The use of lifting equipment is essential for a successful safe patient handling program and has been shown to reduce exposure to manual lifting injuries by up to 95 percent. Safe patient handling programs reduce the risk of injury for both health care workers and patients while improving the quality of patient care
The leading causes of death in children under the age of 1 year are developmental and genetic conditions that were present at birth, as well as
conditions due to premature birth. Other notable causes are unintentional injuries which can be fatal and homicide.
Answer:
D . Charting
Explanation:
The Four Cs are adopted or used by medical practitioners or healthcare professionals to guide or protect them legally in the course of discharging their duties.
These four Cs are
* Caring.....Probably using person's name and avoid destructive unethical criticism of the work of others.
* Communication...... Be clear and ask questions for confirmation. Communication should be clear and pass across accordingly, and report adverse events to those in control.
* Competence.... Do your job as expected of you. Follow standards of care and appropriate procedures. Keep your skills updated. Always double check your work
* Charting... meaning that everything should be documented. That is why it is said "If it is not written in the chart it did not happen". Use facts only in charting to keep it accurate.
Answer: Monitoring for any change in color and edema at the injury site
Health education on self care of the colostomy
Fluid resuscitation (may also be considered medical care)
Patient diet should be monitored as patient should be on a liquid diet.
Explanation:
1) we are monitoring for any change in color at the site of injury, because of infection. If there is infection there is likely to be change in color of injury site.
Edema is a swelling, If there is a swelling at the injury site post operation, then it means something is wrong.
We then act because we don’t want sepsis to set in.
Fluid resuscitation because it is likely that patient becomes dehydrated post operation.
Also Patient’s diet is monitored because of the surgery we don’t want patient to be taking solid food so as to prevent an irritation of the gastrointestinal tract.
The answer is muscle endurance
