Back to the Basics
This is where you are allowed to place clean linen when preparing to make a bed.
What is a chair or table at the bedside?
Before bathing a resident, the NA must always do this FIRST.
What is test the water temparture?
This is how many milliliters is in an 8 oz glass.
What is 240?
This is how often we should offer to toilet or to check and change our residents.
What is every two hours.
Bed linen and clothing must be changed when they are soiled to prevent this.
What is skin breakdown/infection.
When applying an elastic stocking, the Nursing Assistant knows that they should be applied at this time of the day.
What is in the morning before the resident gets out of bed?
This is the term used for the type of bath given on days when a full bath is not scheduled.
What is partial bath?
What are 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%?
This is a device used to collect urine that is placed inside the toilet beneath the toilet seat.
This is a type of advanced directive that states who can make medical and/or financial decisions for a person if they cannot make them for themselves.
What is Durable Power of Attorney?
This is the name of the receptacle you would place items contaminated with blood or body fluids.
What is a biohazard container (or red bag).
This item is used to transport residents to/from the shower room and staff must cover the resident with a bath blanket during tranport.
What is shower chair/shower bed?
These are the three consistencies of thickened liquids a resident may be ordered who has swallowing difficulty.
What is nectar, honey, and pudding?
This is a type of pan used for elimination while the resident is in bed and the handle is always pointed toward the foot of the bed.
What is a fracture pan?
If residents have had food or drink recently, the NA cannot obtain an oral temperature for this length of time.
What is 10-20 minutes?
When turning or pulling a resident up in the bed, the NA uses this to prevent shearing the resident's skin.
What is a draw sheet?
When giving a bed bath, this is when the water in the bath basin must be changed.
What is when it is too soapy, dirty or cold?
A resident on continuous tube feedings must have the head of bed elevated at what angle?
What is 30-45 degrees?
This is how frequently catheter care must be performed.
What is once per shift?
MRSA in urine would require this type of transmission based precaution.
When collecting a 24 hour urine sample for a resident, this is what is done with the first voided urine.
What is discard it?
Water temperature should not exceed this when bathing a resident.
What is 105 degrees?
This is the color bracelet a resident would be expected to wear if he were ordered nectar liquids.
What is pink?
When providing perineal care, this is the direction you must always wipe.
What is front to back?
This is an example of a disease that would require Airborne transmission-based precautions and must be in special isolation rooms with controlled flow of air.
What is Tuberculosis?