Key Terms
Hurting someone on purpose or threatening their safety. Can affect the resident’s mental or physical health.
What is abuse
Person, often elderly, living in a long-term care facility.
What is a resident?
The person who provides personal care for residents. This person is under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
What is a nursing assistant (NA)?
Provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care. Care is provided for residents in need of help with activities of daily living.
What is a facility?
List things a nursing assistant can do promote dignity and respect.
What is Maintain and protect basic human rights of the resident 2. Respect each resident’s individuality 3. Honor and value the resident’s input 4. knock on the resident’s door and request permission to enter before entering 5. address residents with the name or pronoun of resident’s choice 6. encouraging and assisting residents to dress in their own clothes, rather than hospital-type gowns 7. place labels on the resident’s clothing where it is not easily seen 8. avoid bibs or clothing protectors 9. sit rather than stand over resident while assisting to eat talk to the resident rather than other staff while assisting with meals 10. assist the resident’s to the bathroom during meal times if requested 11. do not use the term “feeders” or “walkers” 12. provide residents with privacy during care, such as when using the bathroom 13. keep the resident’s urinary catheter bags covered do not restrict the use of common areas by a resident unless restricted by care plan.
A standard of behavior for what is right or wrong.
What is ethics
Nursing Assistant on the Registry (Minnesota)
What is NA/R?
A person that is receiving care from healthcare workers. The care is for physical and/or emotional illness.
What is a patient?
Duties and responsibilities involved in a work position.
What is a job description?
must be posted in an easily seen area of the care facility and must be posted in an easily seen area of the care facility
What is the Bill of Rights
A type of advanced directive. A written, legal document that lists what medical treatments you would or would not want to be used to keep yourself alive. Also includes other decisions such as pain management tor organ donation
What is a living will?
Not sharing spoken and/or written words about a resident.
What is confidential?
Working and helping each other to reach a shared goal.
What is team work?
A person appointed by the client to make decisions should the client be unable to do so due to illness or incapacitation.
What is a durable power of attorney?
The person who handles complaints between a resident and the facility provides services to facilities to assists residents and their families to resolve conflicts.
What is the State Ombudsman
Supportive care centered on the resident. The resident makes their own choices over their daily lives.
What is Person Centered Care?
When the resident is ignored and doesn’t get proper care from the facility, its employees or service providers. The lack of proper care causes physical harm, pain, mutual anguish, or emotional distress.
What is neglect?
Rules of polite, courteous, kind, and respectful actions.
What is etiquette?
A state and federal law that protects the rights of residents in a long term care facility or community.
What is the bill of rights?
Federal law that sets the standards for NA training and registration. It identifies skills and establishes minimum requirements.
What is The Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
The person who handles complaints between a resident and the nursing home.
What is ombudsman?
A brain injury that impairs the expression and understanding of language. The injury also affects reading and writing.
What is aphasia?
Taking advantage of a resident for personal gain.
What is exploitation?
A legal document that makes a persons wishes known regarding life support issues. The document is used in the event the person is unable to speak for him/herself.
What is advanced directives?
Promotes smaller, home-like settings 2. Higher quality of life 3. Individuality 4. Privacy 5. Choice 6. Dignity 7. Respect 8. A home-like atmosphere 9. Independence.
What is person centered care