Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Afternoon CNA Break

DRT 
 Composed by Marianna

  • Wash hands
  • Check to see if there are tissues in SC bucket and bring out SC and stool
  • Water management / take out blue hot dog pillow/rice in microwave
  • Prep 3 double paper towels and alcohol swab- put on dinner table
  • Move blind and take Tobii away
Here's how you should position Tobii:
  • Pull Don forward to about where the dinner table begins
  • Mouth suction
  • Lung Suction
  • After LS…
    • Open burp tube
    • Lean Don forward
    • Fix arms
    • Lower feet 
    • Put shoe strap around heels
  • Take off seat-belt and loosen the left strap of seat-belt enough to drape over the arm of the WC
  • Take out catheter bag (pull tube out from under legs so it’s sitting in between legs when draining) 
    • Put tissues from tube on Bertha to reuse
    • Hang leg strap on SC
    • Put urine bag in bathroom
    • Rip a small square off a paper towel in bathroome
  • Use square from paper towel to plug condom
  • Tuck condom into diaper
  • Take off burp tube (put in sink & rinse with water) and take off trach roll
  • Mouth suction

TRANSFER

  • Put Don's feet on your shoulders
  • Put strap on foot pedals and lower them all the way
  • Have PA hold forehead
  • Lean forward all the way- feet down so toes touch ground (may have to pull a little)
  • Sandwich legs with yours
  • Take off right arm lateral
  • Transfer to Shower Chair

IN SHOWER CHAIR

  • Hands in lap/shoes off/ lift feet and slide stool from behind legs/ diaper and shorts below knees
  • Pull plug out of condom, do not take the condom off
  • Check for “spot” in diaper
  • Put double paper towel over junk into bucket
  • Pull diaper and shorts over hands
  • Belly rub over large intestine; with force. Watch video below 
  • Batman pillow/ pull chair forward one notch/ lean Don forward
  • Cross hands (ring hand on top)/ put hands over knees/tuck double paper towel into hand (tuck by thumb, should hang forward)
  • Butt lift both sides
  • Fold Batman pillow
  • Check everything! (condom, push pillow down, socks over toes, toes not over stools, no clips stabbing, blue trach tube to the right of the white one & yellow tube up)

While Waiting

  • Empty suction bowl and fill jar
  • Get burp tube ready
  • Empty catheter bag
  • get prep H, baby wipes 

Complete Shower Chair

  • Remove pillow/ wipe lips with paper towel from hand/ lean back
  • Get catheter strap
  • Connect catheter bag/ push condom on ALL the way
  • Diaper and shorts up to hold hands
  • Wipe away until baby wipe is totally clean
  • Shoes on
  • Mouth suction
  • Get black box for transfer/ push condom all the way on one more time

Transfer!

  • Use Black Box to Transfer
  • Sandwich legs
  • PA guide hips back as far as possible
  • Push knees to get Don as far back as possible

Wheelchair Comfort

  • Pull down and Straighten out the back of his shirt
  • Lean back a little
  • Feet on pedals
  • Check and straighten condom, cath bag and tissues around blue tab position
  • Roll under trach
  • Straighten condom
  • Left butt lift
  • Seatbelt (make sure shorts are under the strap)
  • Cross arms and lean all the way back
  • Push HARD 2 times with hands just below kneecap & ask if it’s okay

THE SHOULDER TWIST 

  • Put both of your hands on Don's shoulders 
  • Put his left shoulder back while pushing right shoulder forward
  • Lift up Don's right hand and push right lateral in.
    Push the right elbow rest in position. 
  • Place blue roll pillow by left thigh
  • Lung Suction
    • Close burp tube
    • Feet almost all the way up. Tilt head back until you can reach him, your decision. 
  • Shoes off, blanket?
  • Adjust Neck Brace (Chin lift to tighten) /NEW bib
  • Move Wheelchair to big wheel in blue floor tape
    • AM- Place black blind behind chair to stop glare on computer screen
    • PM- Spin Don to face TV (hold power cord/ big wheels in line with blue tap)
Set Up Tobii
FINAL-
  • Mouth suction
  • Chapstick

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