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NR 224 Hygiene Worksheet – Chamberlain College of Nursing Hygiene Worksheet Hygiene is necessary for infection control. Describe the order of giving personal hygiene. Why is it important to ... ask a patient their personal preferences in hygiene? What factors influence hygiene? What special considerations should the nurse have when bathing the older adult patient? • What difference does the older patient have physiologically that would impact the bathing regime. • What issues with soap does the older adult have? • How frequently as compared with other patients should the older adult be bathed? Patients with Diabetes Mellitus have special requirements when it comes to foot care. • What are the special requirements? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What is orthopnea? In ANY patient having difficulty breathing, what is the nurse’s FIRST priority? What do we assist patients in TURNING, COUGHING and DEEP Breathing (T,C & DB) when they are immobile? • What is the condition we are trying to prevent when we ask the patient to T,C and DB?? What is orthostatic hypotension? • What physiologically happens to the patient to cause orthostatic hypotension? • Who is at risk for orthostatic hypotension? • What is the priority nursing concern for the patient with orthostatic hypotension? • How can we decrease the impact/injury from orthostatic hypotension? What does TED stand for and what are TED Hose used for? What is log rolling and what type of patient would we use the logrolling technique? Crutch walking- how should you instruct the patient to walk? • What surface of the body should the patient bear the weight when utilizing crutches for ambulation? [Show More]

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