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NHA PCT EXAM STUDY GUIDE
1. - General Patient Care:
2. Provide basic patient care under the direction of nursing staff: ex: bathing,bed making,
catheter care, transfer, assisting with ALDs
3. Provide emotional support for patients and their families while performingpatient
care:
4. Support the coping mechanisms of patients and their families who aredealing
with grief, death, or are dying.:
5. Set up equipment to be used by the patient: ex: oxygen, alternating pressuremattresses
6. Provide patient care for a patient with a feeding tube: ex: aspiration precau-tions,
observe tubing for kinks or problems
7. Perform care related to the special needs patient: ex: physically, sensory,cognitively,
or mentally impaired
8. Report any new changes in a patients' condition: ex: level of consciousness,shortness of
breath
9. Monitor and record functions related to digestion: ex: bowel movements,percentage
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of meal eaten
10. Monitor, record, and accurately measure intake/ output: ex: urine, emesis,wound
drainage
11. Assist in admission, discharge, and/or transfer of the patient to anotherunit or
facility:
12. Follow the established restorative plan of care ordered for the patient:
13. Perform passive Range of Motion (ROM) for the patient:
14. Assist with restorative rehabilitation activities: ex: bowel and bladder retrain-ing
15. Use adaptive devices for activities of daily living: ex: feeding and dressingdevices
16. Keep patient area clean:
17. Remove peripheral IVs:
18. Perform dressing changes: a) sterile
b)aseptic
19. Transfer the patient using a mechanical lift:
20. Manually lift and transfer the patient:
21. Apply immobility splints to patients:
22. Provide one-on-one care for patients who are at risk for suicide:
23. Provide skin care: ex: repositioning, creams, moisture barrier
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NHA PCT EXAM STUDY GUIDE
1. - General Patient Care:
2. Provide basic patient care under the direction of nursing staff: ex: bathing,bed making,
catheter care, transfer, assisting with ALDs
3. Provide emotional support for patients and their families while performingpatient
care:
4. Support the coping mechanisms of patients and their families who aredealing
with grief, death, or are dying.:
5. Set up equipment to be used by the patient: ex: oxygen, alternating pressuremattresses
6. Provide patient care for a patient with a feeding tube: ex: aspiration precau-tions,
observe tubing for kinks or problems
7. Perform care related to the special needs patient: ex: physically, sensory,cognitively,
or mentally impaired
8. Report any new changes in a patients' condition: ex: level of consciousness,shortness of
breath
9. Monitor and record functions related to digestion: ex: bowel movements,percentage
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of meal eaten
10. Monitor, record, and accurately measure intake/ output: ex: urine, emesis,wound
drainage
11. Assist in admission, discharge, and/or transfer of the patient to anotherunit or
facility:
12. Follow the established restorative plan of care ordered for the patient:
13. Perform passive Range of Motion (ROM) for the patient:
14. Assist with restorative rehabilitation activities: ex: bowel and bladder retrain-ing
15. Use adaptive devices for activities of daily living: ex: feeding and dressingdevices
16. Keep patient area clean:
17. Remove peripheral IVs:
18. Perform dressing changes: a) sterile
b)aseptic
19. Transfer the patient using a mechanical lift:
20. Manually lift and transfer the patient:
21. Apply immobility splints to patients:
22. Provide one-on-one care for patients who are at risk for suicide:
23. Provide skin care: ex: repositioning, creams, moisture barrier
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