Orientation
Hospitals, long term care centers, assisted living, home health, hospice, community based systems
What are different health care organizations
Facial expressions, body language, gestures
What is non-verbal communication
Warm, dark, moist
What are favorable conditions for growth of an infection?
RACE
Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish
Supine, prone, lateral, trendelenberg, fowlers
What are different positions to place a resident in?
Federal health insurance program for people 65 years or older
What is medicare
Using vision/sight, hearing, touch and smell to gather information.
What is Objective information aka signs
What is the chain of infection?
Loose floor, extension cords across pathways, loose handrails, poor lighting, throw rugs
What is potential hazard for falls?
Range of motion exercises when a resident/patient moves the joint independently.
What is Active Range of Motion (AROM)
RN, LPN, CNA
What is the nursing team?
Unfamiliar language, cultural differences, interrupting, excessive talking, illness and disability, stress and anxiety
What are communication barriers?
Used for all people, handwashing, gloves, PPE
What is universal (standard) precaustions
MSDS
Material Safety Data Sheet
Special pressure reducing pads or mattresses, keep patients skin clean and dry, avoid shearing and friction, adequate nutrition and hydration, encourage mobility, reposition every 2 hours.
What is pressure injury prevention?
Knowledge of the right and wrong conduct, involves morals, respect for other's values
What is ethics?
Documentation is done in ink, no white out, scribbling or erasing. Date and military time, initial and sign all charting using appropriate abbreviations. Document immediately after doing skill/cares.
What is appropriate documentation techniques
The federal agency that regulates workers safety, CDC, exposure control plan, bloodborne pathgens, biohazardous waste
What is Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA)
Position bed comfortably and in a position of safety, return bed to lowest position, leave call light, perform a general safety check open curtain and door, wash hands, report completion of task, document action and observations.
What are ending procedures?
Contractures, Decubitus/pressure ulcer, Blood clots, pneumonia
What are complications of immobility?
Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without the person's consent.
What is assault?
Still communicate with them, tell them what you are doing, talk to them as if they were awake, assume they can understand more than thy can express, use touch.
What are ways to communicate with someone unconscious/commatose?
What is transmission-based precautions
Cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, shock. A condition that requires immediate medical attention to prevent death or disability.
What is a life threatening emergency?
Maintain a wide base of support, use good posture, keep back straight, use large muscle groups, hold heavy objects close to the body, stand close to the work area, use transfer belts/gait belts and mechanical lifts as needed, avid twisting...
What is good body mechanics?