Admission
This type of vital signs is taken upon a resident's admission to a long term care facility.
What are baseline vitals?
This person must be involved in the decision to transfer a resident.
What is the resident?
SDS is an abbreviation for this document that provides important information about chemicals in the work environment and emergency response actions.
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
SDS is an abbreviation for this document that provides important information about chemicals in the work environment and emergency response actions.
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
Standing with the feet in this way can help protect the nursing assistant from injury.
What is shoulder-width apart?
The nursing assistant would use this to obtain the height of a resident who is confined to bed.
What is a tape measure?
The nursing assistant should introduce the resident to these individuals when upon arriving on the unit of transfer?
What are staff and residents?
These type of injuries are associated with restraint use.
What are pressure injuries?
The resident should sit in this position to eat meals safely.
What is upright as possible?
The nursing assistant should carry heavy items in this way.
What is close to the body/center of gravity?
The scale should be balanced at this weight prior to weighing the resident?
What is zero pounds?
This position is used for exams of the breast, chest, or abdomen.
What is the dorsal recumbent position?
The acronym R.A.C.E. stands for ________, ________, ________, and ________.
What is remove/rescue, alarm, confine, extinguish?
The nursing assistant should position his/her knees in this way when assisting the resident.
What is bend the knees?
The nursing assistant will complete this document once the resident is admitted to help ensure the security of the resident's belongings.
What is an inventory list?
This is the role of the nursing assistant during a transfer within the same facility.
What is pack all of the resident's belongings?
In thinking about meal time, the nursing assistant should always confirm the resident's identity when doing this activity.
What is feeding the resident?
The frequency that a nursing assistant should check on a resident in restraints.
What is every 15 minutes?
The nursing assistant should never try to do this when a resident is falling.
What is catch them?
A resident should be oriented to these two pieces of equipment during admission.
What are the call light and bed controls?
The nursing assistant must document these four things when a resident is discharged.
What is date, time, mode of transportation, and accompanying individuals.
A resident with this condition that affects the endocrine system can cause problems with sensation.
What is Diabetes?
These two words describe why oxygen is a potentially dangerous material.
What is combustible and flammable?
These two terms refer to body mechanics.
What is fulcrum and lever?