CHAPTER 1
Nursing care pattern where the RN is responsible for the person's total care.
What is Primary Nursing?
Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person.
What is an Ombudsman?
The number of hours OBRA requires the nursing asst training and competency evaluation program have.
What is 75 hours of instruction?
Abbreviation for Hard of hearing
What is HOH?
A brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone.
What is boundary crossing?
When services are moved from departments to the bedside.
What is patient-focused care?
Separating a person from others against their will.
What is involuntary seclusion?
Document that describes what the agency expects you to do.
What is a job description?
Abbreviation for bedside commode
What is BSC?
Serves people when they are dying.
What is hospice?
Person who performs delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
What is a Nursing Assistant?
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation.
What is delegate or delegation?
Abbrev. for pt or Pt
What is patient?
An act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's needs.
What is a boundary violation?
Provides complex care while the person recovers from illness or surgery before returning home.
What is a skilled nursing facility?
A illness or injury is ongoing, is slow, or gradual in onset.
What is a chronic illness?
The name full name for OBRA.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?
Describes the scope and practice for RN, LPN, and LVN.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
An unintentional wrong.
What is negligence?
A federal health insurance program for persons 65 years and older.
What is Medicare?
When health care agencies offer services, the focus of care is always on this.
What is the Person?
To exercise a person's extremities (limbs).
What is Range-of-Motion (ROM)?
NATCEP stands for this.
What is Nursing Assistant Training and Competency Evaluation Program?
Grabbing, slapping, pinching, hair-pulling, or hitting a pt or resident.
What is physical abuse?