Health Care System
Care of the whole person, physically and emotionally.
What is Holistic?
Insurance that is purchased at group rates by an employer for people to participate in and the employee may pay for part of the coverage.
What is Group Insurance?
Group of laws that require all nursing assistants in long term care to complete specific training and pass a test with a minimm of 75 hours.
Who is OBRA?
To authorize another person to perform a task on your behalf.
What is delegation?
HIV, HCV, HBV, Malaria
What are some bloodborne pathogens?
The primary focus of the healthcare teams' efforts.
What is the patient or resident?
Insurance plan that is federally funded by Social Security and which all people aged 65 years and older and some disabled people are eligible to participate in.
What is Medicare?
What is the official record, maintained by the state, of people who have successfully completed the NA training program called? It contains all contact information, dob, date test was passed and reported resident abuse or neglect.
What is the Registry?
The range of tasks that a nursing assistant is legally permitted to do.
What is Scope of practice?
Other Potential' Infectious Materials
What does the acrynym OPIM stand for?
A person who is being cared for in their home.
What is a client?
A Federally funded and state regulated insurance plan designed to help people with low incomes to pay for health care.
What is Medicaid?
Regular in-service education and performance review mandated by OBRA in which a facility must provide a minimum of 12 hours of training to nursing assistants each year.
What is continuing education?
Organization that imposes laws on businesses to educate and protect them from on the job hazards.
Who is OSHA?
Provides care for people who are dying and their families.
What is Hospice?
A report that focuses on the degree of assistance a resident of a long term care facility needs and is required for reimbursement of expenses from Medicare.
What is a Minimum Data Set?
The principle by which one state recognizes the validity of a license or certification granted by another state.
What is reciprocity?
Infectious microorganisms in blood that can cause disease in humans.
What is a bloodborne pathogen?
Primary government agency that is responsible for protecting this nation's health.
What is the DHHS (Department of Health & Human Services?
A Medicare reimbursement system that helps control the increasing health care costs and bases reimbursement payment to providers under this system according to the diagnosis.
What are Diagnosis-related-Groups?
Each member of the nursing team carries out the same ssigned task for all patients or residents.
What is functional nursing?
To come into contact with infected person's blood, body fluid, or other infectious material in a way such that the pathogen enters the body through the mucous membranes or non-intact skin.
What is bloodborne transmission?
An independent, nonprofit organization who helps ensure that facilities provide quality health care and they also set national standards. They also have a Gold Seal of Approval which is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality.
What is the Joint Commission?
A specific plan of care for each resident developed by the nursing team.
What is a nursing care plan?
An organization that improves the quality of life for people who live in long-term care facilities and makes sure the residents receive a certain standard of care.
What is OBRA?
What is the nursing process?
An inspection of a nursing home carried out by the government to ensure that care is being provided according to standards and regulations.
What is a Survey?
The step in the Nursing process that the team checks the effectiveness of the nursing care plan and revises it as necessary.
What is the Evaluation step?
The official recognition that an organization meets certain standards of quality.
What is Accreditation?
The nursing process step where the nurse gathers information about the resident specific to their needs.
What is the Assessment process?