Restorative skills

The client's comprehensive care plan is:

• an oral recording that orients the client to the healthcare facility

• a written list of treatments given to all clients in a healthcare facility

• an oral report given at the beginning and end of each shift about client census a written list of treatments given to all clients in a healthcare facility

• a written document that serves as a guide to the care given to a client 

A client who has had a hip replacement would NOT be permitted to

• wear athletic shoes

• drink citrus juices

• sit with legs crossed

• eat foods high in protein

The nurse aide is caring for a client who must remain flat. To promote self-care, the nurse aide should ask the client to bathe his own

• abdomen

• perineum

• feet

• face 

The nurse aide is participating in bladder training for a client. In order to accomplish this, the nurse aide SHOULD

• ask the client every 30 minutes if he needs to use the bathroom

• check the client's incontinence brief every hour for wetness

• take the client to the bathroom at scheduled intervals

• ask the nurse to insert an indwelling retention catheter

A client asks the nurse aide if there is any way to prevent getting the flu, The nurse aide should advise the client to

• get an annual flu shot

• get regular exercise

• get plenty of sleep

• get extra vitamin C 

It is important to encourage a client to get exercise because if muscles are not used they will:

• lengthen

• become contracted 

• enlarge

• gain strength

The nurse aide is working with a client on dressing skills. The BEST way to know that the client is able to be independent in dressing is to

• . leave the client alone and check on his progress in 5 minutes

• observe the client attempt to dress himself

• ask the client to recite the steps necessary for dressing 

• give the client written instructions to follow

The nurse aide reads in the care plan that the client's morning routine. includes ROM. Based on this information, the nurse aide should include in this client's morning care

• tidying up the client's room

• reading the client's menu

• monitoring the client for random movements

• exercising the client's extremities

If asked to do range-of-motion exercises on a client, the nurse aide SHOULD

• . make sure to flex and extend the joint or extremity

• ambulate the client at least 500 feet

• massage the client's extremity with lotion 

• elevate the client's leg or arm for at least 15 minutes

The nurse aide is working with a client who is paralyzed from the waist down. The client is learning to move independently from the wheelchair to the bed. To complete this task, the client MUST learn to use a

• mechanical lift

• transfer board

• motorized wheelchair

• walker