BED MAKING
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- Mobility - The ability to move freely
- Normal Movement - Result from intact musculoskeletal system
- Surgical Bed - Fanfolded Horizontally
- Body Alignment - Promotes optimal balance and maximum body function
- Line of Gravity - an imaginary vertical line drawn to the body center of gravity
- Center of Gravity - the point at which the body's mass is centered
- Base of support - the foundation on which the body rest
- Labyrinth (Inner Ear) - the vestibule and semicircular canal are responsible for equilibrium
- Twisting, Stooping, Rotating - Movements to avoid
- Cerebral Cortex - initiates voluntary motor activity
- Cerebellum - coordinates motor activities of movement
- Basal Ganglia - Maintains posture
- Body Mechanics - Term used to describe the efficient, coordinated, and safe use of the body to move
- 25% - Nurses Complain of chronic back pain
- 12% - Leave the profession due low back pain
- 20% - Transfer to different setting due to low back pain
- 25% - Change Jobs
- Do not lift more than 51 pounds
- Sim's position - patient lies between supine and prone with the legs flex in front of the patient
- Sim's Position - use for patient undergoing enemas or examination of the perennial area and to avoid pressure on the sacrum
- Fowler's Position - patients head of the bed is placed at 45 to 90 degree angle
- Low Fowler's Position - patience head of the bed is placed at 15 to 45 degree angle used for patients who have cardiac or respiratory conditions
- High Fowler's - 90 Degrees
- Trendelenburg Position - place the head of the bed lower than the feet used for hypotension and medical emergencies that promote venus return to major organs such as the head and heart
- Orthopneic Position - also called tripod position wherein the patient is placed either in a sitting position or on the side of the bed with an over bed table placed in front to lean on
- Dorsal Recumbent - patient lies on the back with the lower extremities moderately flex and rotated outward
- Lithotomy Position - involves the positioning of an individual's feet above or at the same level as the hips with the perineum position at the edge of an examination table
- Pivoting - a technique in which the body is turned in a way that avoids twisting of the spine