How to Go Up and Down Stairs on Crutches Nursing NCLEX Review

How to go up stairs with crutches, and go down the stairs with crutches: live video demonstration.

In this video, we demonstrate going up the stairs using crutches, as well as going down the stairs with crutches safely. This not only helps with patient education, but it also helps for nursing school exams such as ATI, HESI, or NCLEX.

Crutches are a form of assistive nursing device, as are canes and walkers. Going up or down stairs can be dangerous, especially when using an assistive nursing device. It is generally advised that people take elevators or other methods when possible. However, when no other option is available, a patient may need to use crutches on stairs, and this video provides a demonstration on how to do that.

When going up the steps, use the good leg first. Then bring up the crutches and the bad leg.

When going down the steps, the crutches go down first, then the bad leg, followed by the good leg.

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[RegisteredNurseRN]

Hey, everyone! Thanks for watching. Don't forget:

[Aesthetics.Torres]

The amount of people that struggle with this is through the roof! It is not intuitive— Thanks Sarah!

[miaraenaogoy]

Thank you so much, student nurse here. You're teaching a lot, God bless!

[KatIoannou]

Short and sweet and to the point. Thank you

[jenillion]

Love this! Good up, bad down, easy to remember, but need to think because I'm right footed and usually start with my right foot on steps. Now i can't bear weight on that foot I'll think before I'll do those steps.

[randyszymkowski]

I had a hip replacement in March. Doing stairs with crutches was the last physio process I had to graduate in order to be released from the hospital. I was concerned about traversing my porch stairs at home with crutches post surgery about a month prior to the surgery. It was a little counter intuitive at first, but I was up the four rise stairs in about twenty seconds first time.

[RNScrub]

It is such an easy question, yet so hard just like the questions with using the cane

[Ashr_Is_Alive]

Just sprained my ankle, tysm it really helps because most of my classes at school are up stairs😅

[atpole]

Thank you for the visual. I appreciate your videos.
Some things are better learned visually, for the life of me I couldn't make sense of this reading it off a textbook

[shaylinalley]

Thank you so much for that good vs bad trick! That saves me so much time!

[vanessaolmos]

As a person who’s been on crutches, I used to hop and hope for the best.... wish I knew this back then

[Zaloomination]

Thanks for this great video! Simple, sweet, the video was useful, so I can see it in my head and make sense of it, and good pneumonic to remember it.

[mitchpetersmusic]

Thanks for the video, this is really valuable information.

[cher]

Yes you are amazing. This video will help this clumsy Nurse student.

[ataiwaris]

Mam u are so beautiful and teaching is also beautiful

[targetaiims]

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