The Nursing Assistant in Long-Term Care
The goal of this accrediting organization is to improve the quality and safety of care given in healthcare facilities
What is the Joint Commission?
This type of legal document states the medical care a resident wants or does not want if he becomes unable to make those decisions.
What is a living will?
A caregiver giving a resident her full attention while the resident is speaking
What is active listening?
One of the most important ways a nursing assistant can help a resident's family members
What is listening?
Treating everyone as if they are infected
What is standard precautions
This type of care is given to people who are not seriously ill and who do not live at the facility where care is provided
What is adult day services?
A term that means someone has touched a resident without his consent
What is battery?
Making observations, evaluating resident information and immediately reporting all potential problems
What is critical thinking?
This person is best equipped to help a nursing assistant communicate with a resident who speaks a different language than the nursing assistant
Who is an interpreter?
A safety measure a nursing assistant would take before safely transferring a person to or from the bed.
What is checking to make sure the bed wheels are locked?
This concept of care involves coordinating resident care on an ongoing basis.
What is continuity of care?
Failure to provide needed care or service, resulting in harm to a resident
What is neglect?
Information based on what a person sees, hears, touches or smells, can be measurable signs.
What is objective data?
The highest need a person may achieve according to Maslow
What is self-actualization?
This type of care helps prevent unintended weight loss, helps reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes, and prevents halitosis, plaque and gingivitis.
What is proper oral care?
The person may cite a facility for failing to provide a resident with the proper amount of daily calories.
What is a surveyor?
Private law or a law between individuals
What is civil law?
What is an incident?
A chronic condition that restricts physical and/or mental ability and includes intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder and fragile X syndrome
What is a developmental disability?
Each resident is different, require unique care requirements. Before starting any care for a resident, the nursing assistant should check this record first.
What is the care plan?
The term for care given for people needing less than acute care but more than long-term care.
What is sub-acute care?
The tasks that a healthcare provider can legally perform
What is scope of practice
A set of learned beliefs values and behaviors
What is culture?
According to Maslow, these needs must be met first
What are physical needs?
Or what are oxygen, water, food, elimination and rest?
Immobility, dehydration, malnutrition, wrinkled linens that do not lie flat under residents, crumbs or other irritating objects in the bed linens, wet linens, laying in the same position for more than 2 hours
What are the conditions for pressure sores?