Resident Rights
Residents have the right to make choices about their schedules, activities, and health care.
What are resident's rights?
Before transferring a resident, you should know this.
What is their transfer status and assistance level?
The single most effective way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is hand hygiene?
Any allegation of abuse must be reported immediately and thoroughly investigated.
What is the facility's responsibility for abuse prevention and reporting?
This assessment drives the resident's comprehensive care plan.
What is the MDS (Minimum Data Set)?
Staff must knock, announce themselves, and obtain permission before entering a resident's room whenever possible.
What is respecting privacy and dignity?
A resident forgets to use the call light and frequently tries to get up alone.
What is a fall risk?
CMS F-tag associated with Infection Prevention and Control.
What is F880?
In Oregon, nursing-facility employees and inviduals who contract to provide services in a nursing facility are considered this when it comes to suspected resident abuse.
What are mandatory reporters?
Care plans should reflect this regarding every resident.
What are the resident's needs, goals, preferences, and interventions?
This document identifies an individual's choices regarding life-sustaining treatment and end-of-life care.
What is an advance directive (or POLST)?
"What would you do if a resident's condition changed?"
What is report it immediately to the nurse?
Staff should use these precautions with every resident regardless of diagnosis.
What are Standard Precautions?
A staff member hears another employee verbally threatening a resident.
What is a situation that requires immediate reporting of an alleged violation?
If it wasn't documented, surveyors may determine this.
What is "it didn't happen"? (Documentation supports compliance and care delivery.)
ALL grievances are investigated and reported we have to maintain this file for a minimum of how many years?
What is 3 years?
"What would you do if a resident fell?"
What is stay with the resident, call for help, and notify the nurse?
Surveyors frequently observe this staff behavior when citing infection control deficiencies.
What is failure to perform hand hygiene between resident contacts?
You only suspect abuse but are not completely sure.
What should you do? Report it immediately.
Surveyors may stop any employee in the hallway and ask about this resident-specific information.
What are the resident's care needs, preferences, and safety interventions?
this document allows the staff to provide cares to patients and is good through the patients time at Avamere
What is a consent to treat?
These specific vital signs need to be done after a fall.
What are orthostatic BP's?
When caring for a resident with known or suspected C. Diff., this method of hand hygiene is required rather than relying solely on alcohol-based hand rub.
What is washing with soap and water?
This F-tag protects residents from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
What is F600?
A surveyor asks, "How do you know what care a resident needs?"
What is the care plan, Kardex/assignment sheet, and report from staff?