Assignment task: Range of Motion (ROM)
1. Discuss the importance of range of motion (ROM) for an older adult, a comatose client, and a client who can participate with the ROM exercise.
2. A client has had a CVA with left sided weakness. Discuss how to teach this client how to do passive ROM on the left side.
3. The client complains of joint pain that takes "days" to go away when a certain unlicensed assistant personnel (UAP) does ROM. What is the UAP most likely doing to cause this pain? What should the nurse do about this?