Category 1: Group Types
This group is formed to accomplish a specific job, project, or goal.
What is a task group?
This is the stage when group members first meet and become acquainted.
What is the initiation stage?
This document summarizes your education, skills, qualifications, and employment experience.
What is a résumé?
This document shows what assigned care your client is to receive
What is the nursing kardex?
This type of group helps members cope with problems, change behaviours, or improve their well-being.
What is a therapy group?
During the initiation stage, members learn about this—the reason the group exists and what it hopes to accomplish.
What is the group's purpose or goals?
This type of résumé lists your employment history beginning with your most recent job.
What is a chronological résumé?
What is a pen?
Your family and closest friends are examples of this type of group.
What is a primary group?
What does the abbreviation PRN stand for?
What is: when necessary/as necessary
This is the usual number of references you should be prepared to provide to an employer.
What are three references?
You did not provide the care yourself and did not witness it. Should you chart that you heard?
NO!
Coworkers, classmates, and members of organizations are commonly part of this type of group.
What is a secondary group?
A new HCA study group meets for the first time. Everyone introduces themselves and discusses what they hope to accomplish. What stage are they in?
What is the initiation stage?
You should always do this before putting someone's name down as a reference.
What is ask their permission?
You must only use facility approved _______ when charting.
Abbreviations
A group of HCAs is asked to organize a health-promotion event for their facility. They would be considered this type of group.
What is a task group?
this abbreviation means immedately!
Your former supervisor, instructor, or employer may be a good choice for this because they can speak about your abilities and reliability.
What is a reference?
DAILY DOUBLE! Name five guidelines for charting that help documentation meet legal standards.
What are accurate, factual/objective, complete, timely, legible, dated/timed, signed, using approved abbreviations, correcting errors properly, maintaining confidentiality, and documenting only what you did/observed?