For the love of dignity
How nurse aides provide patients/residents with dignity in all tasks
What is provide privacy?
Being able to identify with and understand how a resident feels with the willingness to alter one's behavior in light of how others feel
What is empathy?
Medical device designed to support, align, or enhance the function of a person's musculoskeletal system and may help with one's appearance
What is Orthotic device?
Largest organ in the body
What is the skin?
Moving body part away from the midline
What is Abduction?
Resident at risk for pressure injury
What is the bedbound resident?
More than 20 breaths per minute
What is tachypnea?
KASIEWAP the E... for dignity
What is explain procedure?
Restores the resident's highest possible level of function through rehabilitation following illness or injury
What is basic restorative care?
Artificial replacement devices for a body part that is missing or deformed
What is prosthetic device?
Height decreases ______ between the ages of 20 and 70
What is 1 to 2 inches?
Moving body part toward the midline
What is adduction?
These occur over bony areas; sacrum is the most common site
What are pressure points?
Changes in skin color, pale or bluish color of the lips or extremities
What is cyanosis?
Quality or state of being worthy of esteem or self-respect
What is dignity?
Nurse's aide's role in recognizing feelings
What is develop empathy?
Special equipment that helps a disabled or ill resident with movement
What is supportive device?
2 functions of the digestive system
What are digestion and elimination?
What is dorsiflexion?
Best way to prevent pressure injury
What is handling, moving, and position the resident?
Involuntary contractions that move food through the digestive system
What is peristalsis?
JK, not Dignity: Levels of hormones decrease, insulin production decreases, and the body is less capable of dealing with stress are changes due to aging for what body system?
What is endocrine system?
This can be accomplished in 8 to 10 weeks if staff consistently follow the plan
What is Bowel and bladder training?
Special equipment that helps a disabled or ill resident perform activities of daily living
What are assistive or adaptive devices?
Structure of urinary system that is 7 to 8 inches in males and 1 to 1.5 inches in females
What is urethra?
The muscle or tendon shortens, freezes, becomes inflexible, causes permanent disability
What is contracture?
____ can contribute to pressure injury. examples are oxygen tubing, tubes, braces, and casts.
What are objects?
Cells that invade and destroy nearby tissues that can also spread to other parts of body
What are malignant (neoplasia) tumors?
JK: Not dignity: Occurs when pancreas produces too little insulin or does not use insulin properly
What is diabetes mellitus?
This staff member plays a crucial role in the bowel and bladder training program
Who is the nurse aide?
Angled utensils are this
What is assistive device?
Change in older adults in urinary system
What is difficulty or incomplete emptying of bladder?
Weakness on one side of the body
What is hemiparesis?
Turn frequency to prevent pressure injury
What is every two hours?
Inability to control bladder leading to an involuntary loss of urine
What is urinary incontinence?