The Care Team
This is a type of care provided in a facility for those who are being helped to restore their ability with the goal of returning to their home
What is rehabilitation?
To become a nurse aide I the individual must do this (two parts)
What is complete a state approved nurse aide training program (NAT) and then pass a state Nurse Aide certification exam?
This is what a nursing staff member is called who may observe a negative interaction between another staff member and a resident
What is a mandated reporter?
To ensure the care plan is up to date the nurse aide should do this
What is report all changes in the resident's condition to the nurse?
Nurse aides should not share this with their resident
What is their personal problems
This should be worn clipped to the upper right of the nurse aide's scrub top
What is the ID badge?
This licensed care team member helps the resident improve their muscle function after an injury
who is the physical therapist?
These are tasks that the nurse aide performs daily with the resident to assist them in maintaining their physical wellbeing
What is the ADLs?
What is battery?
This is what the nurse aide should do if they are delegated a task that is not on the resident's care plan
What is not perform the task?
This means that a resident understands their diagnosis, prognosis and their treatment plan so they can make a decision
What is informed consent
This program is meant to assist people with low or no income
What is Medicaid?
When the nurse aide cannot complete their delegated task they should tell this person
Who is the nurse?
Every two years the nurse aide should renew this
What is their certification (3 months prior to their expiration date)
This is the act of knowingly not providing care that may lead to resident injury
What is active neglect?
To create a care plan the nurse will use this method of gathering and organizing data
What is ADPIE or the nursing process
This is the type of nursing care values the individual's preferences for their care that looks beyond their medical care and provides them with meaningful purposeful living
What is holistic care?
When the resident offers the nurse aide a tip for the care provided the nurse aide will do this
Politely decline the offering
The most forgotten members of a care team
Who is the resident and their family
What can the nurse aide do when asked to give a resident medication
What is refuse to give the medication?
The nurse aide should follow this when reporting an issue with a co-worker
What is the chain of command?
This section of the care plan informs the nurse aide how the resident is moved from one surface to another
What is transfering?
This is what a nurse aide would not refer to a resident as
slang such as "sweetheart" "darling" or "Granny"
This type of facility will use a lift if a resident fell to the floor
What is a No Lift facility?
This act required that nurse aide receive formal training from an approved training course
What is OBRA?
When a person accepts that there are many different types of lifestyles that they may not agree with
What is tolerance?
This is the information that should be kept confidential according to HIPAA law
Private health information (PHI)
These are what the nurse must consider when delegating tasks to nurse aides
What are the five Rights of Delegation?
What are professional boundaries
This is a legal document that states the resident does not wish to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation
What is the DNR