What is the term for a device used to take the place of a missing body part?
Prosthesis
When a resident has left-sided weakness, what part of a sweater is put on first?
Left sleeve
The resident offers a nurse aide a twenty dollar bill as a thank you for all that the nurse aide has done. The nurse aide SHOULD:
Politely refuse the money.
When helping a resident who is recovering from a stroke to walk, the nurse aide should assist:
On the resident's weak side
It is appropriate for a nurse aide to share information regarding a resident's status with:
The staff on the next shift
The role of the ombudsman is to:
Work with the nursing home to protect resident's rights.
A nurse aide MUST wear gloves when:
Doing Peri-Care
Proper uses of waist restraints requires that the nurse aide:
Watch for skin irritation
The purpose of padding side rails on the resident's bed is to :
Protect resident from injury
When getting ready to dress a resident, the yourself aide should?
Give the client a choice of what to wear
What is the process of restoring a disable client to the highest level of functioning?
The LAST sense a dying client will lose is:
Hearing
The nurse aide is in the employee dinning room. A group of nurses aides are eating lunch together and begin discussing how rude a certain resident was acting. The nurse and SHOULD:
Suggest that this is not the place to discuss the resident.
The Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrust) is used for a client who has:
A blocked airway
The nurse aide notices that a resident's mail has been delivered to the client's room.The nurse aide SHOULD:
Give the resident the unopened mail and offer help as needed.
The nurse aide finds a conscious client lying on the bathroom floor. The FIRST thing the nurse aide should do is:
To prevent dehydration of the client, the nurse aide SHOULD:
Offer fluids frequently while the client is awake.
What does the following mean?
"Resident Martha May is NPO until lunch time"
Resident Martha May should not eat or drink nothing by the mouth until lunch time.
To avoid pulling the catheter when turning a male client, the catheter tube must be tapped to the client's :
Upper thigh
All of the following situations are examples of abuse or neglect except?
A) Restraining a resident according to a physicians order
B)leaving the resident in a wet and soiled bed
Restraining a resident according to a physicians order
What does the following mean?
" Take vital signs bid"
"Offer the resident a snack tid"
Off the resident a snack three times a day.
The resident has stated she has has a BM.
What does BM stand for?
Bowel movement
Which of the following is a correct measurement of urinary output?
300cc
If a resident is sitting in a chair in his room masturbating, the nurse aide SHOULD:
Leave the client alone and provide privacy.