Healthcare Settings
Terminology
Role of the NA
Medical Record
Resident Assessment
100

This type of care is generally given to people with 6 months left to live, or a decrease in quality of life.

What is Hospice Care?

100

Personal daily care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and hair, toileting, eating and drinking, walking and transferring.

What is Activities of Daily Living?

100
Promoting independence, keeping living areas neat and clean, making beds, giving backrubs and caring for supplies.
What is Duties of a nursing assistant?
100
1830
What is 6:30 pm?
100
The initial values that can be compared to future measurements.
What is baseline vital signs
200
This type of care is given to people who need a high level of care for ongoing conditions.
What is Long-term care?
200

Requires 4 signatures to be accepted. (1 resident, 1 nurse, and 2 CNA's)

Shower refusal form

200
Give medications, inserting and removing tubes, and change sterile dressings
What is things a nursing assistant can not do?
200
Draw one line through it. Put your initials and date
What is how to correct a mistake?
200
Process in which a person with the help of a doctor makes informed decisions about his or her health care.
What is Informed consent?
300
This type of care given in a hospital or in a long-term care facility and is given to people who have had an acute injury or illness.
What is Sub acute care?
300

These relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility. They are an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.

What is Resident's Rights?

300
If you see a resident who needs help, even if he or she is not on your assignment sheet, provide the needed care.
What is Responsibility for Residents?
300
Its purpose is to keep health information private and secure. It was last revised in 2002
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
300
Resident falls, damaging resident supplies, on the job injuries and exposure to blood and body fluids
What are sentinel events?
400
This medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist and is ordered by a doctor and involves a treatment plan.
What is Skilled Care?
400

Walking the hall to give specific, detailed information on a resident at the end or beginning of a shift.

what is walking report.

400
Must have 75 hours of training and provide routine personal care, such as bathing and toileting
What is a Nursing Assistant?
400
Written as 0000 or 2400
What is Midnight?
400
Within 14 days of admission, once a year, reviewed every three months and any major change in residents condition.
What is when a MDS must be completed?
500
The number of days a person stays in a care facility.
What is Length of stay (LOS)?
500
requires states to keep a current list of aides, sets the minimum standards for nurse aide training, sets minimum staff guidelines
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1987)
500
What happened, state facts, it does not go on the medical record and suggestions are taken
What is how you should complete an incident form.
500
Documentation protects you and your employer from liability by providing what you did.
Why careful charting is important?
500
Developed in 1990 it is a form with guidelines for assessing residents.
What is Minimum Data Set?
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