This type of care is specifically designed for individuals who have a terminal illness and are expected to live six months or less.
What is Hospice?
This service is provided by specialists (like PT or OT) to help a resident restore or improve function after an injury or stroke.
What is Rehabilitation?
If a resident offers you a 20 dollar bill as a "thank you" for your hard work, this is the correct professional response.
What is politely refusing the gift and thanking them for the thought?
This team member spends the most time with residents and provides basic personal care.
Who is the Nursing Assistant (CNA)?
"Ethics" in your own words
what is knowledge of right and wrong
Unlike acute care, which is for short-term immediate needs, this type of facility provides care for people with ongoing, chronic conditions.
What is Long-Term Care (LTC)?
These services are for people who need some assistance and supervision during certain hours of the day but do not live in the facility where care is provided.
What are Adult Day Services?
This is the primary reason healthcare workers should not accept gifts from residents.
What is maintaining professional boundaries (or following facility policy)?
This person is responsible for the entire nursing department in a long-term care facility.
Who is the Director of Nursing (DON)?
the difference between "Assault" and "Battery
Assault is a threat; Battery is physical touch
This setting is for patients who do not need to stay overnight in a hospital but require treatments or surgeries.
What is Outpatient (or Ambulatory) Care?
True or False: Most conditions treated in long-term care facilities are chronic, meaning they last a long period of time.
What is True?
A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs is known as this
What is a Policy?
This professional helps residents learn to use adaptive devices like wheelchairs or special spoons.
Who is an Occupational Therapist (OT)?
Define "Involuntary Seclusion
Separating a person from others against their will
This type of care is provided in a hospital for people who require 24-hour skilled care for short-term, immediate illnesses or injuries.
What is Acute Care?
This group of residents typically has the longest average stay in long-term care facilities.
Who are the developmentally disabled?
This is a specific method or step-by-step way of doing something, such as how to properly wash hands.
What is a Procedure?
This is the term for the line of authority in a facility that ensures residents receive proper care.
What is the Chain of Command?
Which law identified the specific list of Residents' Rights?
What is OBRA
This specific type of care is given to people who need more care than a long-term care facility can provide, but less than a hospital provides for an acute illness.
What is Subacute Care?
This term describes care that is managed by a team of professionals to meet the physical, emotional, and social needs of a resident.
What is Holistic Care?
To "cite" a facility means that a government agency has found this during an inspection.
What is a violation of a regulation or a problem with care?
This document is created by the interdisciplinary team and outlines each resident's specific care needs, goals, and the interventions that will be provided.
what is the Care Plan (or Plan of Care)?
A person appointed to make medical decisions if the resident cannot
Durable Power of Attorney