Infection
These are the four pieces of personal protective equipment a nursing assistant must wear when caring for a resident on Contact Precautions.
What are gloves, gown, mask, and eye protection?
This is the normal pulse range for an adult at rest, measured in beats per minute
What is 60 to 100 beats per minute?
This is the term for the gradual loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs naturally with aging, making elderly residents weaker, more prone to falls, and less able to perform ADLs without assistance.
What is sarcopenia?
This stage of pressure injury involves intact, non-blanchable redness on unbroken skin and is the earliest warning sign that tissue damage is beginning.
What is a Stage 1 pressure injury?
A person is considered intellectually disabled when they require support with these — the practical skills needed to manage daily life, such as communication, self-care, social interaction, and decision-making.
What are adaptive skills?
This type of transmission-based precaution is used for residents with MRSA, VRE, or C. difficile, requiring the nursing assistant to wear gloves and a gown upon entering the room.
What are Contact Precautions?
This federal agency requires healthcare workers, including nursing assistants, to have knowledge of hazardous substances and workplace safety through its Hazard Communication Standard and Safety Data Sheets.
What is OSHA — the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
These are the three methods used to measure a elderly person's growth
What are changes in thoughts and behaviors, height and weight, and changes in body function?
This stage of pressure injury is the most severe, involving full thickness tissue loss with exposed bone, tendon, or muscle visible in the wound bed.
What is a Stage 4 pressure injury?
This is the key difference between delirium and Alzheimer's disease — one is reversible and treatable when the underlying cause is identified and corrected, while the other is a progressive, irreversible disease with no cure.
What is delirium is reversible and Alzheimer's disease is irreversible?
A nursing assistant caring for a resident on Contact Precautions removes their gown and gloves, then walks to the nurses' station before performing hand hygiene. This action breaks this specific link in the chain of infection.
What is the mode of transmission?
A resident's respirations are 8 breaths per minute and they are difficult to arouse. This dangerously slow breathing rate, which must be reported to the nurse immediately, is called this.
What is bradypnea?
The greater this factor in a disability, the more it limits a resident's ability to function independently in daily life.
What is the severity of the disability?
This nutritional element, found in proteins such as meat, eggs, and beans, is essential for wound healing and maintaining tissue integrity, and its deficiency in elderly residents significantly increases the risk of pressure injury development.
What is protein?
This is the term used to describe a sudden, uncontrolled burst of electrical activity in the brain that causes the body to shake, convulse, or lose consciousness.
What is a seizure?
This is the term for a microorganism — such as a bacterium, virus, fungus, or parasite — that causes disease in a susceptible host.
What is a pathogen or infectious agent?
A patient returns from an outpatient surgical procedure, this is a crucial step a NA must take regarding the patient's vital signs and linen.
What is to ensure to monitor VS maintain WNLs and a clean linen change to prevent infection
This type of care focuses on helping residents maintain or regain their highest possible level of physical and functional ability by encouraging them to do as much for themselves as safely possible, rather than doing everything for them.
What is restorative care?
Failure to reposition a resident from this flat-on-the-back position every two hours places them at highest risk for pressure injuries on the sacrum, heels, and back of the head
What is the supine position?
his type of health promotion activity — including painting, music, reminiscence groups, and gardening — supports cognitive function, reduces depression and anxiety, and improves quality of life in elderly residents with dementia.
What is meaningful activity or therapeutic recreation?
A resident has a fever, cloudy foul-smelling urine, and increased confusion. These are the classic signs of this common healthcare-associated infection linked to urinary catheters.
What is a catheter-associated urinary tract infection or CAUTI?
A resident's respirations are 8 breaths per minute and they are difficult to arouse. This dangerously slow breathing rate, which must be reported to the nurse immediately, is called this.
What is the bradypnea
This is the name of the federal law that protects the rights of elderly residents in long-term care facilities to make their own health decisions, refuse treatment, and participate in their own care planning — forming the legal foundation of health promotion and person-centered care.
What is OBRA — the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987?
This is the term for having a resident sit on the edge of the bed with their legs hanging down before standing, allowing blood pressure to stabilize and reducing the risk of dizziness and falls.
What is dangling?
A nursing assistant observes that a resident's body temperature is rising, their skin is cool, pale, and mottled with a purplish-blue pattern on the knees and feet, and their pulse is weak and irregular. Together, these three signs indicate this is happening.
What are signs that a resident is approaching death due to circulatory failure?