Training and Certification
It is comprised of a written/oral test and skills evaluation.
What is the Competency Evaluation or PROMETRICS Test?
These people frequently make up the nursing team?
Who are RNs, LPNs, and CNAs?
The acronym ADPIE stands for these parts of the nursing process.
What is the acronym for the nursing process--Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation?
Long-term care facilities that receive federal money must follow the "Resident Rights" because of this legislation.
What is OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)?
These are the two types of laws that can be violated in health care.
What are Civil and Criminal Laws?
This principle enables a health care professional to transfer their certification to a different state.
What is reciprocity?
This is the RN who directs all of the nursing activities in a facility.
Who is the director of nursing (DON)?
The part of the nursing process that the CNA is most likely to assist with.
What is implementation?
A resident/patients rights are listed in this document.
What is the Patient Bill of Rights or The Patient Care Partnership?
These are the 2 Unintentional Torts.
What are negligence and malpractice?
The minimum number of in-service training hours required each year for a CNA.
What is 12 hours?
In this type of nursing team, each member carries out the same assigned task for all residents/patients.
What is Functional Nursing?
The range of tasks that a health care professional is legally permitted to do.
What is Scope of Practice?
This document consists of written instructions about health care treatment made by an adult before they lose decision-making capacity.
What is an Advanced Directive?
Controlling finances (not letting them spend money), tricking someone into payment, or blackmailing for money are all examples of this violation of Criminal Law (abuse).
What is Financial Abuse?
The name of the legislation that sets the standards for CNA training, continuing education, and certification.
What is OBRA (the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)?
In this type of nursing a team leader (RN) determines all of the patient needs and assigns them to the group.
What is Team Nursing?
These are 3 reasons for declining a task.
What are
1. The task is illegal or unethical, 2. The RN cannot supervise you, 3. You don't have adequate training, 4. The directions are not clear, 5. The task is outside of your scope of practice,. 6. The patient/resident is unstable, 7. You do not have the proper equipment?
This document is used to name your health care agent.
What is a health care proxy?
This type of abuse stems from failing or refusing to provide for the person's basic human needs.
What is neglect?
The minimum number of hours of training required to became a CNA, however, some states require more.
What is 75 hours?
In this type of nursing, one nurse is assigned to several patients/residents and is responsible for planning and carrying out all of the nursing tasks.
What is Primary Nursing?
These are the 5 Rights of Delegation.
What are Right Task, Right Circumstance/condition, Right Person, Right Direction, and Right Supervision?
This is the name of a person who advocates on behalf of residents in a long-term care facility.
Who is an ombudsman?
These are 5 of the 7 unintentional torts.
What are 1. Defamation, 2. Assault, 3. Battery, 4. Fraud, 5. False Imprisonment, 6. Invasion of Privacy, and 7. Larceny?