List at least five ways the nursing assistant helps protect residents’ safety.
What will be an ideal response?
Keeps units clean and free of clutter, knows how to operate equipment correctly, uses standard precautions when providing care, follows the principles of medical asepsis, makes beds correctly, reports potential hazards as soon as noted, uses bedside rails and restraints correctly, knows and practices the fire safety plan, knows and practices the disaster plan, knows and practices emergency procedures for which she or he has been trained, and follows oxygen precautions.
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Which operating mode on the Dräger Babylog 8000 allows the clinician to adjust the flow during the expiratory phase to match the patient's needs during mandatory and spontaneous breaths?
a. Assist/control b. Intermittent mandatory ventilation c. Variable inspiratory, variable expiratory d. Continuous positive airway pressure
Branches of the hepatic ________ carry blood from the digestive organs to the hepatic lobules.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
After taking the temperature on a patient, the dental assistant notes the temperature as being 99.8 degrees F. This may indicate which of the following situations?
hypothermia blood loss illness such as a headache or intestinal upset bacterial infection