The Healthcare System
The Role of the CNA
Resident's Rights
Abuse and neglect
Wildcard
100

federal health insurance program for people that are 65 and older

What is Medicare? 

100

set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety 

What are laws? 

100

specifies how residents must be treated while living in a facility 

What are residents' rights?

100
any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person's body

What is physical abuse? 

100

a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that they will be harmed

What is assault? 

200

medical assistance program for those how have a low income, as well as for people with disabilities 

What is Medicaid? 

200
list some of the tasks that the CNA might complete

Bathing patients, helping with elimination, range of motion exercises, transferring patients, measuring vital signs, assisting with meals, helping residents dress and undress, making and changing meals, keeping resident's areas clean and neat, caring for supplies and equipment

200

passed in 1987, ensures that facilities are safe and sets minimum standards for long term care facilities

What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?

200

emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person

What is psychological abuse? 

200

the intentional touching of a person without their consent 

What is battery? 

300

a course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs

What is a policy? 

300

defines the tasks that the healthcare worker is legally allowed to do according to state or federal laws

What is the scope of practice? 

300

the process by which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about their health care

What is informed consent? 

300

nonconsensual sexual contact of any type

What is sexual abuse? 

300

an unlawful restraint that affect's a person's freedom of movement

What is false imprisonment? 

400

a method, or way of doing things

What is a procedure? 

400

describes the line of authority and helps to make sure that residents get proper health care

What is the chain of command? 

400

a patient right that is protected by providing the patient with their unopened mail, knocking on the door before entering, and protecting their health information 

What is the right to privacy and confidentiality?

400

improper or illegal use of a person's money, possession, property, or other assets 

What is financial abuse? 
400

actions or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting in an unintended injury 

What is negligence? 

500

the knowledge of right and wrong

What are ethics?

500

who gives the CNA guidance and direction on the plan of care, who the CNA reports to within the facility

Who is the Registered Nurse (RN)? 

500

gives residents the right to join resident council, gives them the right to vote, and participate in activities inside and outside the facility

What is the right to make independent choices?

500

the use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person

What is verbal abuse? 
500

occurs when a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill

What is malpractice? 

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