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    The document provides instructions for making a surgical bed for a patient after a procedure. Key steps include: 1) Stripping the bed and leaving pillows on a chair to facilitate transfer. 2) Applying bottom and top linens in layers for ease and efficiency. 3) Folding back the top linens on one side to form a triangle for easy patient transfer. 4) Leaving the bed in a high position with rails down and wheels locked to facilitate safe patient transfer.

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    1 Making A Surgical Bed

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    The document provides instructions for making a surgical bed for a patient after a procedure. Key steps include: 1) Stripping the bed and leaving pillows on a chair to facilitate transfer. 2) Applying bottom and top linens in layers for ease and efficiency. 3) Folding back the top linens on one side to form a triangle for easy patient transfer. 4) Leaving the bed in a high position with rails down and wheels locked to facilitate safe patient transfer.

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    The document provides instructions for making a surgical bed for a patient after a procedure. Key steps include: 1) Stripping the bed and leaving pillows on a chair to facilitate transfer. 2) Applying bottom and top linens in layers for ease and efficiency. 3) Folding back the top linens on one side to form a triangle for easy patient transfer. 4) Leaving the bed in a high position with rails down and wheels locked to facilitate safe patient transfer.

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    1 Making A Surgical Bed

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    Ann Jalover Perez
    The document provides instructions for making a surgical bed for a patient after a procedure. Key steps include: 1) Stripping the bed and leaving pillows on a chair to facilitate transfer. 2) Applying bottom and top linens in layers for ease and efficiency. 3) Folding back the top linens on one side to form a triangle for easy patient transfer. 4) Leaving the bed in a high position with rails down and wheels locked to facilitate safe patient transfer.

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    MAKING A SURGICAL BED DEFINITION: While the client is in the operating room, the clients bed is prepared for

    the postoperative phase. EQUIPMENT: 1. two flat sheets or one filtered and one flat sheet. 2. Cloth drawsheet 3. One blanket 4. One blanket 5. Plastic laundry bag or portable linen hamper, if available INTERVENTION RATIONALE Makes linen easier to remove. Pillows are left on a chair to facilitate transferring the client into bed. A flannel bath blanket provides additional warmth.

    1. Loosen linens at foot of bed and strip the


    bed.

    2. Place and leave the pillows on the bedside


    chair. 3. Apply the bottom lines as for an unoccupied bed. Place a bath blanket on the foundation of the bed if this is agency practice.

    4. Place the top covers (sheet, blanket, and


    bedspread on the bed as you would for an unoccupied bed. Do not tuck them in, miter the corners or make a toe pleat.

    Applying linen over bed in successive layers minimizes energy and time nurse uses in bedmaking.

    5. Make a cuff at the top of the bed as you


    would for an unoccupied bed. Fold the top linens up from the bottom.

    6. On the side of the bed where the client will


    be transferred, fold up the two outer corners of the top linens so they meet in the middle of the bed forming a triangle.

    7. Pick up the apex of the triangle and fanfold


    the top linens lengthwise to the other side of the bed.

    To facilitate the clients transfer into the bed.

    8. Leave the bed in high position with the


    side rails down.

    The high position facilitates the transfer of the client. Locking the wheels keeps the bed from rolling when the client is transferred from the stretcher to the bed.

    9. Lock the wheels of the bed if the bed is


    not to be moved.

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