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10 Cards in this Set
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HOB (head of bed) is elevated 45-60 degrees & similar to semi-fowlers position
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Fowler's Position
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HOB is elevated 30-45 with or without knees flexed
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Semi-fowler's Position
aka low fowler's Position |
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HOB is elevated 60-90 degrees; similar to sitting up erect (i.e. used, inserting nasal gastric tube, eating, and administering oral meds
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High fowler's Position
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Patient sits on side of bed or a chair leaning on an overbed table (table placed across lap) which facilitates chest expansion (i.e. used with COPD patients)
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Orthopneic Position
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Patient lies on back with no pillow (i.e. used with abdominal surgery patients)
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Dorsal Recumbent
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Patient lies on back with small pillow under head
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Supine
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Patient lies on their abdomen with their face turned to one side (i.e. used in patients with hemorroids or pilonidal cyst
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Prone
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Side laying position; flexing upper leg and hip, placing the leg in front of the body; lower arm flexed beside the head with upper arm flexed on top of body (i.e. use of R-Lateral after liver biopsy)
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Lateral Position
(Right and Left Positions) |
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Lower arm is beneath the patient while upper arm is flexed in front of patient. Upper leg flexed & placed in front of the lower leg (i.e. L-Sims administer enema or oral care to unconscious patient
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Sims Position
(Right and Left Positions) |
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HOB is flat and feet are up (toward the sky)
i.e. use of postural drainage of lower lobes of lungs and to promote venous circulation. REVERSE: HOB up & FEET down (i.e. used in GERD patients or after hiatal hernia repair |
Trendelenberg
and Reverse Trendelenberg |
