A health care agency or program for persons who are dying
What is a hospice?
100
The care provided to maintain or restore health, improve function, or relieve symptoms
What is treatment?
100
The duty or obligation to perform some act or function
What is responsibility?
100
A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
What is an acute illness?
100
Medicare is for persons who
Who are persons 65 years of age or older?
200
An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment
What is a chronic illness?
200
Any person who has the legal right to act on the resident's behalf when he or she cannot do so for himself or herself
What is a representative?
200
Being responsible for one's actions and the actions of others who performed the delegated tasks; answering questions about and explaining one's actions and the actions of others
What is being accountable?
200
The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care; interdisciplinary health care team
What is a health team?
200
True or False: You can restrain a resident to provide care
What is false
300
An illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover
What is a terminal illness?
300
Separating a person from others against his or her will, keeping the person to a certain area, or keeping the person away from his or her room without consent
What is involuntary seclusion?
300
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation
What is a delegate?
300
A nursing care pattern; an RN is responsible for the person's total care
What is primary nursing?
300
You decide to refuse a task. What should you do?
What is communicate your concerns to the nurse
400
A nursing care pattern; a case manager (an RN) coordinates a person's care from admission through discharge and into the home or long term care setting
What is case management?
400
Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person?
What is an ombudsman?
400
A document that describes what the agency expects you to do
What is a job description?
400
A nursing care pattern focusing on tasks and jobs; each nursing team member has certain tasks and jobs to do
What is functional nursing?
400
True or False: The Patient Care Partnership: Understanding Expectations, Rights, and Responsibilities is a federal law.
What is false
500
A nursing care pattern; services are moved from departments to the bedside
What is patient-focused care?
500
When a resident must be cared for in a manner and in a setting that promotes dignity and respect for self
What is the right to quality of life?
500
Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does not require an RN's professional knowledge or judgment
What is a nursing task?
500
Those who provide nursing care- RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and nursing assistants?