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Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The
Basics 6th Edition
PPE - correct answer ✔✔equipment that helps protect employees from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with workplace hazards Sterilization - correct answer ✔✔cleaning measure that destroys all microorganisms, including pathogens Disinfection - correct answer ✔✔a process that destroys most, but not all, pathogens; it reduces the pathogen count to a level that is considered not infectious Blood borne pathogens - correct answer ✔✔microorganisms found in human blood, body fluid, draining wounds, and mucous membranes that cause infection and disease in humans MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) - correct answer ✔✔bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) that have developed resistance to the antibiotic methicillin myocardial infarction (MI) - correct answer ✔✔a condition that occurs when the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen because blood vessels are blocked; also called a heart attack Cyanotic - correct answer ✔✔pertaining to a blue or purple discoloration due to deoxygenated blood emesis - correct answer ✔✔the act of vomiting Dyspnea - correct answer ✔✔difficulty breathing causative agent - correct answer ✔✔a pathogenic microorganism that causes disease
susceptible host - correct answer ✔✔an uninfected person who could get sick reservoir - correct answer ✔✔a place where a pathogen lives and multiplies portal of entry - correct answer ✔✔any body opening on an uninfected person that allows pathogens to enter portal of exit - correct answer ✔✔any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to leave mode of transmission - correct answer ✔✔how a pathogen travels long term care - correct answer ✔✔care given in long-term care facilities for people who need 24-hour, skilled care skilled care - correct answer ✔✔medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist chronic conditions - correct answer ✔✔any disease or condition that lasts a long time (usually longer than six months). It usually can't be cured and therefore requires ongoing treatment and management. Examples include arthritis and asthma. diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔medical conditions determined by a doctor Adult day services - correct answer ✔✔care for people who need some help during certain hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given Medicare - correct answer ✔✔the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have certain disabilities or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work.
What is apathy? - correct answer ✔✔Lack of interest, lack of care. What are hallucinations? - correct answer ✔✔False sensory perception; seeing things that are not there. What is anxiety? - correct answer ✔✔Worry, fear, uneasiness about a situation or condition. What is phobia? - correct answer ✔✔Intense, irrational fear of or anxiety about a situation, place or object. What is delusion? - correct answer ✔✔Persistent false belief; a person believing someone is controlling their mind. What are advanced directives? - correct answer ✔✔Legal document that allows people to decide what kind of medical care they want if they are unable to make the decisions themselves. What is a living will? - correct answer ✔✔Outlines the medical care a person wants; takes affect while a person is alive. What is durable power of attorney for healthcare? - correct answer ✔✔Appoints someone to make healthcare decisions. What is DNR? - correct answer ✔✔Do not perform CPR if a person's heart stops beating. Who defined the five stages of grief? - correct answer ✔✔Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. What is Cheyne-Stokes? - correct answer ✔✔Type of respiration's usually seen when a person is dying. Slow, rapid, irregular and apnea periods of breathing.
What are standard precautions? - correct answer ✔✔Using PPE with every individual you will have contact with any body fluids or mucus membranes. What is hearing? - correct answer ✔✔Usually last sense to leave a person's body. What is postmortem care? - correct answer ✔✔Care given to a body after death has occurred. What is palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔Focusing on pain relief, comfort and managing symptoms. What is the nervous system? - correct answer ✔✔CNS, PNS; control and message center for the body. What is the circulatory system? - correct answer ✔✔Provides food, oxygen, hormones to cells; Hypertension, Congestive Heart Failure, ANGINA (chest pain). What is the musculoskeletal system? - correct answer ✔✔Works together to move the body, gives the body its shape, 206 bones. What is the gastrointestinal system? - correct answer ✔✔Starts in the mouth and ends in the anus; digestion, absorption, elimination. What is the integumentary system? - correct answer ✔✔Largest organ, protective covering, made up of layers; skin. What is Type 1 Diabetes? - correct answer ✔✔Insulin dependent diabetes diagnosed in children and young adults. What is Type 2 Diabetes? - correct answer ✔✔Most common form of diabetes that can be modified with diet, exercise and weight loss. What is pre-diabetes? - correct answer ✔✔Elevated glucose levels not high enough for type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
What is proximal? - correct answer ✔✔Closer to the torso. What is lateral? - correct answer ✔✔To the side; either side. confusion - correct answer ✔✔the inability to think clearly, having trouble focusing and may be disoriented cognition - correct answer ✔✔the ability to think logically and clearly cognition impairment - correct answer ✔✔a disorder when a person is unable to think logically and clearly What is delirium? - correct answer ✔✔A severe state of confusion that occurs suddenly. What is dementia? - correct answer ✔✔A disease where a person has a serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, reasoning, remembering etc. What is supine? - correct answer ✔✔A patient laying flat on their back. What is Fowlers? - correct answer ✔✔A patient in a 45-60 degree sitting position. What is lateral? - correct answer ✔✔A patient lying on either side. What is prone? - correct answer ✔✔A patient lying flat on their stomach. What is Sims? - correct answer ✔✔A patient lying on their left side. What is embolism? - correct answer ✔✔An obstruction of a blood vessel usually by a blood clot.
What is pediculosis? - correct answer ✔✔Infestation of lice. What is perineum? - correct answer ✔✔The genital and anal areas of patients. What is dangle? - correct answer ✔✔Allowing the patient to sit up on the side of the bed with legs hanging over. What is aspiration? - correct answer ✔✔The inhalation of food, fluid or foreign material into the lungs. What are pressure injuries? - correct answer ✔✔Injuries resulting from skin deterioration and shearing. What is a stage 1 pressure injury? - correct answer ✔✔Skin is intact but may be red. Redness is not relieved after repositioning patient. What is a stage 2 pressure injury? - correct answer ✔✔Partial skin loss, area may be pink, red and moist, and might look like a blister. What is positioning? - correct answer ✔✔Adjusting residents into positions that promote health and comfort. What is shearing? - correct answer ✔✔Rubbing or friction that results from the skin moving one way and the bone underneath remaining fixed or moving in opposite direction. What is perseveration? - correct answer ✔✔Repeating words, phrases, ques or actions. What is pacing? - correct answer ✔✔Walking back and forth in the same area. What is wandering? - correct answer ✔✔A resident who walks aimlessly around the facility.
Tympanic - correct answer ✔✔What is the ear temperature called? Blended foods into a thick paste - correct answer ✔✔What is a pureed diet? Chopped or blended food that are easier to chew and swallow - correct answer ✔✔What is a mechanical soft diet? Soft in texture and soft or chopped foods - correct answer ✔✔What is a soft diet? Clear juices, broth, gelatin and popsicles - correct answer ✔✔What is a clear liquid diet? All the clear liquid diet plus cream soups, milks and ice cream - correct answer ✔✔What is a full liquid diet? Systolic - correct answer ✔✔What is the top reading of a blood pressure called? Radial pulse, located in the wrist on thumb side - correct answer ✔✔What is the most commonly used pulse? Brachial pulse, located in the bend of the arm - correct answer ✔✔What is the pulse used for blood pressure reading? Diastolic - correct answer ✔✔What is the bottom reading of a blood pressure called? Apical pulse, must be auscultated - correct answer ✔✔What is the pulse of the heart called? Maintaining equal input and output - correct answer ✔✔What is fluid balance? Occurs when a person does not have enough fluid in their body. Can be fatal to babies and elderly - correct answer ✔✔What is dehydration?
The fluid a person consumes (eats or drinks) - correct answer ✔✔What is intake? Includes urine, feces, vomitus - correct answer ✔✔What is output? To urinate - correct answer ✔✔What does void mean?
