providing privacy?

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Do you have to provide privacy when your doing the following procedures: pulse & respiration, mouth care, removing waist restraint, and transferring pt to wheel chair?

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Specializes in 6 yrs LTC, 1 yr MedSurg, Wound Care.

Yes. You pretty much provide privacy for everything.

I remember when state was coming last year (my first time), a friend/co-worker told me to be sure to shut the door even if you are just tying a shoelace.

Maybe the patient doesn't want someone else to see them brushing their teeth, or struggling to walk from their wheelchair to bed. I try to look at things from their point of view.

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Specializes in done LTC and Hospital and Home Health..

moving from bed to chair on the test we didn't have to pull the curtain but everything else we pretty much had to.. but while providing care or attending to their needs YES always pull the curtain. or close the door etc

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Just to be safe do it. When I took my CNA class we'd get marked off if we didn't provide privacy at the right times, but if we provided privacy and it wasn't needed there weren't any deductions

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Specializes in done LTC and Hospital and Home Health..
Just to be safe do it. When I took my CNA class we'd get marked off if we didn't provide privacy at the right times, but if we provided privacy and it wasn't needed there weren't any deductions

yes exactly you don't get in trouble for doing it just for not doing it. We had a list of a couple of things you really didn't need to all of them I questioned anyways cause it was for stuff that I would have closed the door/pulled the curtain for anyways LOl

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Always close the door. As for pulling the curtain, I agree with the others to say that it does not hurt to do it, and it's better to be safe than sorry.

In my daily work, I don't necessarily pull the curtain every time I touch one of my residents. But now that it is nearing time for state to come to our facility, I am trying to get in the habit of pulling the curtain, just to be safe.

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Specializes in done LTC and Hospital and Home Health..

The way our rooms are set up you have to pull the curtain the rooms are huge BUT if someone comes in you will be able to see our residents if someone was walking by their room and another aide comes in or whatever the scenario may be.. You get the picture LOl

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