INFECTION CONTROL
The minimum number of seconds you must vigorously rub your hands together when using soap and water or alcohol-based sanitizer.
What is 20 seconds?
The person titled as the abuse coordinator at Stonegate.
Under F-Tag 686 (Pressure Ulcers), this is the minimum, standard time-interval required for turning and repositioning a bed-bound resident to protect their skin.
What is every 2 hours?
In the standard healthcare fire safety protocol acronym RACE, the letters 'R' and 'C' stand for these crucial actions.
What are Remove (or Rescue) and Confine (or Contain)?
When a resident with dementia exhibits increased confusion, anxiety, or agitation specifically in the late afternoon or early evening, it is known by this term.
What is sundowning (or sunsetting)?
According to the standard PPE removal sequence, these two items must always be taken off first before removing your face shield/goggles and mask.
What are gown and gloves?
If an allegation of abuse is made and it results in serious bodily injury, federal law mandates that it must be reported to the state agency within this strict time limit.
What is 2 hours? (Note: If it does not involve serious bodily injury, the limit is 24 hours).
Under F-Tag 550, this core concept requires staff to treat residents with respect, preserve their individuality, and assist them in maintaining a well-groomed appearance.
What is Resident Dignity?
To prevent chemical accidents and cross-contamination, all housekeeping carts must be kept in this condition whenever a staff member steps away, even for a moment.
What is locked?
When a resident with dementia experiences a delusion (e.g., insisting they must go home to cook dinner for their kids), staff should avoid arguing and instead use this communication technique.
What is validation therapy (or redirection)?
This type of enhanced precaution requires staff to wear gowns and gloves for high-contact care activities (like dressing or bathing) with residents who have chronic, multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs), even if no active infection is present.
What are Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP)?
Taking a picture or video of a resident in a compromising situation (such as during personal care) and sharing it violates their dignity and is cited under this form of abuse.
What is mental or emotional abuse?
F-Tag 812 covers Food Procurement and Store. Surveyors tracking this tag will inspect the kitchen refrigerator to ensure all opened leftovers are labeled with these two pieces of information.
What are the item name and expiration date (or discard date)?
To prevent severe scalding burns to elderly skin, CMS mandates that water temperatures at resident sinks and showers must remain strictly within this Fahrenheit range.
What is 100°F to 120°F?
Before using any PRN psychotropic or sedative medication to manage an agitated dementia resident, staff must first attempt and document these types of interventions.
What are non-pharmacological interventions?
This is the specific color-coded container where staff must immediately discard disposable razors, blood sugar lancets, and contaminated needles.
What is the red sharps container?
Depriving a resident of goods or services necessary to maintain their health and avoid physical harm or mental illness is classified as this type of violation.
What is neglect?
F-Tag 677 outlines Activities of Daily Living. If a resident shows a functional decline, the facility must immediately provide services to improve it or prove that the decline was this.
What is clinically unavoidable?
To ensure backup power systems are fully functional during a major blackout, CMS regulations require the facility to test its emergency generator under load this often.
What is monthly (once a month)?
Under F-Tag 744, if a resident with dementia routinely wanders into other residents' rooms, the facility must implement an individualized plan to keep them safe without doing this, which violates their rights.
What is restricting their movement (or using physical/chemical restraints)?
A CNA is observed moving from a dirty task to a clean task on a resident without changing gloves or washing hands—an omission that surveyors frequently cite at this most severe, life-threatening level.
What is Immediate Jeopardy (IJ)?
A staff member learns about a resident abuse allegation but waits 4 hours until the end of their shift to report it to leadership, triggering an automatic IJ citation for failing to meet this reporting timeframe.
What is immediate reporting?
F-Tag 759 monitors medication administration safety. A facility will fail its inspection if its calculated medication error rate hits or exceeds this percentage.
What is 5%?
If a chemical cleaner accidentally splashes into an employee's eye, staff must look in this federally mandated binder to find immediate first-aid and cleanup instructions.
What is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) binder?
This specific, irreversible neurodegenerative disease is the most common cause of dementia in long-term care residents, heavily audited by surveyors for person-centered care plans.
What is Alzheimer's disease?