Chapter 21: The Person's Unit

Getting caught, trapped, or entangled in spaces created by the bedrails, the mattress, the bed frame, the head-board, or the foot-board

• Hospital Bed System

• Entrapment

• Person's Unit

• Full Visual Privacy

Having the means to be completely free from public view while in bed

• Full Visual Privacy

• Person's Unit

• Entrapment

• Hospital Bed System

The bed frame and its parts- mattress, bed rails, head and foot-boards, and bed attachments

• Person's Unit

• Full Visual Privacy

• Entrapment

• Hospital Bed System

The space, furniture, and equipment used by the person in the agency

• Entrapment

• Hospital bed System

• Person's Unit

• Full Visual Privacy

The head of the bed is raised and the foot of the bed is lowered

• Trendelenburg's Position

• Reverse Trendelenburg's Position

The head of the bed is lowered and the foot of the bed is raised

• Trendelenburg's Position

• Reverse Trendelenburg's Position

Along with age, illness, and activity, what other factors affect comfort?

• Ventilation and noise only

• Odors and lighting only

• Temperature only

• Temperature, ventilation, noise, odors, and lighting

True or False: What is comfortable for 1 person is comfortable for another

• True

• False

What can you say to ask about the person's comfort?

What are 3 examples of risks of entrapment?