Health Skills Review - Webs
AHA 3 Midterm Review – December 2017
Ch. 2 – Health Career Clusters
• Description of 5 clusters
• What occupations work in each?
• Major Functions
Ch. 4 – Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
• Malpractice:
• Negligence:
• Abuse including signs and types
• Defamation:
• Invasion of Privacy:
• Slander:
• Libel:
• False Imprisonment:
• Assault vs. Battery
• Ethics vs Legal including interventions used at hospital to ensure ethical and legal practice
• Patients’ Rights (examples and patient’s responsibility)
• Types of advanced directions
• HIPAA inc. PHI
• Types of consent
• Incident Reporting – who performs and in what time frame
Ch. 8 – Cultural Diversity
• Definition and Characteristics of culture
Ch. 12 – Promotion of Safety:
• Fire procedure inc. PASS and RACE
• Principles of body mechanics
Ch. 13 – Infection Control
• HIV vs. AIDS
• Hand washing procedure
• Standard/Universal Precautions:
o What is included (i.e., PPEs)
o Who developed
o When do you use:
• Transmission- Based Precautions: what type of condition would require which isolation and what equipment is needed for each
o Airborne:
o Droplet:
o Contact
o GI Precautions
Ch. 14 – Vital Signs
• Temperature: definition, normal readings; etiology of hyperthermia/hypothermia
• Pulse: normal values; sites
• Respirations: normal values, abnormalities (Cheyne-Stokes, dyspnea)
• Blood Pressure – Normal values, factors that increase or decrease, procedure
Chapter 20 – Nursing Assisting Skills:
• Transferring a patient from bed to wheelchair
• Transporting a patient in a wheelchair on a stretcher – safety aspects
Chapter 21 –Physical therapy Skills
• ROM – types and procedure
• Main movements i.e., flexion, rotation, circumduction, etc.
• Crutches and walkers – how they are used, different gaits, proper set up
• Use of a transfer belt
Miscellaneous/Clinical Rotations:
Alerts specific to Memorial
Ch. 15 – First Aid/CPR:
• CPR – adult, child, infant (reasons fro stopping CPR, use of AED)
• Signs/treatment of shock
• Definitions: laceration, incision, abrasion, puncture
• Care of Poison victim
• Types of burns and their treatment
• Treatment for a seizure
• Information needed by EMS
Ch. 19 – Medical Assistant Skills
• Patient positioning
Ch. 21 – Physical Therapy Skills
• Transporting a pt on a stretcher (rules)
• Gait – two-point, swing through, three-point, four- point
• Three times a pulse is checked during the transferring procedure (i.e., bed to chair)
• Types of Motion:
o Abduction, Adduction
o Circumduction, rotation
o Flexion, extension, hyperextension
o Inversion, eversion
o Dorsiflexion
• ROM (# of times performed)
o Active
o Active-assistance
o Passive
o Resistive
Abbreviations – week 5-9
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