Hartman nursing assistant care, the basics chapter Chapter 1,2,3 test review.

What is long term care?

Given to people who need 24 hour skilled care, it is available 24 hours a day and ordered by a doctor and involves a treatment plan. This type of care is given to people who need high level of care for ongoing conditions.

Fracture

Broken bone

Why are elderly people most likely to be harmed when they fall?

Elderly people have fragile bones

What does the acronym RACE mean?

remove anyone in danger

Activate alarm

Contain fire (by closing all doors and the windows)

Extinguish the fire

What is hospice care?

Hospice care is a home for a person who has about six months or less to live. Hospice care also supports families during the process of their Love one passing away.

outpatient care?

Out patient cares usually is for people who have had treatments procedures or surgeries and need short-term skilled care. They do not require an overnight stay in a hospital or other care facility.

acute care?

Acute care is for people who require short term immediate care for illnesses and injuries.

What is the easier way to remember outpatient care and acute care?

Outpatient care is for people who have had treatment procedures or surgeries, acute care is for people who require short-term immediate care for illnesses and injuries.

Why is military time different than regular time?

You add 12 to the hour of regular time

How do you get military time? What would 4 PM be?

You add 12 to the hour and not the minutes! 4 PM would be 16:00

Ombodsman?

The legal advocate for residents.

How can you prevent falls?

Clear walk ways of clutter trash chords and throw rugs, use rugs with nonslip backing, have residents wear non-skid shoes, make sure shoelaces are tied, keep call light close to resident, immediately clean up spilled on the floor, Report loose handrails immediately, improve lighting, lock bed wheels

What is an abrasion?

An injury that rubs off the surface of the skin and it's most common in the bathroom.

What is Posture?

The way a person holds and positions their body.

What is the base of support?

Foundation that supports an object which are the feet.

In base of support, which is more stable?

The wider the support, standing with your feet shoulder apart.

What is mental health?

The normal functioning of emotional And intellectual abilities

Violent or hostile is what type of behavior?

Combative behavior.

What is assisted living?

Assisted living facilities are for people who need some help with daily tasks like showering, eating and dressing.

What is subacute care

For people who need less care than acute but more for Chronic

What is Medicare part A?

Medicare part a pay for care in hospital , skilled nursing facility , home health agency or hospice

What is Medicare part B?

Medicare part B pays for doctor services and other medical services and equipment

What is Medicare part C,

Medicare part c allows for private health insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits

What is Medicare part D?

Medicare party helps pay for medications prescribed for treatment

Who does Medicaid pay for

People who have low income as well as people who have disabilities, funded by the government and the state

How does Medicaid determine Eligibility?

My income and special circumstances

What is charting?

Documenting, noting important information about the resident.

What does an occupational therapist do?

Helps resident learn to adapt to disabilities

What are adaptive devices or assistive

Would occupational therapist use to help residence adapt to disabilities

What is chain of command?

Line of a authority and hopes to make sure residents get proper healthcare

What is care plan?

Individualize for each resident, helps is achieve the goals of care for residents

What is a policy?

A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs

procedure

A procedure is a method

What's an easy way to think about a procedure?

When you go to the doctor and get a procedure done, you go to the doctor to get some type of method done.

What does sympathy mean

Sharing the feelings and difficulties of others

What's an easy way to think of sympathy?

Sympathy and sharing both start with S... Sharing the feelings and difficulties of others

What is tactful?

Showing sensitivity, having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others

What is an easy way to remember tactful?

Tactful, a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others

Conscientious

Guided by sense of right and wrong,

These types people try to do their best.

What are ethics?

Knowledge of right and wrong

OBRA

Provide standardized training of nursing assistant

Cite

Finding a problem through a survey

What are residents rights?

Quality of life,

services and activities to maintain a high-level wellness,

the right to be fully informed about rights and services,

the right to participate in their own care,

the right to make independent choices,

The right to dignity respect and freedom

The right to security and possessions

Right during transfers and discharges

The right to complain

The right to visits

Rights with regard to social services

What is physical abuse?

Any treatment intentional or not that causes harm to a persons body.

What is psychological abuse?

Emotional harm caused by threatening mean scarring humiliating intimidating isolating or insulting, or treating them as a child.

What is verbal abuse?

The use of spoken or written words, pictures or to resent, threaten, embarrass or insult a person

How do you treat a minor burn?

Cool clean water

Signs of shock include

Pale or blush skin

What's the first thing you should do when you see a resident is having a heart attack

Loosen the clothing around the residents neck

What should you always do when a resident is having a seizure?

I know move furniture away to prevent injury to the resident

What should you always do when you see a resident having an insulin reaction?

Give them food that can be rapidly absorbed or a glucose tablet

What is sexual abuse?

Forcing a person to perform or processor be in sexual acts against their will

What is an easy way to remember sexual abuse?

Forcing, make sure it has the word forcing in it. Forcing a person to participate in sexual acts against their will

What is assult

A threat to harm a person!

What is battery?

Touching a person without their consent

What is a easy way to remember battery?

Battery, touching... Battery is touching a person without their consent

Sexual harassment?

Sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile and offensive working environment

Neglect

Failure to provide needed care

Active neglect

Purposeful failure to provide needed care

Easy way to remember active neglect

You're actively doing some thing so you're purposefully doing some thing.

Passive neglect

The unintentional failure to provide need to care

Passive neglect, easy way to think about it

Passive, usually means something good, your heart was probably in the right place but you still failed to provide Medicare.

What is center of gravity?

The center of gravity is a point where the most weight is concentrated

Does a low or a high center of gravity give you more stable base of support?

Low center of gravity.

What is PHI?

Protected health information

Example of PHi

Persons name, address, telephone number, Social Security number, email address and medical record number

What is minimum data set MDS

Guidelines for assessing resident

When do nurses have to complete the minimum data set MDS for each resident

Within 14 days of admission and again each year

Objective information

Based on what a person sees hear , touches or smells

Easy way to remember objective information

The O in objective can also stand for the O in oneself

Subjective information

Is something a person cannot or did not observe

Easier way to remember subjective information

The S in subjective can also be used for someone else

What does root mean

The part of the word that contains the basic meaning

Easy way to remember root

The root of the word,

Route means the part of the word that contains the basic meaning

What is prefix?

Prefix is put in front of the root to change the word into a new word

What is suffix

Suffix is put in the back of the root to create a new word

What does brady mean?

Slow

If the resident cannot hear the nursing assistant or does not hear well

The nursing assistant should face the resident and speak slowly and clearly without shouting, speak in a low voice

What are clichés

Phrases used over and over again that don't mean anything

Avoid responding asking

Why , giving advice, Asking questions that require more than yes and no

If the resident speaks a different language

Speak slowly and clearly, use short messages and use pictures or gestures to communicate

Defense mechanisms are

Unconscious behaviors used to release the tension or cope with stress

What is denial

Rejecting the door or feeling

What is projection

Seeing feelings in others that really are my own

What is displacement

Transferring strong negative feelings to a safer situation, an Employee cannot yell at his boss so he yells at his wife

Repression

Repress, blacking painful thoughts from the mind

Regression

Sounds like regrow, going back to an old unusual immature behavior like screaming like a baby

What is a scald

Burns caused by hot liquids, it takes five seconds or less for a series burn to occur

What is the temperature high drinks are usually served at

160°F to 180°F

What is the first thing people who are choking usually do?

put their hands around their throat

What does conscious mean?

Be mentally alert and being aware of surroundings

How to react to medical emergencies?

Assess the situation, assess the victim.

What is first aid?

Emergency caregiving immediately to an injured person

What does CPR stand for?

Cardio pulmonary resuscitation

What is an obstructed airway

When something is blocking the tube that air enters the lungs

What is a Abdominal thrust?

Attempting to remove an object from the air way of somebody who is choking

Where do your hands go into a abdominal thrust?

Around the residents Waist

What is shock

When organs and tissues do not receive an adequate blood supply

What is another word for heart attack?

Myocardial infraction

what is a myocardial infraction

Heart attack