients Gastric residual volume?
Stop infusion of the tube feeding formula
Constant dry cough leads to?
Can consume clients energy volume
What is the reason Folwer position?
No faint, dizziness or falls
 Good safety things to prevent falls
Know Good safety things in the environment
Pyuria
Puss in urine - purulence 
Generalized tonic-Colonic seizures
Stay with client, lower to floor, turn to side so they don’t aspirate 
4 risks for restraining clients?
- Increase client confusion
- chronic constipation, incontinence, infections (Pneumonia)
- May cause pressure ulcer
- progressive decline in ability to perform ADLs independently
How to tie restraints?
Slipknot
How to Prevent pressure ulcers?
Reposition every two hours
Prevent pressure ulcers and have a good skin care
Good high protein diet
Responsibilities of dysphagia
Always have suctioning equipment at the bedside
