Basic Patient Care Skills
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Course Introduction
This course introduces students to the fundamental skills necessary for providing effective and compassionate care to patients in various healthcare settings. Topics include vital signs measurement, personal hygiene assistance, basic mobility techniques, infection control protocols, patient safety, and effective communication with patients and healthcare team members. Through a combination of classroom instruction, demonstrations, and hands-on practice, students develop the competence and confidence needed to support patient comfort, dignity, and well-being while adhering to established ethical and legal standards in healthcare.
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Mobility in Context Principles of Patient Care Skills 1st Edition by Charity Johansson
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Chapter 1: Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance
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Q1) Which of the following factors is most likely to motivate patients to engage in ongoing healthful behaviors?
A) Awareness that significant change is needed
B) Freedom from demands of work and home
C) Knowing the benefits of healthful behaviors
D) A high sense of self-esteem
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following examples is indicative of acculturation in the United States?
A) A Jewish couple from Israel attends an orthodox temple.
B) A Swedish couple travels 20 miles to shop at a Danish market.
C) A rural Vietnamese youth sings in a local rock group.
D) An elderly Latino speaks only Spanish at home.
Answer: C
Q3) List three tips for effective listening in a health-care encounter.
Answer: Look at the person who is talking; Make appropriate eye contact; Focus on what the person is saying; Avoid doing other things while the person is talking; Allow time for the person to process and respond to what you have said; Make sure you understand by summarizing or rephrasing what the patient has said.
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Chapter 2: The Mechanics of Movement
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Q1) If your patient has developed muscle atrophy while on a ventilator in the ICU, what is the most likely the cause?
A) The appropriate amount of load applied to the tissues
B) Too little load applied to the tissues
C) Too much load applied to the tissues
D) Repeated rapid load to the tissues
Answer: B
Q2) You are preparing to transfer a patient who just had bilateral knee replacements from the bed to the bedside chair. The patient is much taller than you are, and you want to make sure that the transfer is safe for you and the patient. As you face the patient, you determine that blocking both knees is not required. Which of the following positions is the best way to position your feet?
A) Place your feet about 10 in. apart and staggered.
B) Place your feet about 20 in. apart and side by side.
C) Place your feet about 30 in. apart and staggered.
D) Place your feet about 40 in. apart and side by side.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Special Environments
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Q1) List three factors that could result in homelessness.
Answer: Unemployment, poverty, domestic violence, chronic and severe health conditions, substance abuse, war, forces of nature
Q2) Which statement regarding patient positioning and tube feeding is true?
A) Adults who receive nasogastric tube feedings must wait 30 min before lying flat.
B) Patients who receive percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feedings should lie flat during feeding.
C) Patients who receive tube feedings of any kind must never lie flat.
D) Pediatric patients who receive nasogastric tube feedings must lie flat for 1 hr after feeding.
Answer: A
Q3) Stresses to patients in critical care units can be severe enough to result in negative psychological consequences. A state of confusion that develops in response to these stresses is known as ____________________.
Answer: ICU delirium
ICU syndrome
ICU psychosis
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Chapter 4: Keeping It Clean: Maintaining Cleanliness in the Clinical Environment
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Q1) ________________are infections acquired in any health-care setting.
Q2) Which of the following is a step in typical donning and doffing of personal protective equipment?
A) The order of doffing is not important, as long as all items are disposed of properly.
B) Hand hygiene is performed before donning personal protective equipment and after doffing it.
C) In most cases when doffing personal protective equipment, the gloves are removed last.
D) When donning gown and gloves, the gloves are typically put on first.
Q3) You have just finished performing wound care with a patient in his hospital room. You are cleaning up and have two cloth towels with wound drainage on them. How should you dispose of the towels?
A) Place them in the linen drop at the end of the hall.
B) Place them in bags designated for disposal of biohazardous linens.
C) Place them on the floor in the bathroom so the cleaning team can get them.
D) Place them in the trash in the patient's room.
Q4) Infections that are acquired in a hospital are called ________________infections.
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Chapter 5: Assessing Physiological Status: Vital Signs
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Q1) Which of the following is true regarding blood pressure?
A) It is the range of pressure exerted by the blood in the ventricles.
B) The difference between systolic and diastolic pressures is pulse pressure.
C) Blood pressure is affected by blood volume and vessel compliance, not by vessel size.
D) Values are affected only by pathological conditions.
Q2) When assessing a patient's carotid pulse, which of the following would you most likely do?
A) Palpate one artery with a light, circular massaging motion during assessment.
B) Palpate both arteries simultaneously for accurate comparison.
C) Stand on the opposite side of the artery you are assessing.
D) Use two fingers to palpate just to the side of the larynx.
Q3) Your new patient has a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In addition to heart rate and blood pressure, which vital sign measurement would generally be the most meaningful in this patient?
A) Pedal pulse
B) Urinary output
C) Respiration
D) Temperature
Q4) The openness of arterial vessels is called ____________________.
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Chapter 6: Draping for Minimum Exposure and Maximum
Dignity
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Q1) Which of the following is most commonly experienced by a patient whose examination or intervention requires the removal of clothing?
A) Anger
B) Sadness
C) Fear
D) Vulnerability
Q2) When you are getting to know a new patient, which of the following is essential for developing an effective therapeutic relationship?
A) Establishing a good line of communication between you and the patient
B) Establishing what your goals for the patient are going to be.
C) Letting patients know that they should not feel embarrassed about their disabilities
D) Explaining the behavioral expectations for patients in the clinic
Q3) Experiences of sexual and physical abuse can elicit patient responses that are similar to those associated with which disorder? ____________________
Q4) What is the proper procedure for handling linens following their use in draping?
Q5) List three benefits of draping patients:
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Chapter 7: Positioning Your Patient for Mobility
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Q1) List four things that you must be careful to ensure when doing long-term positioning with your patients. ____________________
Q2) Your patient is a 14-year-old girl who was in a motor vehicle accident and is now comatose in the ICU. You are working with the patient's family regarding appropriate positioning for this patient. Which of the following would be most appropriate to tell them?
A) Her inability to move independently makes her more vulnerable to skin breakdown.
B) The patient needs to be repositioned every 3 hours when she is lying in bed.
C) The patient should not remain sitting with the head of the bed elevated over 45° for more than 3 hours.
D) The patient should have a pillow under her heels while she is in supine.
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding spinal alignment of the seated patient?
A) Poor alignment can lead to increased mechanical loading and pain.
B) Allowing the feet to hang unsupported will decrease low-back stress.
C) In sitting, lumbar lordosis automatically self-corrects.
D) Increased thoracic kyphosis is unrelated to cervical lordosis.
Q4) List three bony prominences that are especially susceptible to pressure in the supine position.
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Chapter 8: Transferring Dependent Patients
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Q1) Which of the following items is generally not advised for repositioning of the seated patient?
A) Friction-reducing sheet
B) Sit-to-stand lift
C) Rigid transfer board
D) Total body lift
Q2) "Super obesity" is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m<sup>2</sup>.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is most strongly related to injuries sustained when assisting patients?
A) The age and weight of the person completing the transfer
B) The diagnosis of the patient being transferred
C) The number of repetitions of the task completed by the person
D) Unexpected changes in the patient's position during the transfer
Q4) The use of friction-reducing devices to perform lateral patient transfers is recommended because it eliminates the risk of injury to the clinician performing the transfer.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Maintaining Capacity for Mobility Through Range of Motion
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Q1) Ballistic stretching
A) involves a bouncing motion at the end of the range.
B) is most effective with sedentary individuals.
C) is more effective than static stretching.
D) results in long-term range of motion gains.
Q2) When is progression from passive range of motion therapy to active assistive range of motion indicated in the management of patients?
Q3) Spasticity is
A) a form of hypotonicity.
B) common in conditions such as stroke.
C) generally elicited with slow movements.
D) typically evident in only one muscle group.
Q4) To accurately assess capsular and ligamentous flexibility of two-joint muscles, it is necessary to lengthen the muscles simultaneously over both of the joints involved.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Maintaining maximum joint motion has long been considered a critical element of recovery. List at least four effects of passive range of motion exercises.
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Chapter 10: Bed Mobility
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Q1) List four indications and two contraindications for the use of a tilt table.
Q2) You are going to assist your patient, who requires moderate to maximum assistance, into a long-sitting position in the bed. Which of the following is the best position for you to assume?
A) Beside and slightly behind the patient, facing in the same direction as the patient
B) Beside and slightly in front of the patient, facing in the same direction as the patient
C) Beside the patient, with the patient holding firmly onto your forearm
D) In front of the patient, holding onto the gait belt
Q3) List at least three environmental factors that typically have to be managed or considered when performing bed mobility with your patient.
Q4) When transitioning from supine to sitting through side lying, what is the advantage of moving both legs off the edge of the bed together?
A) It allows the patient to maintain a neutral spine.
B) It is easier to move the legs together than individually.
C) It shifts the load to the upper extremities.
D) The legs provide a counterweight to the upper body.
Q5) What are at least three of the benefits of spending time in a seated position?
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Chapter 11: Horizontal Transfers
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Q1) Your patient is 73 years old and has just had a total hip replacement (posterior approach). He has had difficulty with alertness since coming to the room after surgery yesterday. You need to move him from sitting to standing with the walker for the first time, but you are concerned that he does not remember how to complete the maneuver with his hip precautions. What is one way that you can ensure his understanding?
A) Ask him to repeat the steps back to you before beginning.
B) Demonstrate the proper technique several times to make sure he understands.
C) Show him an illustration of the correct technique before attempting the maneuver.
D) Wait until the following day to attempt the activity.
Q2) What are the three ways to move a patient's hips forward in a chair in preparation for a transfer?
Q3) Which of the following factors is a requirement for performing independent seated lateral transfers without a transfer board?
A) Full weight-bearing on the lower extremities
B) Good trunk control
C) Good quadriceps strength
D) Level transfer surfaces
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Chapter 12: Vertical Transfers
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Q1) The turnaround into quadruped technique to move from a wheelchair to the floor requires that the patient rise from the seat and turn around before lowering the body to the floor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When is it most likely that a step stool will be required for transfers between chairs and plinths?
A) When the patient has a weight-bearing restriction
B) When the patient has weak quadriceps muscles
C) When the patient is 6 ft tall or taller
D) When the table surface is above the patient's gluteal folds
Q3) During a floor-to-wheelchair transfer, the casters are positioned forward. Why is this done?
A) To keep the chair from rolling during the transfer
B) To make the chair less likely to tip backward
C) To make the chair less likely to tip forward
D) To position the casters out of the way for the transfer
Q4) There are multiple acceptable ways to accomplish a floor-to-chair transfer.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Seated Mobility: Sitting but Not Sitting
Still--Fitting and Propelling a Wheelchair
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Q1) The most common method of transporting a patient in a wheelchair up and down steps is to ascend the steps backward.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Wheelchair selection is the domain of the durable medical equipment vendors and as such does not fall within the scope of skilled patient care.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You are working in a rehabilitation hospital and are responsible for helping patients obtain appropriate durable medical equipment. In considering wheelchair casters, which of the following choices would be most appropriate if you were concerned primarily about chair stability?
A) 2-in. casters
B) 5-in. casters
C) 6-in. casters
D) 8-in. casters
Q4) Why is a wheelchair considered a mobility orthosis?
Q5) What is meant by "90-90-90"? ____________________.
Q6) List at least four factors that must be considered in wheelchair selection.
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Chapter 14: Navigating the Challenges of Ambulating
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Q1) Your patient is an 83-year-old man who was referred to you after he fell in his bathroom. Which of the following is the best predictor of this patient's risk of future falls?
A) His history of previous falls
B) His limited trunk strength
C) His living environment
D) His short-term memory loss
Q2) Your patient is a 15-year-old girl who has just had knee surgery following a volleyball injury, and you are fitting her with axillary crutches. Which of the following is the greatest risk for the patient if her axillary crutches are too tall?
A) The crutches will increase the energy expenditure required for ambulation.
B) The crutches will be unstable and increase the risk of falling.
C) The crutches will cause irritation of the rib cage and make using the crutches painful.
D) The crutches will cause pressure in the axilla, potentially damaging nerves and vessels.
Q3) To stabilize a patient who is in the process of a(n) ________________fall, the clinician attempts to bring the patient's CoM back over his or her BoS.
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