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Name that abuse
100

Willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish

What is Abuse
100
The use of oral, written or gestured language that willfully includes disparaging and derogatory terms to residents or their families, or within hearing distance, regardless of their age, ability to comprehend, or disability.
What is Verbal Abuse?
100
An official statement of a real or imagined wrong or cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.
What is a Grievance?
100
When do you have to report suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or misappropriation?

What is... Immediately, but within 2 hours of the allegation or not later than 24 hours if suspicion of neglect or exploitation does not result in bodily injury.

100
Taking unauthorized photos or video and sharing via social media or multimedia messages.
What is Social Media Posts?
200
The failure of the facility, its employees or services providers to provide goods and services to a resident that are necessary to avoid physical harm, pain, mental anguish, or emotional distress.
What is Neglect
200
This type of abuse includes, but is not limited to, sexual harassment, sexual coercion or sexual assault.
What is sexual abuse?
200
Where you can find a grievance form

Where is the nurses station, social services, therapy, or administrator office?

200
any employee, who witnesses, is told of, or suspects an incident of physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, or misappropraiton of property are to immediately report to...
Who is the Administrator or designee  
200
Theft of cash, checks, credit cards, jewelry, ect or misuse of property (i.e. using a resident's phone to make a call)
What is misappropriation?
300
Taking advantage of a resident for personal gain through the use of manipulation, intimidation, therats or coercion.
What is Exploitation
300
This type of abuse includes, but is not limited to, hitting, slapping, pinching and kicking. It also includes controlling behavior through corporal punishment.
What is Physical Abuse?
300
The place you submit a completed grievance form.  
Where is social services or administrator's office?
300
Who's responsibility it is to report abuse, neglect, explotation or misappropraiton
Who is everyone?
300

Examples include:

Not using a gait belt when required or transferring a client alone

Leaving a resident wet or soiled for an extended period of time

Disregarding hydration orders

Failure to deliver or administer medication

What is neglect?
400
The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, temporary, or permanent use of a resident's belongings or money without the resident's consent.
What is Misappropriation
400
This type of abuse includes, but is not limited to, humiliation, harassment, and therats of punishment or deprivation.
What is Mental Abuse?
400
Who a resident or their representative can file a grievance to.
Who is any staff member?
400

The steps you take if you witness or suspect abuse 

What is

1. Protect the resident

2. Report immediately

400

Examples include:

Hitting, slapping, pinching, kicking

harassment, inappropriate touching, assault

threats of harm, saying things to intentionally frighten a resident

humiliation, harassment, intimidation with therats of punishment or depriving care or posessions


What is abuse?
500
Separation of a resident from other residents or from his/her room or confinement to his/her room (with or without roommates) against the resident's will or the will of the resident's representative.
What is Involuntary Seclusion?
500
These are injuries when the injury was not observed by any person or the course of the injury could not be explained by the resident and if the injury is suspicious because of the extent of the injury or the location of the injury or the number of injuries observed at one particular point in time or the incidence of injuries over time.
What is Injuries of Unknown Origin?
500
True or false a resident or their representative should be retaliated against if they file a greivance
What is False?
500
Reporting suspicion of a crime relating to Elder abuse, neglect, or misappropriation
What is the Elder Justice act?
500

Unexplained bruising, unexplained weight loss, fear for health and safety, unexplained fractures

What are signs of abuse/ neglect?