Health Care Systems
What act improved conditions for people in long term care facilities?
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1987 (OBRA).
What document allows a person to make their wishes regarding healthcare known to family members and healthcare workers in case they are no longer able to?
Advance Directive.
what were early Nursing Assistant called?
Aides
What gives our skin, hair and nails its pigmentation?
What is one way heat is lost from the body?
Sweating.
A federally funded and state regulated plan designed to help people with low income to pay for healthcare?
Medicaid
What influences a person values?
Culture/Heritage
What important roles does a NA play?
Observer/Communicator
The epidermis, dermis, and sebum in which system?
What functions is regulated automatically by the body?
Heart rate, temp and respiration rate.
A federally funded insurance plan by Social Security under the administration of the center for the Medicare and Medicaid Services?
Medicare
What would be considered elder abuse?
-Larceny
-Sexual Abuse
- Failure to provide food, water, care, and medications.
-involuntary confinement
What are the board of nursing five rights?
Right Person
Right Task
Right Circumstances
Right Supervision
Right Directions
A yellow discoloration of the skin and the white of eyes?
Jaundice.
What is measured when taking a person BP?
What does holistic focus on?
Care of the whole patient.
Allows a person to give instructions about what medical treatments they would or would not want to be done in effort to prolong their life.
Living will.
Who was made nursing a profession?
Florence Nightingale.
Name the 4 fowlers?
Supine, Prone, Lateral and Fowlers
What is low BP called?
Hypotension.
Define OSHA?
Ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
What is HIPPA?
HIPAA is a federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed.
Yes.
Where is the bronchiole located?
Lungs
What vital sign can you do without patient consent?
Respiration Rate.