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Restorative care for hip surgery

Long-Term Care Nursing Advisor, June 17, 2005

Restorative care for a resident after hip surgery includes the following:

  • Range of motion exercises on the unaffected extremities
  • Turning and repositioning
  • Coughing and deep breathing exercises (if the resident is bedfast)
  • Assisting the resident to use the incentive spirometer every four hours, or as ordered
  • Pressure ulcer prevention
  • Assisting the resident with using the continuous passive motion CPM machine to improve range of motion, if ordered
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