Infection Control
A living thing that can't be seen by the naked eye and most requires warmth, moisture, darkness and oxygen in order to live.
What are microbes?
What is the SDS (Safety Data Sheets)?
Tis is the first thing the nursing assistant should do when a resident who is being ambulated suddenly begins to fall.
What is help manage and guide the fall?
This is the nursing assistant's initial role in an emergency.
What is recognize that an emergency exists?
Severe uncontrolled bleeding.
What is hemorrhage?
The production of antibodies is an example of this type of defense mechanism.
What is specific defense mechanism?
Involves using muscles of the shoulders, thighs, and hips.
What is proper lifting technique?
Tightly tucked bed sheets, sedating medications, raised side rails, and mitts are potential examples of these?
What are restraints?
How a person's airway is opened.
What is tilting the head back and lifting the chin up?
The state of being unable to answer basic questions about a person, place, or time.
What is disoriented?
Ways to break it include: getting vaccinated, washing hands after using the bathroom, taking antibiotics as prescribed, wearing gloves to handle soiled linen.
What is the CHAIN OF INFECTION?
The FIRST action when a fire is found in a residents room.
What is remove the resident to a safe place?
When restraints are used before all other methods of control are tried, the staff could be legally guilty of this.
What is false imprisonment?
The goal of BLS when a person is experiencing either respiratory or cardiac arrest.
What is give emergency care until advanced medical assistance arrives?
The accidental inhalation of a foreign object into the airway.
What is aspiration?
This type of precautions is required when providing care to ANY person.
What is standard precautions?
This is action should be taken first when nursing assistant gets a newly assigned resident with reported confusion.
What is check the Kardex to determine level of assistance?
A resident keeps falling asleep in the dayroom. The nursing assistant should ask the nurse to check for possible complications of this.
What is a chemical restraint?
Type of shock caused by severe allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
Occurs when a person becomes trapped in the side rail, or between the side rail and the mattress.
What is entrapment?
It's purpose is to remove transient flora from the skin.
Besides a fire extinguisher, this is also appropriate to use to extinguish a fire fueled by a cotton cloth.
What is water?
Frequency and Duration that restraints must be completely removed.
What is every 2 hours for 10 minutes.
The location of fists to administer abdominal thrusts.
An occurrence that is considered unusual, undesired, or out of the ordinary and disrupts the normal routine for the patient or resident.
What is an incident?