Best Approach
Resident is assisted to a dinner table and wheelchair brakes are set. Resident is able to unlock wheelchair and go to their room once done with dinner.
Not a restraint
Resident asks to go outside of the building. Resident is not a elopement risks.
Self-determination
Nurse is giving meds to a resident and the family friend visiting asks if they are taking medication for diabetes and heart failure.
How should you respond?
CNA - refer family friend to the nurse
Nurse - refer family friend to the responsible party listed in the chart.
CNA is taking resident from bathroom to bed in shower chair and the door is not closed all the way
Dignity and Respect
Residents have the right to refuse any medications
True
Resident is seated in their wheelchair and waves you down to ask a question. You approach and stand beside them with your arms folded.
Is this the best approach? If not, what should be done differently?
Approach with uncrossed arms and get on eye level with the resident in their wheelchair.
A resident known to wander is put into bed by CNA and the wheelchair is removed from the room to encourage the resident to stay in bed.
Restraint
A resident has a visitor coming after breakfast. The CNA assists the resident into their wheelchair but does not assist with oral care or changing residents shirt, which has stains from breakfast.
Dignity & respect
You call a family member on speaker phone to discuss a resident refusing care.
HIPAA violation
A resident who was a former overnight worker comes out of his room multiple times at night and sits near the nurses station. His nurse gives him sleeping meds and puts him back in bed.
Chemical restraint. Meds were given for nurses convenience.
Information and communication.
Residents have the right to make phone calls in private.
Residents have the right to engage in consensual, intimate relationships with each other if they have similar levels of cognition?
True