Exam 17: Personal Hygiene and Bed Making

When teaching parents how to provide oral care to their child, the nurse instructs them to:

The optimal position for a female patient for the provision of perineal care is:

When taking a shower in the home setting, the patient at risk for falls may benefit from: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse assesses the patient's skin and notices an abrasion.Which of the following best describes this type of skin abnormality?

The home care nurse is getting ready to help the patient prepare a tub bath.What should the nurse be sure to do?

Patients at greatest risk for developing serious foot problems include those with: (Select all that apply.)

Critically ill patients on a ventilator are at risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).Sources of VAP include: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for a ventilated patient in the ICU who has just undergone coronary artery bypass.The nurse is concerned that the patient may be at risk for ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP).What step will she take to minimize this risk?

The nurse plans to give the patient a therapeutic bath.Which of the following is considered therapeutic?

What should hygienic care of the patient with dry skin include?

______________ are mucous membranes with underlying supportive tissue that encircle the neck of erupted teeth to hold them in place.

In relation to hygiene and the acute care setting, the nurse knows that which of the following statements is true?

Many foot ulcers are due to repeat trauma over time, often caused by ________________.

While giving the patient a bed bath, the nurse notices a reddened area on the patient's coccyx.The nurse should:

A nurse recognizes that a shampoo may be contraindicated for a bed-bound patient with:

The skin, the largest human body organ, protects us from heat, light, injury, and infection and does which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

_____________ is balding patches in the periphery of the hairline.

What should the nurse do before starting a patient's bed bath?

Tissue that surrounds the fingernail, slowly grows over the nail, and must be regularly pushed back with a soft nail brush is known as the __________________.

The patient requires postural drainage three times a day.Which of the following bed positions would be most appropriate for this task?