Dementia
The most common type of dementia
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The technique of medical asepsis that you will use most frequently
What is handwashing?
Normal rate of a pulse for adults
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
Involves the use of language, either spoke or written.
What is verbal communication?
The range of tasks that a nursing assistant is legally allowed to
What is scope of practice?
Begins to have difficulty recognizing familiar people of things.
Normal respiration rate of an adult
What is 12-20?
Information that you can obtain directly though measurements or by using one of the five senses
What is objective data?
To authorize another person on your behalf
What is to delegate?
People with dementia may stray away from home.
What is wandering?
PPE
What is personal protective equipment?
What is tachycardia?
Is the spoke exchange of information between health care team members.
Are the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal injuries in the United States and accidental death among elderly people
What are falls?
Is the worsening of behavioral symptoms in the late afternoon and evening, as the sun goes day
What is sundowning?
Are precautions that health care workers take with every patient or resident to protect themselves and other from pathogens that are transmitted through blood and other body substances.
What are standard precautions?
Occurs when the heart muscle relaxes.
What is diastolic pressure?
2000
What is 8:00 p.m. ?
Are used to restrict a person's freedom movement, or to prevent a person from reaching parts of their body.
What are restraints?
A person with dementia may over-react to something that would cause a healthy person minimal or no stress.
What is a catastrophic reaction?
Are precautions used when caring for people with diseases caused by pathogens that are transmitted by direct exposure to droplets released from mouth or nose (for example when a person coughs or sneezes.
What are droplet precautions?
The force that the blood exerts against the arterial walls : one of the vital signs.
What is blood pressure?
Type of communication that the answer is either yes or no
What is close ended questions?
Improves the quality of life for people who live in long-term care facilities by making sure that residents receive a certain standard of care
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) ?