{"id":35,"date":"2025-09-15T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:37:20","slug":"cna-skill-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/cna-skill-13\/","title":{"rendered":"CNA Skill 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SKILL 13: MEASURES AND RECORDS THE WEIGHT OF AMBULATORY PATIENT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduce yourself and explain the procedure to the patient.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perform hand hygiene<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verify the patient is wearing nonskid footwear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Balance (or zero) scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walk the patient to the scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assist the patient to step on the scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check that the patient is centered on the scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check that the patient has their arms at their side.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure the patient is not holding on to anything that would alter the reading of the weight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjust the weights until the scale is in balance or read analog scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perform hand hygiene.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Document weight (plus\/minus 2 lbs. or 0.9 kg)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perform hand hygiene<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKILL 13: MEASURES AND RECORDS THE WEIGHT OF AMBULATORY PATIENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vesl.us\/californiacnatestprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}