Residents'
Rights
Rights
This right includes allowing residents to choose their own clothing and what food they eat, for example.
The right to make independent choices.
This kind of abuse involves pushing, hitting or slapping a resident.
What is physical abuse?
This person is in charge of the Nursing Assistant.
Who is the nurse?
What does the HIPAA law require of Nursing Assistants?
The rule that all information about a resident and their care is confidential and private.
This body system includes the bladder.
What is the urinary system?
This right means that residents can have visitors when they want.
The right to visits.
This kind of abuse involves taking residents money or possessions.
What is financial abuse?
This person can write a prescription for medicine for the resident and give a diagnosis.
Who is a doctor?
This person is a legal advocate for the residents.
What is an ombudsman?
This system allows humans to have children.
What is the reproductive system?
This right includes keeping resident medical and personal information confidential.
What is the right to privacy and confidentiality.
This kind of abuse means not taking care of a resident, giving them attention and leaving them alone.
What is neglect? What is negligence?
This person decides what food is best for the resident to eat.
Who is a Registered Dietician? (RD)
This word means the knowledge of right and wrong.
What are ethics?
This body system includes 206 bones.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
This right includes allowing residents to tell a nurse or manager that something is not going well.
What is the right to complain?
This kind of violence happens at home by spouses, domestic partners or family members. It can include physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
What is domestic violence or abuse?
This person makes an exercise plan to help the resident recover and rehabilitate from injury or illness.
Who is the Physical Therapist?
What is the name for an accident, problem or unexpected event during the course of care? An NA must document this type of event in the residents's chart.
What is an incident?
This system helps your body fight off disease.
What is the lymphatic system?
This right means residents must not be abused, mistreated or neglected in any way.
The right to dignity, respect and freedom.
This kind of abuse is emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, isolating or insulting a person and treating them like a child.
What is psychological abuse?
This person helps a resident with their speech after a stroke and can help determine if they have trouble with swallowing or eating.
Who is a speech-language pathologist?
This word means the method, or way of doing something. It starts with the letter "p".
What is a procedure?
This system includes all of your skin.
What is the integumentary system?