Miscellaneous. 1
Eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, using the toilet and moving
What are ADL's or activities of daily living
What are the minimum number of hours needed in some states to become a nursing assistant?
What does PPE stand for and what is it?
What is personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, goggles).
The tasks that a nursing assistant is legally permitted to do as defined by the state and the employer.
What is scope of practice.
What is standard precautions and when should they be used?
Standard precautions includes simple hand washing and the use of gloves when coming into direct contact with everyone.
Thinking about infection control, what method would be used to kill ALL microbes?
What is sterilization.
Giving another the authority and responsibility for completing certain tasks on one's behalf.
What is delegation
The single most important thing you can do to prevent the spread of infection?
What is hand washing
An infection that a person gets while receiving care in a health care faculty.
What is a health care associated infection (HAI) or nosocomial infection
Practices used by healthcare workers to prevent the spread of microbes when a person has a disease known to be transmitted in a specific way: includes airborne, droplet, and contact precautions.
What are transmission-based precautions
What do these ROM terms mean: Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction?
What is bending, straightening, moving away from, moving towards something or midline
The person receiving care, the person's family members and staff members and other professionals who are responsible for providing care and other services.
What is the healthcare team
How is sterilization different from disinfecting something?
Sterilization is the only method that will kill all microbes while disinfectants will only kill some but NOT all microbes,
Name 3 signs and symptoms of heart attack or Myocardial Infarction (MI).
Chest pain, nausea, light-headed, fatigue, sweating, paleness, arm or referred pain
Name 3 things you would do when you witness someone having a seizure.
Do not place anything in the persons mouth, clear the area of any objects or furniture that could injure the patient, time the seizure, get help and immediately report the situation to the nurse
Name 3 reasons you might not take a person's temperature using the oral route.
Person is receiving oxygen by mask, person is comatose or unresponsive, person cannot hold thermometer in mouth, person has cognitive impairment and may bite down on temperature probe, person will not sit still and is moving around, person has recently ate or drank something hot or cold, person has had oral surgery or mouth sores
A blood pressure reading that is 180/90 would be considered to be...
Hypertension
A vaccination recommended by OSHA to prevent the spread of blood borne illness in all health care workers and that is normally offered free of charge by all health care employers
Hepatitis B vaccine
To become certified in the State of Wisconsin and placed on the nursing assistant registry, OBRA requires....
Pass a competency test--written and skill performance exam
A device placed at the foot of the bed to prevent linens and/or blankets from touching or rubbing on a patient's feet.
What is a bed cradle
Measures that health care workers take to help a person regain and maintain strength, health and function with treatment, education and prevention of further disability
What is restorative care or restorative nursing.
What does the acronym RACE stand for?
Remove any patients or residents who are in immediate danger to safety Activate the alarm Contain the fire by closing doors and windows Extinguish the fire if possible, or if the fire is large or spreading quickly.
What is the first role as a nursing assistant when responding to any emergency?
Your ability to recognize that an emergency exists
What 2 specific types of individuals are more prone to getting infections?
The very young and the very old
What does the acronym MSDS stand for and what is it?
What is Material Data Safety Sheet and it lists what the chemical is made from which exposures may be dangerous what to do if an exposure occurs how to clean up spills.