Test Your Knowledge of UAP Duties

UAP (Unlicensed Assistive Personnel) Duties: - Conduct passive range of motion exercises. - Record and document vital signs. - Not authorized to document urine color and characteristics. - Not authorized to offer orange juice to hypoglycemic clients. - Able to assist clients one day post-op in getting out of bed and going to the bathroom. - Not authorized to provide teaching reinforcement. - Able to remind clients to use an incentive spirometer. - Able to collect blood products from the blood bank. - Able to take vital signs before and after the first 15 minutes of a blood transfusion. - Able to perform non-sterile oral suctioning. - Able to report patient behavior but not monitor it. - Able to transport the body to the morgue. - Able to administer topical over-the-counter barrier creams. - Able to conduct vital signs and accuchecks. - Able to delegate Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). - Able to measure output in a drainage collection bag. Generally, noninvasive tasks and basic client care activities can be assigned to assistive personnel. Some of these tasks and activities may include: - ______ with ambulation - Providing basic skin care - ______ with bathing - Transporting clients - ______ with grooming - ______ with hygiene measures - ______ with positioning - Conducting range-of-motion exercises - Collecting certain specimens, such as urine or stool samples

UAPs are not authorized to document ______ color and characteristics.

UAPs are not authorized to offer ______ to hypoglycemic clients.