1. The Long-Term Care Facility as
Home
NATCEP Day Fourteen

2. Objectives
• Identify major items in the resident’s unit
• Identify measures to keep the resident’s
environment comfortable
• Identify measures necessary to maintain a safe
and clean unit

4. Equipment
• Call Light System
• Furniture
▫ Bed
▫ Bedside Table
▫ Chairs
• Urinals
• Supplies
• Belongings

5. Keep Them Comfortable!
• Adjust temperature
• Extra humidity
▫ Respiratory Disorders
▫ Only as directed by nurse
• Adjust lighting

6. Keep Safe & Clean!
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Call light within reach
Chairs out of path of traffic
Urinals in reach for male residents
Bedside stand within safe & easy reach
Supplies clean and put away
Bed locked and in lowest position
Respect resident’s space and belongings
▫ Not ours to throw away
• Unit cleaned daily
▫ Responsible to keep neat & orderly

7. Bed-making Techniques and
Comfort Measures
NATCEP Day Fourteen

8. Objectives
• Identify guidelines for bed-making
• Identify types of bed-making
▫ When each is appropriate

9. Why is bed-making important?
• Resident Comfort
• Medical Asepsis – cleanliness
• Safety related to pressure ulcers

10. Rules of Medical Asepsis
• Never shake linens
• Hold linens away from uniform
• Never put dirty linens on the floor or on clean
linens
• Extra linens brought into the resident’s room
cannot be used for another resident

11. Types of Bed-making
• Unoccupied
▫ The resident is able to leave the bed while
it is made
• Occupied
▫ The resident remains in the bed while it is
made

12. Types of Beds Made
• Closed
▫ Made with the top sheet and spread pulled all
the way up
▫ Used when the resident will be out of the bed
for the day

13. Types of Beds Made
• Open
▫ The top sheet and spread are fan-folded to the
bottom of the bed
▫ Allows easy access by the resident; can pull
the sheets and spread up easily.

14. Types of Beds Made
• Surgical
▫ Made with top sheet fan
Folded lengthwise to the
side of the bed farthest
from the door