Chapter 1: Nursing Assistant in Long-Term Care
Definition: Care given in hospitals or in long-term care facilities for people who need less care than for an acute illness or injury but more than for a chronic illness.
What is subacute care?
What is ombudsman?
Definition: An unexpected event that causes serious injury or death
What is adverse/sentinel event?
Definition: A surgically-created opening through the neck into the trachea.
What is tracheostomy?
Definition: The study of various cultures with the goal of providing care specific to each culture.
What is transcultural nursing?
Definition of criminal laws?
What is protect society from people or organizations that try to harm them?
Residents have a legal right to be told of changes in their medical condition. To which one of the Residents' Rights does this relate?
What is right to participate in their own care?
Convert 8:33 p.m. to military time.
What is 20:33?
A resident refuses to believe her diagnosis of a terminal illness. This is an example of which defense mechanism?
What is denial?
Fill in the blank: ________ development is the process of children forming a sense of right or wrong.
What is moral?
What does HIPAA stand for?
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Being this way means that a nursing assistant is able to speak and act without offending others.
What is tactful?
What does the abbreviation PRN stand for?
What is when needed?
If a resident becomes combative, the best response by the nursing assistant would be to:
What is stay at a safe distance from the resident?
Name the 5 types of wellness
What is physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual?
Name 5 qualities a nursing assistant must have
What is patient and understanding, honest and trustworthy, conscientious, enthusiastic, courteous, empathetic, dependable and responsible, humble, tolerant, or unprejudiced?
Why was OBRA created?
What is in response to reports of poor care and abuse in long-term care facilities?
Fill in the blank: Before the end-of-shift report, the NA should tell the nurses about such things as changes in ___________ or temperature and skin changes that could signal the start of a ____________.
What is pulse and pressure injury?
List 4 physical symptoms of anxiety
What is nausea, shaking, sweating, chest pain, or rapid heartbeat?
Name the 5 levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
What is Physical Needs, Safety and Security Needs, Need for Love, Need for Self-esteem, and Need for Self-actualization?
Why is the evaluation step an important part of the problem solving method?
What is to determine whether the solution was successful or if another solution would have worked better?
Definition of defamation?
Two forms of defamation and what kind are they?
What is any untrue statement that injures a person's reputation and/or damages the person's ability to make a living?
What is Libel (written form) and slander (oral form)?
Define these common abbreviations:
BID
q.2h
p.c.
What is...
Twice a day
Every 2 hours
After meals?
Name the 6 different defense mechanisms
What is denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, repression, and regression?
What stage of adulthood do people find themselves in a midlife crisis?
What is middle?