Positioning & Assistive devices

Question 1

Partial weight bearing client with vertigo

Answer 1

THREE-POINT GAIT

Question 2

Reduce low back pain
Rest

Answer 2

LOW-FOWLER’S

Question 3

• Partial weight bearing
• Stability
• Each leg advances alternately
  with opposing crutch

Answer 3

FOUR-POINT GAIT

Question 4

___ finger space between
armpit & top of crutch

Bend in elbows

Answer 4

2-3

Question 5

DOWN THE STAIRS
Crutch on ____ side

____ leg & crutch ___

____ leg follows

Answer 5

good
bad; down
good

Question 6

• Best for lung expansion
• Decrease aspiration risk
• Pulmonary embolism
• Placing an NGT
• Taking X-rays
• Eating

Answer 6

HIGH-FOWLER’S

Question 7

• Non-weight bearing or partial weight
  bearing clients
• Requires balance
• Stand on the unaffected leg
• Move both crutches forward
• Brace the hand grips for support
• Swing both legs through the crutches

Answer 7

SWING-THROUGH GAIT

Question 8

• Gastric emptying
• Post-op liver biopsy

Answer 8

RIGHT LATERAL RECUMBENT

Question 9

Tet spell
Prolapsed umbilical cord

Answer 9

KNEE-TO-CHEST

Question 10

Stand in the center of the walker

Slide walker forward ___ inches

Keep all 4 feet of walker on ground

Step forward with ____ side

Keep weight on the walker and
_____ leg

Bring _____ leg up to walker

Answer 10

6-8 inches
affected
unaffected
unaffected

Question 11

Cane goes on the ____ side

Slight bend at the elbow

Cane moves forward ____ inches

____ leg moves forward with cane

_____ leg then moves past the
cane

Answer 11

unaffected
6-10
affected
unaffected

Question 12

Partial weight bearing client with unsteady gait

Answer 12

FOUR-POINT GAIT

Question 13

• Non-weight bearing and can progress
  to partial weight bearing
• Crutches advanced with affected leg
• Unaffected leg brought forward

Answer 13

THREE-POINT GAIT

Question 14

• Prepare for walking
• Rest after feeding if
  NGT or aspiration risk
• Decrease ICP
• GERD

Answer 14

SEMI-FOWLER’S

Question 15

• Promote gastric emptying
• Prevent reflux

Answer 15

REVERSE TRENDELENBURG

Question 16

GERD
Trach care

Answer 16

SEMI-FOWLER’S

Question 17

Assessments to
client’s anterior

Answer 17

SUPINE

Question 18

• Promotes venous return
• Hypotension
• Prolapsed umbilical cord
• Air embolism
  (Left lateral Trendelenburg)

Answer 18

TRENDELENBURG

Question 19

Pregnancy

Answer 19

LEFT LATERAL RECUMBENT

Question 20

• Partial weight bearing
• Crutch and opposing leg
  forward at same time

Answer 20

TWO-POINT GAIT

Question 21

UP THE STAIRS
Crutch on ___ side

____ leg up

Crutch and ____
side follow

Answer 21

bad
good
bad

Question 22

• Assessment of
  perineal area
• Enema
  (Left Sims)

Answer 22

SIMS

Question 23

Partial weight bearing on both legs and minimal support needed

Answer 23

TWO-POINT GAIT

Question 24

• Extension of hips and knees
• Drainage of secretions
• Cleft palate
• ARDS

Answer 24

PRONE