Health Care Agencies
Helping persons return to their highest physical and mental function
Rehabilitation
Investigates resident complaints
Ombudsman
Protects the public from persons practicing nursing without a license
a nurse practice act
To answer to one's self and others about his or her choices, decisions, and actions
accountable
Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person
Ombudsman
A goal to reduce the risk of physical or mental illness
Health promotion
Voice complaints about care
Residents right
minimum requirements for nursing assistant training and evaluation
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)
Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, skill, or activity
nursing task
An illness of rapid onset and short duration
Acute
A health care program for dying persons
Hospice
legal right to act on a resident's behalf
Representative
official record or listing of persons who have successfully completed that state's approved NATCEP
a nursing assistant registry
to authorize or direct a nursing assistant to perform a nursing task
Delegate
Official recognition by a state that standards or requirements have been met
Certification
Who is responsible for the entire nursing staff and safe nursing care
The director of nursing (DON)
• Personal choice
• Privacy and confidentiality
• A safe, clean, and comfortable setting
ways to promote a person's right
the official recognition by a state that standards or requirements have been met
Certification
The Right Task
The Right Circumstance
The Right Person
The Right Directions and Communication
The Right Supervision and Evaluation
The Five Rights of Delegation for Nursing Assistants
blood condition involving too much sugar
Hyperglycemia (hyper-glyc-emia)
See if agencies meet set standards
Surveys
The Older Americans Act
A federal law
nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, skill, or activity
A nursing task
communicating delegation concerns to the nurse
Professional Responsibility
a term that means at once or immediately
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