Vocabulary
Legal Terms
Infection
The Nursing Assistant
ER Care & First Aid
100

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

What is arteries?

100

The patient complains that the CNA is being too rough during a bath, The CNA holds up her fist and threatens, "You want to know what feels like?

What is assault?

100

A person who carries a pathogen, usually without signs or symptoms of disease, but who can still spread disease. 

What is the carrier?

100

Long-term or long- lasting.

What is chronic?

100

Sudden stopping/cessation of the heartbeat

What is a cardiac arrest?

200

The part of the blood pressure measurement when the heart contracts

What is the systolic measurement?

200

The CNA fails to lock the wheels on the wheelchair and the resident falls. 

What is a neglect?

200

CDC

What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention?

200

Is a licensed nurse who provides skilled nursing care and gives treatment and medications

What is a licensed practical nurse (LPN)?

200

A condition in which blood flow to the heart is blocked and muscle cells die. 

What is a MI/heart attack?

300

Heart rate of 56

What is bradycardia?

300

The resident tells the CNA that she is worthless and ugly. The CNA says " Oh really?!See how worthless I am, "and grabs the resident's clothes and lifts him out of the chair. 

What is battery?

300

Means all microorganisms are destroyed, including those that form spores

What is sterilization?

300

The serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning communicating. 

What is dementia?

300

Care given to an injured person by the first people to respond to an emergency.

What is first aid?

400

The pulse take is taken at the  ____________________artery

What is radial pulse?

400

The CNA insists that a patient bathe right NOW because it is on the schedule, and she has 5 more baths this morning

What is Ignoring Patents Rights/

400

Federal law requiring that healthcare facilities protect employees from bloodborne health hazards.

What is the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard?

400

24-hour skilled care provided in long-term care facility for people with ongoing conditions

What is long-term care?

400

Bleeding; blood loss

What is a hemorrhage? 

500

A respiratory secretions-also known as phlegm. 

What is sputum?

500

Professorial misconduct that results in damage or injury to a person

What is malpractice?

500

An abbreviation for a bacteria that have developed resistance to the antibiotic methicillin or other antibiotics

What is MRSA?

500

Daily personal care tasks

What are ADLs (Activates of Daily Living))?

500

Low blood sugar

What is hypoglycemia?

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