Settings of Care
A residence for people who do not need 24 hour care but require some help with daily care
What is assisted living?
The use of proper standards of behavior at work and in work-related settings
What is Professionalism?
This role assesses residents, creates care plans, monitors progress, provides skilled care, administers treatments and medications, and supervises care given by CNAs and other members of the care team
What is a Registered Nurse (RN)?
The assignment of tasks to another person that are within their scope of practice
What is Delegation?
People who live in a long term care facility
What are "Residents?"
Holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately 6 months or less to live
What is hospice care?
Deserving of the trust of others, honest, truthful and accurate in documentation, guards patient privacy
What is trustworthiness?
The most important member of the care team
What is the resident?
Name 3 tasks that a Nursing assistant can not perform
Administer medications
change a sterile dressing
insert tubes, IVs or catheters
The medical abbreviation for care given at bedtime
What is "HS"?
a program of care given by specialists, such as physical therapists, to restore or improve function after an illness or injury
What is "Rehabilitation?"
Polite, kind and considerate
What is Courteous?
What is an occupational therapist (OT)?
An unlicensed health care worker who performs assigned nursing tasks and gives personal care
What is a CNA (or Nursing assistant)?
If a heart rate is above ______ BPM or less than ______ BPM it should be reported to the Nurse
(Two numbers in the correct order)
What is 100 and 60 bpm?
24 hour skilled care provided in long term care facilities for people with ongoing conditions
What is "Long Term Care?"
Guided by a sense of right and wrong, principled
Identifies communication disorders and swallowing problems, and develops a plan of care
What is a Speech Language Pathologist or Speech Therapist?
ADLs
Is an abbreviation for....
What are Activities of Daily Living?
The pulse point that is taken on the patient's chest with a stethoscope
What is an Apical pulse?
Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or a therapist
What is "Skilled Care?"
The ability to admit when one has made a mistake, apologize and are open to growth
What is accountable?
The professional who manages all nursing care at a facility and in the "Chain of command" answers to the Medical Director and the Administrator
What is the "Director of Nursing (DON)"?
Only Nurses can "EAT"
What do each of these letters refer to? in relation to scope of practice? (three words)
Evaluate
Assess
Treat
The medical abbreviation for nothing by mouth
What is "NPO"?