Legal Stuff
What is OSHA? What do they do?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Ensure safe and healthful working conditions.
What are some barriers to communication?
labeling, sensory impairment, talking too fast and cognitive impairment
Three elements needed to start a fire are?
oxygen, fuel and heat
What are the five basic nutrients?
elements, vitamins, protein, fats and carbs
What are the two levels of isolation precautions?
Standard and Transmission Based
What does CDC stand for?
Centers for disease Control
What is empathy?
ability to understand and share the feelings of another
What are the two acronyms fire extinguishers?
RACE and PASS
purposes of a high protein diet are
help decrease hunger, increase satiety, boost metabolic rate, and preserve muscle mass
Explain Standard Precautions
Standard precautions are the basic level of infection control that should be used in the care of all patients all of the time
What does OBRA stand for and what does it do?
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, apply certain basic rights and guidelines for nursing home care facilities
What are soft skills?
cluster of personality traits that characterize relationships
What is RACE?
Rescue
Alert
Contain
Extinguish
True or False, water can be listed as a sixth basic nutrient.
True
Explain Transmission Based Precautions
Used in addition to standard precautions suspected infections with pathogens that can be transported by airborne, droplet, or contact routes. (exp. a N95 mask for people with TB)
Contracts are what?
A written or spoken agreement
What do you do when you want to make sure a patient understand you?
Talk slowly and ask them to repeat what you had just shown them
What is PASS?
Pull
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep
If somebody has hypertension what kind of diet would the be on?
low sodium diet
What PPE should be used to care for a person with TB?
Normal PPE + a N95 mask
What does HIPAA stand for
Healthy Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What do prejudices include?
Age, National, physical, mental,religious and racial
What is a class B fire extinguisher for?
Class B: Flammable Liquids-Gasoline, oil, grease, acetone (includes flammable gases)
What is Atherosclerosis?
build up of cholesterol in the arteries
What happens to patients who are placed on airborne precautions?
own room, no contact with people, a room with negative airflow