Medical Definitions
Most medical terms come from which languages
What is latin and greek
The heart has this many chambers
what is 4
True or False. If you practice beyond the legal limits of your role, you would be practicing without a proper license.
True
What is an advocate?
What are Medicare and Medicaid ?
These are two positional terms used to describe positions of patients.
What is fowlers, lateral, prone, supine
These are the 3 main parts of the brain
What are the cerebrum, the cerebellum and brainstem
You are allowed this many attempts to pass the skills evaluation for state testing
What is 3 attempts
The resident or patient has the right to perform services, garden, sew, cook etc but not for care, care items, or privileges.
What is the right to work?
What is a job description?
What are the medical abbreviations for before meals and at bedtime?
What is ACHS
What is thrombocytes and they help in clotting.
Each state has a law that describes scope of practice, education and licensing requirements.
What is a nurse practice act?
This law requires care centers to provide care in a manner that improved quality of life, safety and health.
What is OBRA?
Name in order the chain of command of a nursing department. (from lowest to highest)
What is CNA, LPN, RN, Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Nurse managers, DON
Define prefix, root and suffix
prefix tells location, directions, type, quality, or quantity
root tells gives the essential meaning. tells the body part, organ or system
suffix tells speciality, test, procedure or disorder or status or function.
What are the IVC and SVC
Training program requires this many instruction hours and this many practical training hours minimum.
What is 75 and 16
The patient has the right to voice their concern about a person, treatment or care.
What is a grievance?
The nursing assistant registry online contains information that stays on there for how many years?
What is 5 years
These are 5 directional terms
What are proximal, distal, superior, inferior, medial, lateral, dorsal, plantar, anterior, posterior
The lungs use this body part to process gas exchanges and uses this muscle to help breathe.
What is alveoli and diaphragm.
NATCEP stands for this
What is Nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program
This involves a CNA reading the resident's mail or going through their belongings without their permission.
What is invasion of privacy?
The nurse is responsible for a patient's total care including medications, bathing, feeding, etc when CNA's are short staffed.
What is primary nursing?