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Testing Tip: Use an alcohol pad to count respiration!
Testing Tip: Respirations are easier to count if you place an alcohol pad on the patient’s abdomen. Why? Your eye is drawn to motion with contrasting colors. Since the alcohol pad packet is often...
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Testing Tip: Let the Patient Check the Water!
For all washing skills (hand and nail care, foot care, partial bed bath, peri-care, catheter care), you will go fill a basin with water to bring it to the bedside. You will check the water temperature...
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Testing Tip: Basins are “NO SOAP ZONES”
When preparing for bathing a patient, do not add soap to the water in the basin. By adding soap to this water, you lose the ability to use it for rinsing. Place the soap on the washcloth instead. This...
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Testing Tip: Close the Privacy Curtain For All Skills…Except One!
Providing privacy for skills is an essential component of patient care. It may not always make sense to you to close the privacy curtain for certain skills, but it must be done! I often hear questions...
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Testing Tip: Raise the Bed?
Hospital beds are great! They can be adjusted higher to make it easier for you to do your skills…less bending equals less stress on your back! And you are more than welcome to raise a bed to a...
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Testing Tip: Dentures in a Cup?
CNAs are not generally required to take a patient’s dentures out or put them in. This is a safety measure for both the CNA and the patient. Why? Because trying to “pop” dentures from the lower jaw...
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