Care of the Older Person
This word means to shrink.
What is atrophy?
This word means an illness or injury from which one is not likely to recover.
What is terminal?
The definition of this word is getting trapped, caught, or entangled in spaces created by the bed rails, mattress, etc.
What is entrapment?
This word means a state of being unaware of one's settings and being unable to react or respond to people, places, or things.
What is coma?
This words means a human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not develop infection.
What is a carrier?
This word means the study of aging.
What is gerontology?
This is when rehabilitation begins.
When the person first seeks healthcare.
This is the temperature range that OBRA and CMS require in residents rooms.
What is 71-81 degrees.
This is what the acronym RACE stands for.
What is rescue, alarm, confine, extinguish?
MDRO stand for this.
What is multidrug-resistant organisms?
Due to aging, the older person's care should include this for their skin.
What is lotion?
This is a federal law that is enforced by CMS.
What is OBRA?
Re-training and a new competency evaluation program are required for nursing assistants who have not worked for this long.
What is 24 months/2 years?
A device that limits freedom of movement but is used to promote independence, comfort, and safety.
What is an enabler?
This is an infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given.
What is an HAI(Healthcare-associated infection)?
Older persons should avoid dry foods due to this aging change.
What is decreased saliva?
A resident has the right to choose their own doctor, which promotes this resident right.
What is the right to personal choice?
This word means to authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation.
What is to delegate?
The amount of finger(s) used to check a wrist restraint.
What is one finger?
This is the process of destroying all microbes.
What is sterilization?
A husband needs 24 hour nursing care. His wife needs an independent living unit. This would meet their needs.
What is a CCRC(Continuing Care Retirement Community)?
What is an ombudsman?
These are the 5 rights of delegation.
What are right task, circumstance, person, directions and communication, and supervision?
This is how to properly check a waist restraint.
What is one flat hand?
This is the name for the precautions used for persons known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by respiratory droplets.
What is droplet precautions?