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You are working in a long-term care center and a surveyor asks you a question. You are unsure of the answer. You worry your response may cause your facility to get in trouble or you could get in trouble for answering incorrectly. How will you respond?
What are some of the issues related to elder abuse?
What is the role of the Nurse Assistant in maintaining resident rights as stated in federal and state regulation?
Describe the key steps involved in the communication process and methods used in communication.
After watching this video compare and contrast effective versus ineffective communication. In your answer describe social and cultural factors influencing communication and emotional reactions to illness and disability. Also, describe communication between the members of the health care team.
Basic Emergency Care
You are caring for a patient in the hospital that has a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). You have just helped him to the bathroom when the patient reports having numbness on his right side. He stumbles as you get him back in the bed and his speech is starting to sound garbled. What are the implications?
Define observation and list the senses used to observe a resident and describe objective and subjective observations.
List 3 examples of objective observations and 3 examples of subjective observations.
Describe the immediate interventions in a medical emergency.
List the causes and signs of choking and discuss the use of abdominal thrusts for relief of obstructed airway.
What is your role as a nurse assistant in an emergency?
Discuss the comfort and safety measures used to lift, turn, move, and position residents in bed. Please give examples.
You are assisting a patient with his range-of-motion exercises; he says he does not feel like doing them today and asks you to finish the exercises for him. What is your response?
Discuss rehabilitation (restorative care) and how it promotes independence and resident potential. In addition, discuss the relationship between a resident's self-esteem and family involvement in care, and the process of documentation and the Nurse Assistant role in care plan meetings.
Discuss the responsibilities of the nurse assistant in promoting resident self-care, including the activities that make up Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Please list common comfort and adaptive devices and explain the purposes of each. Also identify steps to prevent complications from inactivity.
State five conditions necessary for infectious agents to grow
Identify the six parts of the chain of infection
List four lines of defense against infection in the body
What is your role as a nursing assistant in preventing the spread of infection?