Activity and mobility orders
HOB
head of bed
The angle the head of the bed is raised to, documented in degrees — "HOB 30°" — because several orders and precautions are written as a bed angle.
How it gets tested
The abbreviation appears inside positioning items: a scenario describes a tube feeding, a ventilator, or raised intracranial pressure, and the answer choices are bed angles.
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