Agencies
The Team
Patterns & Payment
Laws & Responsibility
Misc.
100
Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting.
What is an Assisted Living Residence?
100
Assesses, plans, and implements recreational needs. Credentials vary with state and/or employer; ranges from no training to a bachelor's degree.
What is an Activities Director?
100
Focuses on tasks and jobs. Each nursing team member has certain tasks and jobs to do.
What is functional nursing?
100
Its purpose is to improve the quality of life of nursing center residents.
What is The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)?
100
The duty or obligation to perform some act or function.
What is responsibility?
200
Provide emergency care, surgery, nursing care, x-ray procedures and treatments, and laboratory testing.
What is a Hospital?
200
Assists with spiritual needs.
What is Clergy?
200
Involves a team of nursing staff led by an RN. The RN decides the amount and kind of care each person needs.
What is team nursing?
200
The nursing care or nursing function/procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to CNA when it does not require an RN's professional knowledge or judgement.
What is a nursing task?
200
A document that describes what the agency expects you to do.
What is a job description?
300
Provide care for those who cannot care for themselves at home but do not need hospital care.
What is Long-Term Care Centers?
300
Assists nurses and gives nursing care; supervised by a licensed nurse.
What is a CNA?
300
Involves total care. The primary nurse is responsible for the person's total care.
What is primary nursing?
300
Give drugs, take oral or phone orders from doctors, ignore an order or request, release a diagnosis or treatment plan, etc.
What is things a CNA should NEVER do?
300
You must retrain and a new competency evaluation program is required?
What is you have not worked as a CNA in 24 months.
400
Provide more complex care than nursing centers do. They may be a part of hospitals or nursing centers.
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility?
400
Responsible for the entire nursing staff, including giving safe care. They are assisted by Nurse managers.
What is a Director of Nursing?
400
Federal health insurance program for persons 65 years of age or older
What is Medicare?
400
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation.
What is delegation?
400
Ask to be shown what to do and be observed doing it.
What is what should you do if you've never performed or learned a task before?
500
Provide complex equipment and care measures that are needed once released from the hospital.
What is Rehabilitation and Subacute Care Agencies?
500
Assists in the treatment of lung and heart disorders; gives respiratory treatments and therapies.
What is a Respiratory Therapist?
500
Health care payment program sponsored by the federal government, it is operated by the states. People with low incomes usually qualify.
What is Medicaid?
500
Be responsible for one's actions and the actions of others who performed the delegated tasks.
What is being accountable?
500
1. Assess and Plan 2. Communication 3. Surveillance and Supervision 4. Evaluation and Feedback
What is the four steps of the delegation process?
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