HEALTH CARE AGENCIES
This type of agency provides emergency care, surgery, and highly needed nursing care.
Answer: What is a hospital?
This team focuses on the person’s total care.
Answer: What is the interdisciplinary health care team?
This pattern focuses on tasks and jobs; each team member has specific tasks.
Answer: What is functional nursing?
This law sets minimum standards for nursing centers and applies to all 50 states.
Answer: What is OBRA (1987)?
Minimum number of instruction hours required by NATCEP.
Answer: What is 75 hours?
This agency focuses on care and rehabilitation and may be part of a hospital or nursing center.
Answer: What is rehabilitation or sub‑acute care?
This nurse assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates care.
Answer: Who is the RN?
This pattern is led by an RN who decides the amount and kind of care each person needs.
Answer: What is team nursing?
This includes the right to make decisions about care, including benefits, risks, and refusal.
Answer: What is informed consent?
Minimum number of supervised practical training hours required.
Answer: What is 16 hours?
This center provides care for people who cannot care for themselves at home.
Answer: What is a long‑term care center?
This nurse assists the RN with acutely ill and chronically stable patients.
Answer: Who is the LPN/LVN?
In this pattern, one RN is responsible for the person’s total care.
Answer: What is primary nursing?
This document states a person’s wishes about end‑of‑life care.
Answer: What is a living will?
This registry lists CNA name, address, birth date, date passed, and any findings of abuse or neglect.
Answer: What is the state nurse aide registry?
This residence provides housing, personal care, social activities, and some health care.
Answer: What is assisted living?
The main goal of the health team.
Answer: What is providing quality care?
This pattern coordinates care for specific persons and focuses on discharge planning.
Answer: What is case management?
This person supports and promotes the needs and interests of residents.
Answer: Who is the ombudsman?
To work in another state, a CNA must be current, competent, and have these paid.
Answer: What are fees?
This agency provides comfort and quality of life for dying persons and their families.
Answer: What is hospice?
This member provides most hands‑on care and reports observations to the nurse.
Answer: Who is the CNA?
This pattern ensures continuity of care from admission through discharge. Answer: What is case management? This pattern ensures continuity of care from admission through discharge.
Answer: What is case management?
Residents have the right to be free from these three things.
Answer: What are abuse, neglect, and mistreatment?
These two tests must be passed to become a CNA.
Answer: What are the written test and skills test?