Principles of Patient Care

MED

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Principles of Patient Care

The application of basic patient handling, functional skills, communication, and selected data collection techniques. This course covers the skills required to safely mobilize a patient who has multiple diagnoses and restrictions from a hospital bed to lying on a stretcher, sitting on a bed, standing at the edge of a bed, or sitting in a wheelchair or chair. Concepts of communication, basic care and comfort, and documentation skills are incorporated to aid the student in meeting the psychological, physical, and environmental needs of the patient.

038134

Undergraduate

No