You Have Just Evaluated Your Patient, Who Is Recovering from Abdominal

Multiple Choice

You have just evaluated your patient, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, and you are preparing to assist the patient from the bed to the bedside chair using a squat-pivot transfer. Your assessment of the patient is that her lower-extremity strength is poor bilaterally. Which of the following positions would be the safest to assume for this transfer?

A) Behind the patient, with one hand on the gait belt and one on the anterior aspect of her shoulder
B) Beside the patient, with one hand on the gait belt and one on the anterior aspect of her shoulder.
C) In front of the patient, with both of her legs blocked by your legs
D) In front of the patient, with one of her knees blocked by your legs