CNA Skills/Guidelines
Professional that often assists with bathing, feeding, and basic care in hospice.
What is Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)?
Meaning of patient neglect.
What is failing to meet a patient's basic needs, such as hygiene, pain relief, or attention?
The federal insurance program that most commonly pays for hospice care
What is Medicare?
Year in which 1/5 of Americans will be over the age of 65
What is 2030?
CNAs are just assistants and don't play a major role in patient care
What is false?
CNAs are essential caregivers and spend the most time with the patients
Infection-control practice that CNAs must follow at all times.
What is proper hand hygiene?
Common result of failing to reposition patients regularly.
What are pressure ulcers (bedsores)?
The primary mission of hospice care.
What is to provide comfort and dignity to patients with terminal illnesses?
Percentage of Medicare-certified hospices that have at least one deficiency
What is over 80%
Hospice care is only for the last few days of life
What is false?
Hospice can be provided for six months or longer if a doctor certifies that the patient is terminal.
Meaning of "ADL" in CNA care.
What is "activities of daily living?"
Times where neglect is most common in hospice programs.
What are weekends and holidays?
Tool used by CNAs to prevent falls when assisting patients who are a fall risk.
What is a gait belt?
The percentage of hospices in the U.S. that have become for-profit
What is roughly 75%?
All hospice care is provided in a facility like a nursing home
What is false?
Hospice can be delivered in private homes, assisted living, hospitals, or inpatient facilities.
Vital signs a CNA might be asked to record.
What are temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure?
Meaning of "profit over patients" in hospice care.
What is cutting measures, like low staffing, resulting in the compromising of quality care?
The life expectancy requirement for a patient to qualify for hospice
What is six months or less to live if the illness runs its normal course?
Amount of money Medicare spends annually on hospice care
What is $23 billion?
CNAs can legally administer medications in hospice care
What is false?
CNAs can assist with medication reminders but cannot administer them.
Maximum amount of time between repositioning patients to prevent pressure ulcers.
What is two hours?
Reason families feel misled by hospice services.
What is because agencies promise 24/7 support but often fail to follow through with quality care?
The difference between hospice and palliative care
What is palliative care can begin earlier and may include curative treatment and hospice is end-of-life care only?
Proportion of elders who experience some form of elder abuse
What is 1 in 10?
Hospice is a service, not a physical place
What is true?
Many people think of hospice as a physical place, but it is a service that can be provided anywhere, including the patients home.