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Hospice is for a resident with this amount of estimated time to live.
What is 6 months?
Ethics are a knowledge of these two.
What are right and wrong?
OBRA was passed in response to what?
What are reports of abuse and poor care of long-term care residents.
This is the amount of hours OBRA requires for nurse aid training.
What is 75 hours?
Purposefully causing any kind of pain to someone is called what?
What is abuse?
Leaning forward to listen to someone talk is an example of this.
What is non-verbal or positive non-verbal communication?
Nursing assistants should use this to translate messages when the resident speaks a different language than the nursing assistant.
What is and interpreter?
The part of the word that gives it meaning is this.
What is the root of the word?
This is military time for 7:16 PM
What is 1916?
Use the face of this to describe the position of objects to a visually impaired person.
What is an imaginary clock?
The NA should find out this when responding to an angry resident.
What is find out the cause?
Combative behavior can be caused by these.
What is disease or medication?
Encouraging a resident to play with or craft with other residents is an example of what kind of wellness?
The need to be freed from pain is an example of what kind of need?
What is a physical need?
This is at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What is self-actualization?
List three signs of a systemic infection.
Answers include: chills, fever, mental confusion, rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, rapid respiratory rate, fatigue
Studying various cultures with the goal of providing specific care to each is called this.
What is trans-cultural nursing?
This is the amount of links in the chain of infection that must be broken to achieve a prevention of infection.
What is one?
Oral tissue is an example of this.
What are mucous membranes?
An uninfected person who is sick is called this, in the chain of infection.
What is a susceptible host?
Extreme thirst could be a sign of this.
What is shock?
When blood seeps through a bandage being used to hold pressure a nursing assistant should do this.
What is use a new bandage on top of the old one?
Proper grooming is an example of this.
What is professionalism?
Each scale should be balanced at this, when weighing a resident.
What is zero?
Using a tape measure can be useful when measuring this.
What is the height of the resident who cannot get out of bed?