Emergency Care
Proper rate for chest compressions.
100 to 120 per minute?
Emergency care given to an ill or injured person before help arrives.
What is first aid?
The stage of dying when the person makes promises for more time.
What is stage 3: Bargaining?
What is the first stage of grief?
Denial
Position to place a patient having a seizure after protecting head.
What is on the patient's side?
Proper way to relieve a foreign object in a pregnant woman, infant, or obese person.
What are chest thrusts?
Some ways you can comfort a dying patient.
What are listening and touch?
Most residents do not have a fear of facing death alone? True or False
False
This delivers a shock to the heart. The shock stops the VF.
What is a defibrillator?
The excessive loss of blood in a short amount of time.
What is hemorrhage?
What is the focus of hospice? Give 2 answers
pain relief and comfort
After a resident dies, the first thing the CNA will do is what?
Clean the body (close the eyes, put dentures in, put in supine position)
A life-threatening sensitivity to an antigen that may include laryngeal edema and dyspnea.
What is anaphylactic shock?
When breathing stops but hear action continues for several minutes.
What is respiratory arrest?
What does palliative care given by hospice focus on?
Relieving uncomfortable symptoms
What are some Advance Directives?
Living Wills, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, Do Not Resuscitate Order
Applying pressure to the ____ of person who is hemorrhaging if direct pressure does not stop it.
What is the artery above the bleeding site?
When the heart stops suddenly and without warning.
What is cardiac arrest?
The sense that is usually the last to go in a dying resident is what?
hearing
What is one way a nursing assistant can be respectful and courteous about the cultural and religious beliefs of a dying person?
Intervene and honor requests that the person may have that contributes to their spiritual beliefs