Healthcare Law
A legal document designating care decisions in case the resident is unable to make decisions later on.
What is an Advance Directive?
This implementation occurs when sheets are soiled or damp.
What is changing the bed sheets?
The act of slapping, shoving, and rough handling a resident.
What is physical abuse?
Prescribing a new medication.
What is outside the nursing assistant's scope of practice?
The statement of it will all work out in the end.
What is a cliche?
A person the nursing assistant is allowed to share medical information with.
What is the resident's doctor?
The proper response when a resident tries to give the nursing assistant a gift.
What is politely refusing?
The act of pinching a resident.
What is physical abuse?
Recording care right after it is done.
What is the correct way to document the care of a resident?
The type of communication used with a resident who is hearing impaired.
What is facing the resident directly when speaking?
It is a type of behavior performed when the nursing assistant protects the resident's privacy.
What is ethical behavior?
Placing the fracture pan with the handle pointing toward the feet.
What is the correct position of a fracture pan?
Joking with the resident about their incontinence.
What is psychological abuse?
The unit of measure used when documenting a resident's fluid intake.
What are milliliters?
The type of communication performed when a resident points to a glass.
What is non-verbal communication?
This law requires the nursing assistant to have 75 hours of training prior to working.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
Placing the standard bedpan with the wider end in alignment with the resident's buttocks.
What is the correct position of the standard bedpan?
Harming a resident physically, mentally, or emotionally by failing to provide needed care.
What is neglect?
The nursing assistant is asked to help perform a tube feeding.
What is gathering supplies?
The nursing assistant uses medical terms the resident does not understand.
What are barriers to communication?
It is a type of advance directive.
What is a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care?
A condition in which the person must follow diet instructions carefully.
What is diabetes?
The act of raising both sides of the rails up on the bed.
What is a physical restraint?
A type of non-sterile dressing the nursing assistant may perform.
What is a dry dressing?
The best way a nursing assistant can communicate with a resident who has cancer.
What is listening?