PNUR1128 Nursing Concepts 1

Today's episode is the first two units of the Week 2 package, in the order the package lists them: Body Mechanics and Alignment (item 1 of the Table of Contents) and Bed Making (item 2). This unit is…

Strip a bed bath down and it is four moves: get her ready, wash her in the order the body allows, watch every part of her skin while you do it, and finish the areas that carry their own rules — the mo…

Ask a patient how her bowels have been this week, and watch her face. Most people look away and give you the shortest answer they think they can get away with — which is exactly what makes this unit h…

Press a thumb into a red patch over a patient's sacrum, and the skin tells you something. If the colour drains away under your thumb and comes back, that is pressure caught in time. If it stays red wh…

A practical run through the PNUR1128 Week 2 assessment, in the order you'd actually meet it on the floor: your own body first, then the bed and the room, then the self-care skills, then the assessment…