Vocabulary
accidental or involuntary loss of urine from the bladder or feces from the bowel.
What is incontinence
Damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply
What is a stoke? Also called CVA, cerebrovascular accident.
A federal law that protects sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
What is HIPAA?
PPE stands for
What is Personal Protective Equipment
The maximum temperature of bath water
What is 105 degrees or less?
NPO
What is nothing by mouth
What is waste matter discharged from the bowels after food has been digested? Aka, stool.
Feces
a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high
What is Diabetes?
Also known as the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act creates a national minimum set of standards of care and rights for people living in certified nursing facilities. The purpose is to improve care in nursing homes for the health and safety of residents.
What is OBRA?
The best way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
How to prevent aspiration of food and beverage, and promote ease of swallowing.
What is make sure resident is in a upright sitting position (at a 90 degree angle)?
ADL's
the first measurement of blood pressure; phase when the heart is at work contracting and pushing the blood out of the left ventricle
What is systolic
This is a condition when a person is not getting enough oxygen, and is becoming cyanotic, confused. Their pulse oximeter reading is below 90%
What is hypoxia?
Specifies how residents must be treated while living in a facility. They are an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.
What are Residents' rights?
the route or method of transfer by which an infectious microorganism moves or is carried from one place to another to reach the new host
What is mode of transmission?
The resident has one sided weakness. What side do you dress and undress first.
What is dress the weaker side first and undress the stronger side first?
CHF
What is Congestive Heart Failure
a device that replaces a body part that is missing or deformed
What is a prosthesis?
Indigestion, difficulty breathing, cold and clammy skin, nausea, sternal chest pain, arm pain and jaw pain are all symptoms of.....
What is a myocardial infarction or heart attack?
This occurs when the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen because blood vessels are blocked.
Failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person.
What is neglect?
treating blood, body fluids, non intact skin and mucous membranes as if they were infected.
What is Standard Precautions?
The side of the bed a resident with one sided weakness should get out of
What is their strong side.
COPD
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
paralysis on one side of the body
What is hemiplegia
General term that refers to serious loss of mental abilities such as thinking, remembering, remembering, reasoning, and communicating.
What is dementia?
Healthcare facilities are prohibited from using these unless medically necessary and a doctor must order it.
What are restraints?
MRSA
What is Methacillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus?
If one leg is weaker, a cane should be held in the hand of what side.
What is the stronger side?
AC/HS
What is before meals and bedtime