CHAPTER 1
Skilled Nursing Facilities
How many hours of training does OBRA require for nursing assistants:
at least 75 hours
1:20pm
Hear
Before entering a resident room what is the first thing that you must do
Which of these is a typical task that nursing assistants perform: Administering medications, bathing a resident, changing sterile dressings, giving tube feeding
bathing a resident
Which of the following behaviors promotes Resident's Rights? deciding which clothing a resident should wear if she takes too long to decide herself, letting residents know when they are eating too slowly, providing privacy during all care procedures, Restricting visitors for uncooperative residents
Providing privacy during all care procedures
Convert 9:45 pm to military time
2145
If a resident becomes combative, a nursing assistant should?
Try to find out what triggered the behaviour
Name the supplies needed to do oral care on your resident
tooth paste, tooth brush, emesis basin, barrier for resident, barrier to go on table
Which of the following is a task that nursing assistants do not perform: shaving a resident, inserting tubes into a resident's body, helping a resident with toileting needs, caring for equipment.
Inserting tubes into a resident's body
Which of the following is considered a sign of abuse: missing teeth or hair, ripped clothing, pressure ulcers, unanswered call lights.
pressure ulcers
Information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells
What is a good response by a nursing assistant if a resident is demonstrating inappropriate behaviour;
distract the resident or direct her/him to a private area.
when dressing a resident with an affected arm/leg how do you put on the cloths and how do you take them off.
Put on affected arm first, Take off the unaffected arm first
What does the term empathetic mean?
Identifying with and understanding the feel8ings of others
With whom may a nursing assistant share a resident's health information?
Other care team members
What is the correct abbreviation for nothing by mouth:
NPO
By using the face of a imaginary clock as a guide.
To get a resident up out of the chair or to walk a resident what is the object called that you put around the resident waist
Gait belt
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) was passed as a response to:
Reports of abuse and poor care in long term care facilities
One reason that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was to :
Protect the privacy of health information
What is Subjective Information
information collected from something that residents or their families reports, it may or may not be true
When is it appropriate for a nursing assistant to hit a resident
NEVER
If a patient is vomiting or needs to spit, or is brushing their teeth, what do you give them to spit in