Abbreviations
ASAP
What is As soon as possible?
What is...
Lather all surfaces of wrists hands and fingers producing friction for 20s in a downward position
Rinse all surfaces of wrists, hands, and fingers in a downward position
What is Hand Hygiene or Handwashing
Failure to provide needed care that results in harm (of any kind) to a person.
What is Neglect
Causative agent, Reservoir, Portal of Exit, Mode of Transmission, Portal of Entry, and Susceptible Host.
What is Chain of Infection?
Means not eating or eating very little food.
What is Fasting?
HHA
What is Home Health Aide?
Cleans mouth (including tongue and all surfaces of teeth), using gentle circular motions.
What is Oral Care?
Information that can be used to identify a person.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
Handwashing
What is number 1 way to break the chain of infection?
Means of, or relating to, the spirit of soul.
Na
What is Sodium?
plus or minus 4 beats of evaluator's reading.
What is radial pulse?
Means to keep private things private.
What is Confidentiality?
Means treating blood, body fluids, nonintact skin and mucous membranes as if they were infect.
What is Standard Precautions?
These are rules about what and when followers can eat and drink.
What is dietary restriction?
N/A
What is not applicable
plus or minus 2 breaths of evaluator's reading.
What is Respirations?
Response to poor care and abuse in LTCF.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)?
Practiced in addition to Standard Precautions.
What is Transmission-Based Precautions?
Need for self-actualization, Need for self-esteem, Need for love, Safety and security, physical needs.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
NA
What is Nursing Assistant?
Plus or minus 8mm of evaluator's reading.
What is Manual Blood Pressure?
Resident assessment system that was developed in 1990 and revised periodically.
What is the Minimum Data Set (MDS)?
examples are Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and C.Diff.
What is Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs)
The study of the aging process in people from midlife through old age.
What is Gerontology?