The Health Care System
The person that is always the focus of the health care team's efforts.
What is the patient/resident?
CDC
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Is communication that happens without words.
What is nonverbal communication?
A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he will be harmed.
What is assault?
1800
What is 6:00pm?
Provides care for people who are unable to care for themselves at home but who do not need to be hospitalized.
What is a long-term facility?
Don and doffing
What is putting on and removing PPE?
A question that cannot be answered with a "yes or no".
What is an open-ended question?
Improper or illegal use of a person's money, possessions, property, or other assets.
What is financial abuse?
DNR
What is Do Not Resuscitate?
Responsible for the quality of the nursing care provided in the facility.
Who is the Director of Nursing.?
The most important thing NAs can do to prevent the spread of disease.
What is handwashing ?
The spoken exchange of information between health care team members.
What is reporting?
The failure to provide necessary care or services, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.
What is neglect?
The serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning and communicating.
What is dementia?
A certified health care worker who performs assisted nursing tasks and gives personal care to patients.
Who is a nursing assistant?
Is the uninfected person who could become ill in the Chain of Infection.
What is a susceptible host/link 6?
Factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell and touch.
What is objective data?
The knowledge of right and wrong; standards of conduct.
What are ethics?
Means treating blood and other body fluids, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes as if they were infected.
What are Standard Precautions?
A federally funded and state-regulated plan designed to help people with low incomes to pay for health care.
What is Medicaid?
The procedure that best destroys all bacteria.
What is sterilization?
Rolling eyes, crossing arms, tapping feet and pointing at someone while speaking are examples are?
What are examples of negative nonverbal communication?
A law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training, staffing requirements, and information on rights for residents.
What is OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)?
Is unease or worry, often about a situation or condition.
What is anxiety?