Healthcare Today, The CNA Role, and Communication
A federal-funded insurance plan for older adults and clients with certain disabilities
What is Medicare?
A painful rash that occurs when a person's immune system is suppressed
What is shingles?
A general term that refers to hardening and narrowing of the arteries
What is arteriosclerosis?
The term that refers to decreased strength due to immobility
What is atrophy?
The need to urinate frequently at night
What is nocturia?
Federal governance that regulates resident care and rights in long-term care facilities
What is OBRA?
(Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987)
Two common causes of skin tears
What are friction and shearing?
A term that refers to a physical shortening of the joint ligaments
What is a contracture?
A term that refers to weakness or paralysis on one side of the body (most often associated with CVA)
What is hemiplegia?
Symptoms of this disorder include skin irritation and itching, mental confusion, fatigue, loss of appetite, and functional decline
What is kidney failure?
Two terms that refer to movement of the joint or limb away from and toward the body?
What is abduction and adduction?
A contagious and difficult to treat skin infection that often requires isolation measures
What is MRSA?
A contagious baterial infection with symptoms that may include coughing up blood, weight loss, and night sweats
What is tuberculosis?
The joints most commonly affected by osteoarthritis
What are the weight-bearing joints: lower back, hips, and knees?
(Also commonly affected are the hands and feet)
A disorder that may be relieved with heartburn medications, avoiding laying flat while in bed, or potentially surgery
What is Gastroesophageal Disease (GERD)?
Three characteristics or traits that employers expect in a healthcare employee
What are dependability, promptness, flexibility, problem-solving skills, personal hygiene?
Five potential long-term effects of hyperglycemia
What are slowed wound healing, neuropathy, vision changes or loss, decreased feeling in extremities, kidney failure, delayed fighting response to infection, ulcers (especially in lower extremities), and amputations?
The inability to lie flat due to excess fluid retention, most often from CHF
What is orthopnea?
Name at least 5 complications of decreased mobility
What are pressure injuries, constipation, fecal impaction or bowel obstruction, decreased nutritional and/or fluid intake, decreased muscle strength, contractures, blood clots, incontinence and/or increased risk of urinary tract infection, decreased cardiovascular function, respiratory complications (including pneumonia)
DAILY DOUBLE!!
A process in which is client is connected to a machine that filters waste from the blood and then returns the cleaned blood into the client's circulatory system
What is hemodialysis?
A combination of active listening skills and acknowledgment of the speaker's feelings
What is therapeutic communication?
A disease which symptoms may include bulging eyes
What is Grave's disease?
A serious, life-threatening arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) that requires emergency care
What is ventricular fibrillation?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Symptoms include pain, cramping, and discoloration of the lower legs and may result in stasis ulcers
What is peripheral vascular disease?
A life-threatening condition that occurs when a loop of intestine becomes trapped in the opening of the cavity, resulting in a bowel obstruction
What is an incarcerated hernia?