Moving and positioning Patients

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I have a nursing test coming up on moving and positioning patient's I've read the chapter and power points over 3 times now and believe that I have everything down pack. However I think that there's never enough I can know or make sure I know, so I was wondering if anyone has anything to throw in that most likely be on the test that can be easily forgotten, however it's very important. Anything?

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Specializes in Postpartum, Mother/Baby, Comm. Health, Geriatric.

Always think about safety (especially when repositioning and transferring) and airway.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

My school had the students practice moving, turning and positioning each other in a lab setting. If you don't have that opportunity, could you and fellow students kind of 'study' together and do the same thing? It seemed to make a world of difference to know how it actually felt to be moved, turned and positioned, and reinforced in the brain the particulars and requirements for each situation/disease process/injury. Repetition of actually doing it and having it done to you, and reiterating the theory and sequences during the practice helped a lot!

Just a thought....

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