Member of the Health Care Team
Performs assigned tasks, such as measuring vital signs, and provides or assists with personal care, such as bathing residents and helping with elimination needs.
What is a nursing assistant?
Medical term used for rapid respiration.
What is Tachypnea?
Term meaning being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts.
What is conscious?
The used to describe how the body uses food to maintain health.
What is nutrition?
Involuntary contractions that move food through the gastrointestinal system.
What is peristalsis?
Transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task?
What is delegation?
What is apical pulse?
The result of decreased blood flow to the brain, causing temporary loss of consciousness.
What is syncope?
When the body cannot handle the amount of fluid consumed.
What is fluid overload?
Raw sores in the stomach.
What is peptic ulcers?
Tasks that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do according to state or federal law.
What is scope of practice?
A warm soak of the perineal area.
What is a sitz bath?
The medical term for nosebleed.
What is epistaxis?
This tube is inserted into the nose and goes to the stomach.
What is a nasogastric tube?
A type of urinary catheter that is inserted to drain urine from the bladder and is removed after urine is drained.
What is a straight (in and out) catheter.
Describes the line of authority and helps to make sure that residents get proper health care. The order of who to report to.
What is the chain of command?
During this phase, the heart is at work, contracting and pushing the blood from the left ventricle of the heart.
What is systolic phase?
What is shock?
What is a diuretic?
A condition that causes diarrhea, constipation, or both on a regular basis.
What is irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)?
Term that describes someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.
What is liability?
A device that puts moisture into the air.
What is a humidifier?
A warning sign of a CVA.
What is transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
A type of diet that eliminates poultry, meats, fish and eggs, but allows diary products.
What is a lacto-vegetarian diet?
A condition in which a blockage of arteries in the kidneys causes high blood pressure.
What is renovascular hypertension?