Intro to healthcare
Persons living in nursing centers.
What are residents?
Hours of instruction required to complete CNA course.
What is 100 hours?
Calling a resident by his/her name is not a proper way to.
What is identifying a patient?
Proper ratio if you are starting CPR.
What is 30:2?
A federal organization supervising safety in the workplace.
What is OSHA?
An illness that is sudden from which a person is expected to recover.
What is an acute illness?
The federal law act that's purpose is to improve the quality of life in nursing center residents and sets the requirements for competency evaluation involving written and skills tests for CNA's.
What is OBRA?
Proper way to relieve a foreign object in a pregnant woman, infant, or obese person.
What are chest thrusts?
Position to place a patient having a seizure after protecting head.
What is on the patient's side?
Emergency care given to an ill or injured person before help arrives.
What is first aid?
A federal health insurance program for persons 65 years of age or older.
What is Medicare?
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation.
What is delegation?
A reference to check the safety of a hazardous material before using it.
What is MSDS?
Ratio for two-person CPR on an infant.
What is 15:2?
Acronym for determining if a patient is having a stroke.
What is FAST?
The goal of ___ is to return persons to the highest possible level of physical and mental functioning.
What is rehabilitation?
A document that explains your employer and agencies expectations.
What is job description?
The first step you take when you find a fire in a resident's room.
What is rescue?
A life-threatening sensitivity to an antigen that may include laryngeal edema and dyspnea.
What is anaphylactic shock?
When blood flow decreases and tissues receive less blood.
What is constriction?
A healthcare agency or program for persons who are dying.
What is hospice?
A procedure, function, activity or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does not require an RN's professional judgment or knowledge.
What is a nursing task?
The three things needed to start a fire.
What are fuel, heat, and oxygen?
Applying pressure to the ____ of person who is hemorrhaging if direct pressure does not stop it.
What is the artery above the bleeding site?
When blood flow increases causing blood vessels to expand.
What is dilation?