Patients' Rights
This person has the legal right to act on the patient's behalf when he/she cannot do so for himself.
What is a Representative?
This is the name of the document that describes what the organization expects you to do while at work.
What is Job Description?
The proper way to lift a heavy item.
Back straight & knees bent
P.A.S.S stands for
Pull
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep
This is the most effective method of preventing the spread of infection.
What is hand hygiene (hand washing)?
This document is issued by the American Hospital Association and explains the person's rights and expectations during a hospital stay.
What is The Patient Care Partnership: Understanding Expectations, Rights, & Responsibilities?
This federal law sets minimum requirements for nursing assistant training and evaluation.
What is OBRA?
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
The direction your fingertips should be facing when holding onto a patient's gait belt.
Upward position
The proper name for what you should do to assist someone who is choking
Abdominal Thrusts
These precautions are utilized when caring for all patients.
What is standard precautions?
You are attempting to feed a patient lunch and the patient is refusing to eat. This is your next action.
What is "tell the nurse?"
This person delegates nursing tasks to you and supervises your work?
What is a nurse?
The name of the position when a patient is laying flat on their back
Supine
Two appropriate patient identifiers
name & dob
This term is utilized to describe diseases that are caused by pathogens that spread easily.
What is Communicable Diseases?
Every person deserves dignity & respect. When speaking, address the patient by stating ________.
What is his/her title and last name?
This state law regulates what nursing assistants are allowed to do.
What is the Nursing Practice Act?
3 things to ensure prior to assisting a patient into a wheelchair
Wheels locked, foot pedals moved back, patient has nonskid socks/shoes on
Two steps to take when ensuring wheelchair safety
Wheels are locked
Move footplates out of the way
When removing PPE to exit a patient's room, this is the order in which the gown, gloves, and mask are removed.
What is remove gloves first, then the gown, and finally the mask?
This person supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person.
What is Ombudsman?
This nursing care model involves a group of staff, including RNs and CNAs to care for the patient.
What is team nursing?
Use of a mechanical lift.
The name of SCH's event reporting system
S.A.F.E
You are going to help a patient off of a bedpan. What PPE will you wear for this task?
What is gloves? (gown if expected splash)