Patient positions

If someone is in supine position they are...

• Laying on their stomach

• Laying on their back

• Laying on their side

• Laying on their left side

If someone is laying on their stomach they are...

• supine

• prone

• Sims

• low Fowler's

Laying on your side with one knee and hip bent or flexed is...

• Knee-chest

• lateral

• left lateral

• Sims'

The recovery position is...

• Sims'

• Prone

• Left lateral

• Lateral

If someone is in a hospital bed with knees slightly bent and head of the bed ay 80 degrees they are in...

• High Fowler's

• Low Fowler's

• Supine

• Semi-Fowler's