Question

PSW MODULE 2 ASSIGMENT

Answer 1

Module 2 : MOBILITY AND SAFETY LECTURES

Purpose:         
To assist the student in acquiring basic concepts and skills in assisting clients to maintain optimal wellness or adapt to alterations in wellness that threaten patient safety, mobility and hygiene.

Introduction:

This explores the patient's ability to maintain optimal wellness for functioning through environmental safety methods, preservation of skin integrity, mobility, and hazards related to immobility and elimination and the actions required to facilitate wellness and protect the patient from potential hazards of immobility.

*Achievement of the objectives will be demonstrated in theory as well as the simulation and clinical laboratory.

Objectives:     
Following completion of this module the student will have the knowledge
and skills to:

1. Determine the patient’s personal hygiene needs to preserve the skin, muscle, and joints.

2.  Assess the patient’s skin: differentiating between normal and abnormal findings.

3. Identify characteristics of different decubitus ulcer stages and treatment modalities for each.          

4. Identify hazards of immobility which affect a client’s well-being.       

5. Discuss the various methods of restraint.        

6. Cite environmental hazards that threaten a client’s safety.       

7. Assess the patient for an alteration in elimination.

8. Determine legal, ethical, and regulatory standards that apply to the care of a patient with wellness stressors.     

9. Assess the patient’s musculoskeletal functioning.         

10. Identify cultural, ethnic, and growth and development factors that influence the patient’s well-being.      

11. Determine the patient’s rest and sleep patterns and abnormalities of sleep.    

12. Identify community resources available to assist the patient and family to adapt to wellness stressors.

13.  Utilize knowledge from the sciences, humanities, and nursing to assess the patient.           

14. Develop an evidence-based plan of care that meets the needs of clients with regard to safety, immobility, mobility, hygiene, rest and sleep, skin assessment, restraints, decubitus ulcer formation, and elimination.        

15.  Implement caring interventions to promote, maintain, or restore optimal wellness of the client, including identification of community resources if applicable.     

16. Evaluate the plan of care related to assisting the client with adapting to wellness stressors.

17. Identify self-learning needs related to promoting wellness in clients with alterations in mobility.

Simulated Learning Activity:
               
It will demonstrate ability to perform the following skills competently in the simulated settings:
                     a. Oral Care
                     b.  Bathing
                     c.  Perineal Care
                     d.  Backrub
                     e.  Foot care
                     f.   Condom catheter placement
                     g. Bed making: non occupied & occupied
                     h. Restraints placement and quick release
                      i. Range of motion exercises            
                      j. Patient and positioning
                      k. Transferring a client


Clinical Objectives:
         
             In the clinical laboratory setting the student will:

1. Organize needs of the client experiencing a wellness stressor related to environmental hazards; personal hygiene practices, rest and sleep patterns;
hazards associated with immobility, and elimination.

2. Develop an evidence-based plan of care to encourage a safe environment, appropriate personal hygiene practices, adequate rest and sleep, optimal mobility, skin integrity, and elimination.       

3. Implement caring interventions to promote environmental safety, positive personal hygiene practice, optimal sleep and rest, optimal mobility, skin integrity, and elimination.     

4. Evaluate the client response to caring interventions.

5. Evaluate self-learning needs related to caring for a client with adaptation related to mobility.