Communication
The Nurse Aide
Long Term Care
Cultural Diversity
The Care Team
Skills
100
Gestures, facial expressions, body language
What is nonverbal communication?
100
Taking into account each person’s trauma and experiences when planning care.
What is trauma informed care?
100
generally for people who will die in six months or less
What is hospice?
100
How a nurse aide can help a non-english speaking patient communicate.
What is a translator/interpreter?
100
Structure that documents how each member of a company/department reports to one another.
What is the chain of command?
100
Must be done before delivering care AND documenting.
handwashing
200
Course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs
What is a policy?
200
Activities that an individual health care practitioner is permitted to perform within a specific profession.
What is scope of practice?
200
What are the three leading causes of admission into long-term care?
What is stroke, dementia, and lack of resources?
200
Tolerance: accepting behaviors and beliefs that are different from one's own, without necessarily agreeing with or supporting them.
200
Most important member of the care team helps plan care, involved in care decisions.
What is the patient and/or their family?
200
Order of direction when drying hands.
fingertips, hands, wrists
300
Information observed through your senses of hearing, sight, smell, and touch while assessing the patient.
What is objective data?
300
FOUR tasks within the nurse aide's scope of practice.
What is ADL's, ambulation, vital signs, non-sterile wound care, assist with procedures.
*name any four tasks
300
HMO stands for
What is health maintenance organization?
300
Key aspect of cultural competency in healthcare.
What is incorporating the patient's cultural beliefs/values into their care?
300
Coordinates, manages, and provides skilled nursing care, treatments, medication administration, assigns tasks, supervises.
What is the registered nurse (RN)?
300
place all rinse water for bedpan and measuring container goes
toilet
400
Systematic approach to communicating information about patients to other healthcare providers.
What is SBAR?
400
5 rights of delegation
What right task, circumstance, person, communication, and evaluation?
400
Facilities are residences for people who need occasional help with daily care, but do not require 24-hour skilled care.
What is assisted living?
400
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
400
Doctorate program, licensed; helps injured or ill people improve movement and manage pain.
What is physical therapy?
400
Before the patient steps on the scale ______________.
set the scale to zero
500
Difficulty with speech and/or swallowing, may also be concerning for the patient's airway and choking.
What is dysphagia?
500
Systematic guide to client-centered care with 5 sequential steps.
What is the nursing process?
500
Demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement in patient care.
What is accreditation?
500
The practice or policy of including people, especially those who are traditionally excluded.
What is inclusion?
500
Graduate program; determines needs and obtains support services (counseling, financial services).
What is the medical social worker?
500
Make sure the patient has this before walking to the scale.
non-skid footwear