Health Care Team
Terms/Definitions
Communication
Care Plan/Charting
Legal Responsibilities
100

What are the ADLs?

What are the Activities of Daily Living which are activities that are performed in one's daily basis?

100

What is ambulation?

What is the process of walking?

100

What is aphasia?

What is a language difficulty due to brain damage?

100

What is the purpose of the care plan?

What is a plan that tells the staff how to take care of patients individual needs o reach their fullest potential?

100

What does DNR stand for?

What is Do Not Resuscitate?

200

Who are the most important members of the team?

Who are the resident and their families?

200

What is Rehabilitation?

What is the restoration of ill or injured residents so they'll be able to help themselves at their highest potential?

200

If you are trying to get Mr. Manny to go to lunch and he has a hearing difficulty how should you speak to him?

What is speaking in a low voice?

200

Who develops the care plan?

What is all the staff involved, the family of the resident, and the resident?

200

What is the difference between malpractice, neglect, and negligence?

What is the malpractice is improper treatment resulting in the injury of resident, neglect is the probable danger of your actions, and negligence is a failure to perform in an acceptable health care manner?

300

The member of the nursing team whose duties are to provide and assist with ADL's, provide bedside care under the supervision of the charge nurse, make accurate observations to report to charge nurse, and help meet the residents' emotional needs?

Who is the Certified Nuse Assistant (CNA)?

300

What is Abandonment?

What is leaving the resident unattended?

300

What are some barriers to communications?

What is changing the subject, age, culture, religion, belittling people, seeming too busy, interrupting, and using words that sound alike but have different meanings?

300

What are the purposes of Charting?

What is to communicate with other staff, document the delivery of care to meet residents needs, and for insurance purposes/legal reasons?

300

What is DPOA and explain it?

What is the Durable Power of Attorney and it's a document that permits a person to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care if the person is unable to make decisions?

400

The member of the nursing team whose duties are to plan, assign, and evaluate nursing care, give medication, start IV's, assist with resident care, takes and records physician's telephone or verbal orders, perform most treatments, and administers tube feeding?

Who is the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)?

400

What is the difference between assault and battery?

What is assault being a threat or attempt to injure another in an unlawful manner, and battery being an unlawful application of force to a person?

400

If a resident is visually impaired then how should you better communicate with them?

What is encouraging the use of eyeglasses, use verbal communication, use touch, identify yourself, or reduce background noise?

400

What is an example of charting objectively?

What is 'Found Mrs. Smith seated on the floor beside bed'?

400

What are some physical signs of Abuse?

What are burns, bruises on upper arms or trunk of body, broken eyeglasses, cuts, welts, black eyes, or anything that seems suspicious?

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