The Healthcare System
The Nursing Assistant's Job
100

focuses on the physical and emotional care of a person

What is holistic? 

100

give another person permission to perform that task on the nursing assistant's behalf.

What is delegation? 

200

provide care for individuals who are dying and their families. 

What is hospice care?

200

the range of tasks that a nursing assistant is legally permitted to do. 

What is "scope of practice?"


300

Physical therapist, housekeeping, dietary, nursing assistant, nurse, physician, social services, lab, pharmacy, x-ray

Who does the healthcare team consist of? 

300

a federal privacy regulation that helps to keep a person's protected health information private and secure. 

What is HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

400

improves the quality of life for people who live in long-term care facilities by making sure that residents receive a certain standard of care. 

What is OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)

400
Touching a person without his/her consent.

What is battery?

500

a type of insurance plan that is federally funded by social security and which all people aged 65 years or older and some younger, disabled people. 

What is Medicare? 

500

confining another person against his/her will

What is false imprisonment?

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