A nurse who provides care on a rehabilitative medicine unit of a hospital works with numerous geriatric patients. Which of the following principles most accurately guides the nurse's efforts to integrate range-of-motion exercises into patient care?

Question

A) Passive range-of-motion exercises should be delegated to physiotherapists in order to reduce the chance of injury.
B) Patients should be encouraged to put all of their joints through a range of motion at least once daily.
C) Performing range-of-motion exercises as slowly as possible maximizes their benefit.
D) Range-of-motion exercises are contraindicated in patients with existing cardiac conditions.

Answer 1

B
Feedback:
Ideally, patients should put each joint through its range of motion at least once per day. Passive range of motion can be performed by nurses and exercises should be performed slowly and steadily, but not as slowly as possible. Heart disease does not categorically contraindicate the performance of range-of-motion exercises.