Types of Abuse
The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, temporary or permanent use of a resident's belongings or money without the resident's consent.
Misappropriation of Residents Property (also a type of financial abuse)
Fire Procedures
RACE and PASS (Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish) and (Pull the pin, Aim at the base, Squeeze the trigger, Sweep from side to side)
Residents must be respected and treated with dignity by caregivers. They cannot be abused, mistreated, or neglected in any way.
Right to dignity, respect, and freedom.
Residents have a right to privacy when care is given.
Their medical, personal, and financial information cannot be shared with anyone but the care team.
Residents have the right to private, unrestricted communication with anyone.
Right to privacy and confidentiality.
Opening a residents mail without their permission is violating the residents right to?
Right to Privacy.
Any treatment, intentional or unintentional, that causes harm to a persons body. It includes slapping, bruising, cutting, burning, physically restraining, pushing, shoving, and rough handling.
Physical Abuse
What year did Hoosier Village transition to a retirement community?
1956
Residents have the right to see doctors, family, friends, clergy, members, ombudsmen, legal representatives, or any other person in the facility.
Right to visits
Residents can make choices about their doctors, care, and treatments. They have the right to a reasonable accommodation of their needs and preferences.
Right to make independent choices.
When getting ready to dress a resident, the nurse assistant should let the resident decide on?
What to wear.
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person, or treating them as a child.
Psychological Abuse
What is the procedure if you suspect you have COVID-19?
Notify your supervisor and come to the front of HC to be tested prior to your shift
Location changes must be made safely and with the resident's knowledge and consent, they have the right to stay in a facility unless a transfer or discharge is needed. They also have the right to appeal location changes.
Rights during transfers and discharges.
Residents have the right to participate in planning their treatment, care, and discharge.
They have the rights to refuse medication, treatment, care, and restraints.
They have the right to be told of changes in their condition.
They have the right to review their medical record.
They have the right to informed consent.
Right to participate in their own care.
The residents family wants to have a care plan meeting without the residents involvement so that they can decide on the plan of care, but the resident has the right to?
Participate in their own care.
The purposeful failure to give needed care, resulting in harm to a person
Active Neglect
How often and where should you do Relias training?
Annually (trainings throughout the year) and at work on the clock.
Residents' personal possessions must be safe at all times. They cannot be taken or used by anyone without a resident's permission.
Residents have the right to file a complaint with the state survey and certification agency for misappropriation of their property.
Right to security of posessions.
Residents must be told what services are available and what the fee is for each service.
They must be given a written copy of their legal rights, along with facility rules.
Legal rights must be explained in a language the can understand.
Right to be fully informed about rights and services.
A female resident's husband has asked for some time alone with his wife in her room. What should the CNA do?
Let the husband visit and give them privacy.
The separation of a person from others against the person's will
Involuntary Seclusion
What is the procedure for reporting abuse?
1. Notify DON/Administrator immediately
2. Fill out resident grievance/complaint form fully
The facility must provide residents with access to these services, which includes counseling, assistance in solving problems with others, and help contacting legal and financial professionals.
Rights with Social Services.
Rights to work with the person who works with the nursing home in an effort to protect the rights of the residents.
They are officials appointed by the government who are trained to receive complaints and assist residents to resolve problems in situations involving quality of care, use of chemical or physical restraints, transfer and discharge, abuse and other aspects of resident rights.
Ombudsman.
When a resident feels that their rights have been violated, they have the right to?
File a Grievance