Definition: Protecting, supporting and intervening on behalf of the individual's rights and interests.
What is advocacy?
100
Fractures of the upper arm, hand, ankle, leg, pelvis, spine, hip, forearm.
What are common injuries from a fall?
100
Confusion, impaired balance, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting.
What are the most common adverse effects of medications in older adults?
100
Discrimination against people of increasing age.
What is Ageism?
100
Required each nursing home to care for its residents in a manner that promotes and enhances the quality of life of each resident, ensuring dignity, choice, and self-determination.
What is The Resident's Bill of Rights?
200
The nurse stands up for older women who were not taught to be assertive and stand up for themselves.
What is advocacy for cultural and ethnic diversity and sensitivity?
200
Inability to judge height of curbs or stairs; and position and speed of motor vehicles.
What is diminished peripheral vision and changes to depth perception?
200
Cognitive and sensory changes, knowledge deficits, financial concerns, and drug testing methodology.
What are risk factors for adverse drug reactions in older adults?
200
When older patients receive less information than younger patients on resources, health and illness management.
What is limited access to care?
200
Present grievances to staff or any other person, without fear of reprisal and with prompt efforts by the facility to resolve grievances.
What is The Right to Complain?
300
Involves identifying and understanding one's own cultural identity.
What is self-awareness?
300
Urinary stasis and incomplete emptying of bladder.
What is a cause of urinary catheter-related bacteria?
300
Decreased acid secretion results in increased gastric pH.
What is decreased drug absorption?
300
Demonstrating ideas that equate worth with productivity .
What is an element of Ageism?
300
Resident's health has improved and he/she no longer requires nursing home care; discharging/transferring resident from facility to protect the health and safety of other residents/staff.
What is The Rights During Transfers and Discharges?
400
Groups the nurse must advocate for.
What is clients, family members, themselves, profession, and subordinates.
400
Constipation, pneumonia, pressure ulcers, and deconditioning.
What are hazards of bed rest?
400
Thinking OTC medications are not "real drugs" because you don't have to have a prescription.
What is knowledge deficit related to medications?
400
Fact or Myth: Older adults barely cope with the inevitable declines associated with aging.
What is a myth related to older adults.
400
Also known as The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987.
What is The Resident's Bill of Rights?
500
Situations that require advocacy for the patient, and nurses are mandated to do something about.
What is lack of financial resources, abuse, malnutrition, neglect, or mistreatment.
500
A patient lies in horizontal position for a 2 weeks, and they lose plasma volume from increased urinary output.