bedmaking

• Bed making


  Technique of preparing different types of bed to make a patient/client comfortable or their position suitable for a particular condition
• Purpose of bed making

  • To provide the client with a safe and comfortable bed to take rest and sleep
  • To keep the ward neat and tidy
  • To adapt to the needs of the client and to be ready for any emergency or critical condition of illness
  • To economize time, material and effort
• Additional purposes of bed making

  • To prevent bed sores
  • To observe the client
  • For patient comfort
  • To prevent cross infection
  • For treatment of certain conditions
• Parts of the bed

  • Mattresses
  • Siderails
  • Footboard/Footboot
  • Bed cradles
  • Intravenous rods
• Mattresses


  • Firm, thick and smooth
  • Gives support to the client
  • All should have a washable cover
  • Size is 190cm width
• Siderails


  • Serve as a safe and effective means of preventing clients from falling out of bed
• Footboard/Footboot


  • Used to support the immobilized client's foot in a normal right angle to the legs to prevent plantar flexion contractures
• Bed cradles


  • Device designed to keep the top bedclothes off the feet, legs, and even abdomen of a client
• Intravenous rods


  • Usually made of metal, support intravenous infusion containers while fluid is being administered to a client
• Closed bed


  1. Made following discharge of the patient

  2. To keep the bed clean until new patient is admitted

  
• Open bed


  1. Fanfold top sheet to foot of bed to convert closed bed to open bed

  2. Fanfold means to fold sheets like accordion pleats

  3. Done to welcome a new patient or for patients who are ambulatory or out of
• Occupied bed


  1. Bed is made while patient is in it

  2. Usually done after the morning bath
• Surgical bed


  To facilitate easy transfer of the patient from stretcher to bed
• Bed with cradle


  1. Cradle placed on bed under the top sheet

  2. Prevents top sheets from touching parts of the patients body

  3. Used for burns, skin ulcers, lesions, blood clots, fracture or surgery

  4. Some cradles have light bulbs to provide heat for special treatment
• Commonly used bed positions

  • Flat
  • Fowler's positions
  • Semi Fowler's position (45 degree angle)
  • Trendelenburg's position
  • Reverse Trendelenburg's position