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P.S.S Module 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the common hazards of the P.S.S? | Falls, Hypothermia, Burns, Electrical Safety, & Lifting and Moving. |
| Falls can cause what? | Broken hips, legs and arms that happen in older population and cause the end of their independence. |
| What can you prevent falls? | Remove frayed carpet,scatter rugs,losse tiles or liffted edges of linoleum,mop up wet floors,clean clutted hallways or paths, remove snow or ice,have appripriate footwear,check for defective walkers or canes,check for poor lighting... |
| Also make sure to secure inadeque handrails and check for pets that are underfoot to prevent falls. | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX |
| A consumer take medication that make them drowsy or they need ambulation also pevents what? | Falls. |
| What is hypothermia? | A bellow-normal body temperature that is normaly 96 degress that is dangerus people that are old, illness, weight loss, and certain medications. |
| What are the signs of hypothermia? | Unsual chage in behavior, confusion, sleepiness, clumsiness, slurred speech, and sallow breathing, if temputure is bellow than 96 degress call 911 immediately. |
| What can you prevent hypothermia? | Make sure consumer is dressed warmely on layers of clothing even indoors or in bed, serve hot food or liquids, make sure tenostat is between 68 or 70 degrees in living or slepping areas, and suggest fuel-assistance programs if appropriate. |
| Most burns are caused by liquid more than flames. True or False | True. |
| What can you do to pevent water burns? | Keep hot liquids out of reach of children make sure they are in the highchair or play place, supervise children or elderly in tubs, check thermostat of water heater(110 for baths & 120 for tap. |
| Should you wear gloves to check the temputur in the bath? | No, gloves makes you fell the water cooler, check plain hand. |
| For Electerical Safety, Lifting and Moving Risk and Guide lines turn to pg 98-100. | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX |
| What do you need to know in case of fire? | Your agency's policys and procedures, evacuation plan, location of escape routes, how to remove people from fire, find list of emergacy phone numbers, and fire control equiment and how to use the equiment. |
| What are the fire contol equiment? | Fire alams, doors, escapes, sprinkles, and extinquishes. |
| If fire happen in a home-base care what should you do? | Know exscape routes and test smoke dectors. |
| What is a fire triangle? | If there is enough oxygen, heat, and fuel to start the chemical reaction that is fire. |
| What are the common fire hazards? | Newspapers or books next to a radiator, paint rags in closet, frayed electical cords, overloaded electrical circuits, see the rest on pg 101-102. |
| What is RACE? | Rescure people, Alam, Contain fire, & Extinguish fire. |
| What is a Class A Extinguishers? | Puts out oridinary combustiblies like wood and paper. |
| What is a Class B Extinguishers? | Puts out any fire that involving flammable liquids such as grease, gasoline, oil, etc. |
| What is a Class C Extinquisher? | Any electrical fire. |
| What is a Multi-Class Ratings Extinquisher? | Can be any two or three classes that can put out the fire. Like Class A-B can put out normal and flammable liquid fires. |
| What is PASS? | Pull metal pin, Aim nozzle to base of fire, Squeeze handle, & Sweep from side to side. |
| If oxygen is used how do you pevent fires? | Use a no smoking sign, renind politely to not smoke in patients room. electical equiment should be montinerd, remove flammable materials, wool and synthetic fabric should be avoided. |
| If you are wroking with hazardous materials what should you look out for? | Proper Labelling and MSDS sheets. |
| What is MSDS? | Material Safety Data Sheets. |
| What must the MSDS have? | What does the chemical do(chemical & psyical properits), how chemical can hurt yo(physical&health hazards) how chemical enter your body(routes of exposure) how chemical can use safely(precaution for safe handling, how to treat chemical-see pg 106. |
| How can you use cleaning products safely? | READ AND FOLLOE LABAL DIRECTIONS; store it away from food, pets, and children; keep products in orginal containers along with label, put away immediately after useing them, keep buckets with cleaning away, propely close containers,&makesure area is clear |
| What do you do not use when using cleaning products? | Never mix them and reuse an empty cleaning product container for any other cleaning product. |
| What is poision? | Any substance that cause harmful effects in the body. |
| What are the most dangerous poisions? | medicines, iron pills, cleaning products that cause burns, antifrezze, windshield washer fluid, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, pesticides, and wild mushrooms. |
| What are hydrocarbons? | Any furniture pollish, lighter fluid, lamp oil, kerosene, turpentine, and paint thinner. |
| How can you make a poision-proof home? | Keep all poisions in orginal; labled; and child-proof containers, Keep it out of reach of children, ... see rest on pg 108. |
| What do you do if poisioning occurs? | Stay clam, notify your supervisor, immediately call poision control center have information about consumers contindion; age; weight;product;time; and your name & number, & follow instrustions. |
| What are pathogens? | Bacteria and virus that cause disease or abnormal functioning in your body. |
| What are infections? | Pathogens incade the cells of your body thay cause symptoms. |
| What is contagious? | A ifection that can be spred from one person to another. |
| What is OPIM? | Other Potentially Infectious Materials like blood or urine. |
| What are prevetive messures to proect you from OPIM? | Universal Precautions, Enginerring Controls, Work Practice Control, PPE, and Housekepping Mesures. |
| What are the Universal Precautions? | Approching blood as it was infected and stop contamination. Must wear PPE and control the disease. |
| What are Engining Controls? | Reduse employee exposure in workplace by removing the hazard or isolating the worker from exposure. See rest on pg 116-120. |
| Fist Add see 121-136 | Fist aid see 121-136 |
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