Providing Care
for Residents
for Residents
This word means keeping bodies clean and healthy.
What is hygiene?
What is the first sign of a problem with the skin?
Redness in color.
What is a weakness of muscles in the feet and ankles that causes problems with the ability to flex the ankles and walk normally.
What is foot drop?
How many times per day should a resident receive help with oral care?
At least twice a day.
This position allows a resident to be flat on their back.
What is supine?
This means caring for nails and hair and other parts of the body.
What is grooming?
These areas of the body are where the bone lies close to the skin.
What are bony prominences?
These may be placed underneath residents who cannot help with turning, lifting, or moving up in bed.
What are draw sheets?
What are dentures?
Artificial teeth.
This position has a resident lying on either side.
What is lateral?
True or False? Promoting independence is an important part of giving care to residents.
True.
This word means rubbing or friction that results from the skin moving one way and the bone underneath it staying in a fixed position or moving in the opposite direction.
What is shearing?
What helps keep the hand or fingers stay in a normal, natural position?
What are handrolls?
An NA should wear gloves when providing oral care. True or false?
True.
This position is lying on the stomach.
What is prone?
An NA should knock and wait for permission to enter the resident's room. True or False?
True.
These kinds of injuries come from skin deteriorating and shearing.
What are pressure injuries?
This is a device that supports and helps align a limb and improve its functioning.
What is an orthotic device or orthosis?
What is aspiration?
Inhaling food, fluid, or foreign material into the lungs.
This position has the resident in a semi-sitting position.
What is Fowler's?
Pressure points.
A person in this position will be lying on their right or left side.
What is the lateral position?
These devices are used to keep the bed covers from resting on a resident's legs and feet.
What are bed cradles?
What position should a resident be in when an NA is providing oral care?
Upright.
This position has residents on their left side with one leg drawn up.
What is Sims' position?