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What is a medical condition determined by a doctor?
Diagnoses
Personal Care
Bathing and mouth care, assistance with walking, eating and drinking, dressing, transferring.
Medicaid
A medical assistance program for people who have low income, as well as people with disability.
Common duties of NA?
Bathing, measuring vital signs, helping with meals, and cleaning.
Charting
noting and recording important information about the resident
Long term care
Given to people that needs 24 hour skilled care
What does Long term care Facilities offer?
Assisted living housing, dementia care, or subacute care.
Medicare
A federal Insurance program that was established for people aged 65 or older, it also covers people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities.
Tasks NA can’t do?
Insert/remove tubes, give tube feedings, change sterile dressings.
Licensed Practical Nurse
A Nurse licensed in giving medications and treatments.
Outpatient Care
People who had treatments or procedures and need short-term skilled care
What does Person-centered care emphasizes?
The individuality of the person who needs care, and recognizes and develops the person‘s capabilities.
What does Medicare also cover?
Part A, helps pay for care in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. Part B, helps pay for doctor services and other medical services. Part C, allows private health insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits. Part D, helps pay for medications prescribed.
Why observe and report changes?
To update the care plan.
Care Plan
individualized for each resident, help achieve goals of care and meet the residents specific needs.
What is given in facilities or homes for people who have six months or less to live?
Hospice Care
Trauma-informed Care
An approach to patient care that recognizes that people may have experienced trauma in their lives.
What does Medicaid cover?
It helps children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities.
Who are the healthcare team members?
Doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, specialists (etc.)
Scope of Practice
defines the task that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do according to state or federal law
What is an illness that will eventually cause death?
Terminal Illness
What does CHF stand for?
Congestive heart Failure
What is the center for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
A federal Agency within the U.S Department of Health and Human Services.
Importance of promoting independence?
Helps residents recover and do more for themselves.
DPT
gives therapy in form of heat, cold, massage, ultrasound, electrical stimulation and exercise to to the muscles like joints and bone