Basic Nursing Skills
Activities of Daily Living
Member of the Health Care Team
Emotional and Mental Health Needs
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100
Something the nurse aide should remember to do when operating a manual bed.
What is: fold cranks under the bed?
100
How often a nurse aide should give an unconscious client oral hygiene.
What is: at least every 2 hours.
100
The main purpose of continuing education for the nurse aide.
What is:client safety?
100
True or false. Nursing assistants should report their conclusions about the cause of the behavior that they see.
What is: False? Nursing assistants should only report the facts of their observations, including what they saw or heard, how long the behavior lasted, and how frequently it occurred.
100
The reason incident reports are written.
What is: to determine patterns and trends?
200
The nursing care plan states, “Transfer with mechanical lift.” However, the client is very agitated. This is what the nurse aid should do to transfer the client.
What is: get assistance to move the client?
200
What the nurse aide should do when giving a back rub.
What is: use circular motion over bony areas?
200
The MOST important information the nurse aide needs from the nurse when transferring a client to a different unit.
What is: name and room number?
200
A lack of interest in activities
What is: apathy? This is a common symptom of clinical depression.
200
Cheyne-Stokes respirations
What is: a common sign of approaching death with alternating periods of slow, irregular respirations and rapid, shallow respirations?
300
The nurse aide should do this FIRST when changing an ostomy bag.
What is:explain procedure to client?
300
The position the nurse aide should place an unconscious person when giving oral care.
What is: Lateral?
300
The nurse aide gave a client the wrong diet. The first thing the nurse aide should do after realizing the error.
What is: Report the error immediately to the nurse?
300
What the nursing assistant should do if a confused and disoriented client is begging to go home.
What is: ask the client to tell the nurse aide about his/her home?
300
The reason hospital corners are used in making a resident's bed.
What is: to help keep the flat sheet smooth? This helps prevent a resident's feet from being restricted by or tangled in linen when getting in and out of bed.
400
The FIRST thing a nurse aide should do when finding an unresponsive client.
What is: Call for help?
400
How pressure sores can be prevented.
What is: by turning or repositioning the client every two hours?
400
The person the nurse aide should speak to FIRST if they are concerned about client care.
What is: the nurse in charge?
400
If not actively managed, this can affect job satisfaction and emotional and physical health. It can also impact the the workplace environment by decreasing productivity and increasing turnover.
What is: Compassion fatigue?
400
Identified in OBRA law that describe how residents must be treated while living in a facility.
What is: Residents' Rights
500
What the nurse aide should do if a client has hand tremors.
What is: assist the client with the activity of daily living as needed.
500
A resident is recovering from a stroke and has weakness on their left side. They call you to help them put on a sweater. This is the side from which the nursing aid should offer assistance.
What is: The resident’s left side. Assisting on the side that is the weakest offers support and helps the resident to keep their balance.
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