End-of-Life Care
This type of care focuses on comfort and quality of life when a cure is no longer the goal.
Hospice
The written guide that tells the HHA what tasks are assigned, allowed, and expected.
Care plan
A client with hypertension, heart failure, or kidney disease may be placed on this dietary limit.
Sodium restriction (low-sodium diet)
These precautions treat blood, body fluids, secretions, and contaminated items as potentially infectious.
Standard precautions
Arriving on time, following policy, accepting feedback, respecting privacy, and staying within scope all show this.
Professionalism
This document may state whether a person wants CPR, a ventilator, tube feeding, or a chosen decision-maker.
Advance Directive
An aide sees shouting, weapons, intoxication, or violence near the client’s home. This must be ensured before completing the visit.
Personal safety
Coughing during meals, wet voice, pocketing food, or choking in a weak client suggests this danger.
Aspiration risk
Mixing bleach with ammonia can create this dangerous result.
Toxic fumes
Emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and feeling ineffective after long-term stress are signs of this.
Burnout
Care given to the body after death, including positioning, cleaning, and maintaining body dignity
Postmortem care
Smoking near oxygen, frayed cords, candles near curtains, and overloaded outlets are examples of this.
Fire hazards
Using the same cutting board for raw chicken and salad without washing it causes this
Cross-contamination
Roach droppings, gnaw marks, bedbugs, rodent nests, or many flies are examples of this.
Infestation signs
Complaining about your agency, coworkers, or personal problems to a client is this.
Boundary violation; unprofessional behavior
A dying resident has irregular breathing with periods of apnea, often seen near the end of life.
Cheyne-Stokes
A fall, medication mistake, unsafe condition, or injury may require this formal agency document.
Incident report
A bulging can, leaking can, or spoiled canned food raises concern for this serious foodborne illness.
Botulism
Doorknobs, faucets, phones, remotes, bed rails, and light switches are examples of these.
High-touch surfaces
Using calm communication, listening, avoiding blame, and seeking solutions during disagreement.
Conflict resolution
A family member begins grieving before the resident dies because death is expected soon.
Anticipatory grief
Giving medications, changing sterile dressings, or performing tasks not assigned in the care plan would be this.
Violation of scope
This food-storage rule means using older items before newer ones.
Used sharps, contaminated dressings, and body-fluid-soaked materials may be considered this.
Hazardous waste
These are the number of hours a CNA must be paid for in order to apply for license renewal every 24-month period.
8 hours