Definitions
Willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish
Amount of time you have to report suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or misappropriation to leadership team
What is immediately?
Taking unauthorized photos or video and sharing via social media or multimedia messages.
What is explotation?
You can find a grievance form
Where is any desktop computer, Clinical Suite and Chianti Madkins?
Any employee, who witnesses, is told of, or suspects an incident of physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, or misappropraiton of property are to immediately report to...
What is any leadership team member?
Theft of cash, checks, credit cards, jewelry, ect or misuse of property (i.e. using a resident's phone to make a call)
What is financial abuse/misappropriation?
You should submit a completed grievance form to
Who is Chianti Madkins?
Responsible for reporting abuse, neglect, exploitation or misappropriation immediately
Who is everyone?
Examples include:
Not using a gait belt when required or transferring a client alone
Leaving a resident wet or soiled for an extended period of time
Disregarding hydration orders
Failure to deliver or administer medication
The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, temporary, or permanent use of a resident's belongings or money without the resident's consent.
What is financial exploitation?
This type of abuse includes, but is not limited to, humiliation, harassment, and threats of punishment or deprivation.
What is Mental Abuse?
The most commonly reported complaint in nursing homes is this type of passive abuse, which includes ignoring physical needs, poor hygiene, and withholding medication or food.
What is neglect?
Examples include:
Hitting, slapping, pinching, kicking
harassment, inappropriate touching, assault
Threats of harm
humiliation, harassment, intimidation with threats of punishment or depriving care or possessions.
What is abuse?
Separation of a resident from other residents or from his/her room or confinement to his/her room (with or without roommates) against the resident's will or the will of the resident's representative.
What is Isolation or Involuntary Seclusion?
These are injuries when the injury was not observed by any person or the course of the injury could not be explained by the resident.
What is Injuries of Unknown Origin?
This is the act of returning like for like or the act of returning an injury or wrong in kind.
What is retaliation?
Nurses should not chart bruises or skin tears of unknown origin; instead, they seek to find the underlying reason.
What is the root cause?
Unexplained bruising, unexplained weight loss, fear for health and safety, unexplained fractures
What are signs of physical abuse & neglect?