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| The ability to move contributes to a client's |
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| When will a patient eperience a period of immobilization? |
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| a client with acute and chronic illnesses, injuries, or surgery |
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| short duration kinda like a short girl is cute opposed to a really tall girl |
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Factors contributing to the client's mobility includes:
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| length of stay, severity of illness, emotional status, and physical condition |
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| As astudent, what would you need to be aware of with the outcomes of a patient with immobility |
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| Psychological, physiological, and developmental |
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| Why do nurses pay attention to body mechanics? |
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| to avoid injury to self and clients |
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| Body alignment and posture |
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| position of joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles while standing, sitting, and lying |
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| Body alignment means that the individuals center of gravity is stable. Where is the center of gravity on a person? |
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| Body alignment contributes to |
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| balance and conservation of energy |
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| the force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement. This is why nurses use lifts. |
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| weight force exerted on the body. force of weight is always directed downward. |
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| provides attachment for muscles and ligaments and provides for leverage if necessary for movement |
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| What is the body's supporting framework? |
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| Their are four types of bones in the skeleton. |
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| Long, short, flat, and irregular |
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| contribute to height and length |
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| Short bones(carpal bones in foot and patella) |
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| Permit movement of extremities with ligaments and cartilage involved |
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| Flat Bones (bones in skull and ribs) |
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| provide structural contour |
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| Irregular Bones(vertebrae) |
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| Make up the vertebral column |
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| fractures from bones with low calcium |
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| A person's flexibility is demonstrated through |
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| permit the muscle to shorten and closes the joint like pulling your arm in towards you shoulder |
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| when muscles lengthen. ex: lifting a weight and then letting it back down(muscles lengthen) |
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| lifting weights with no movement and no lengthening or shortening |
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| Muscles that attach to ? provide necessary strength to move an object. |
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| Posture and movement depend on the ? and the ? and ? of skeletal muscles. |
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| skeleton, shape, development |
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| transfer electric impulses from the nerve across the neuromuscular junction to the muscle |
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