This is how a resident should be positioned for eating.
What is sitting as upright as possible? (or 90 degrees).
A _________ catheter is inserted to drain urine in the bladder and could remain in the body for over 24 hours.
What is indwelling?
Placement of a meal tray usually occurs on this.
What is a bedside or overbed table?
Demonstrate adduction AND abduction.
What........are you doing.......????
A tube inserted into the mouth, through the esophagus and to the stomach is called this.
What is an orogastric tube?
Crohn's disease may result in this device which diverts stool from the bowel.
This is the squeezing (not relaxing) of the heart represented by a numerical value.
What is systolic?
For those who have diarrhea, this type of diet is best.
What is the BRAT diet?
This is the primary risk for unconscious residents.
What is aspiration?
This is the correct response to a nose bleed.
What is apply pressure to the bridge of the nose?
Information concerning the resident that is typically reported by the resident is this.
What is subjective information?
Tiny sacs within the lungs, where gas exchange occurs, are called this.
What are alveoli?
Maintaining eye contact, nodding and smiling is an example of this.
What is active listening?
This is the most important task a nursing assistant can do to prevent the spread of disease.
What is hand washing?
Information concerning the resident that is typically numerical in nature is this.
What is objective information?
This is when menopause occurs in women.
What is 12 months after their last period?
The place where a pathogen lives and multiplies is called this.
What is a reservoir? Know the chain of infection. pg 87.
Restraint-free care means this.
What is restraints are not kept or used for any reason?
IBS is an acronym for this GI condition.
What is irritable bowel syndrome?
List the two main things the male reproductive system produces.
What are sperm and testosterone?
These are the five stages of grieving IN ORDER.
What is 1. denial, 2. anger, 3. bargaining, 4. depression, 5. acceptance.
List four signs/symptoms of hyperthyroidism.
What are (could include): increased: metabolism, heartbeat, and sweating, weight loss, nervousness and irritability. Restlessness, high BP, enlarged thyroid (goiter), fatigue, trembling (esp. of hands).
List three age-related changes of the respiratory system.
Answers could include: 1. lung strength decreases, 2. alveoli become less elastic/decrease in number, 3. Airways become stiff and less elastic, 4. lung capacity decreases, 5. chest muscles become weaker, 6. cough reflex becomes less effective and cough becomes weaker, 7. oxygen in blood decreases, 8. decreased lung capacity causes voice to weaken.
What are the two types of involuntary muscles?
What are smooth and cardiac.
A histamine is released when this occurs.
What is an exposure to an allergen?