Vital Signs
This vital sign measures the number of times a person breathes in one minute.
Respiration Rate
This is the single most important action to prevent the spread of infection.
Hand Hygiene
This document allows a resident to state their medical wishes ahead of time.
Advanced Directive
This acronym helps staff remember the steps to take during a fire emergency.
RACE
Residents in this type of facility usually live in their own apartment but receive help with meals and medications.
ALF-Assisted Living Facility
Term used when someone has a low blood pressure
Hypotension
These precautions are used for all residents, regardless of diagnosis.
Standard Precautions
Failing to provide care that results in harm to a resident is called this.
Negligence
If a resident is choking and cannot speak, cough, or breathe, you should perform this procedure.
Back blows followed by abdominal thrusts
This facility provides short-term rehabilitation after surgery, illness, or injury.
Subacute Facility
When taking a radial pulse, you should never use this finger because it has its own pulse.
Thumb
This type of PPE must be worn when you expect contact with blood or body fluids.
Gloves
Sharing a resident’s private health information without permission violates this law.
HIPPA
What does the acronym PASS stand for?
Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep
In this setting, CNAs travel to the resident’s private home to provide care.
Home Health Care
This is the first (top) number in a blood pressure reading and measures pressure when the heart contracts.
Systolic Pressure
This is the correct order for removing PPE to prevent contamination.
Gloves, goggles/face shield, gown, and mask
This type of abuse involves threatening, humiliating, or intimidating a resident.
Emotional/Verbal abuse
If a resident falls, you should NOT do this unless they are in immediate danger.
Move the resident
This type of unit provides specialized care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Memory Care unit
A CNA must report this temperature because it is considered a fever in most adults.
100.4 and above
What type of isolation would you use for someone with Tuberculosis?
Airborne Precautions
A CNA suspects abuse of a resident by a family member. The family member is not currently in the resident's room. What should the CNA do?
Report suspected abuse to Nurse
In an evacuation, residents who can walk are usually moved in this order.
Ambulatory first
This facility provides emergency treatment and acute care for serious illnesses and injuries.
Acute Care Facility