CNA: Patient positioning & ambulation

Proper body mechanics are best defined as:

• properly using your body to facilitate a lift or move

• using a minimum of three people for any lift

• contracting the body's muscles to lift and move things

• lifting with your back and not your legs

Position of lying on stomach

• lateral

• supine

• prone

• Fowler's position

Position of lying on side

• Trendelenberg

• lateral

• supine

• prone

Position of lying on back

• reverse-Trendelenberg

• prone

• lateral

• supine

Handle used for support by patients

• transfer belt

• grab bar

• transfer sliding board

• crutches

When lifting a patient, your feet should be placed:

• one in front of the other

• shoulder-width apart

• as wide as possible

• as close together as possible

Which position is the patient in?

• Trendelenberg

• Reverse Trendelenberg

• Fowler's

• Prone

Which position is the patient in?

• Lateral Recumbent

• Fowler's

• Trendelenberg

• Prone

Patient lies on the left side with left arm behind the back, left knee is slightly bent, and right knee is flexed sharply

• Knee-chest position

• Sims' Position

• Trendelenburg Position

• Modified Trendelenburg Position

You move on the count of "3" to

• save time

• distract the person from the move

• move the person smoothly

• move the person slowly

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-1