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NURC 1001 EXAM 1 QUESTRIONS & ANSWERS, Exams of Nursing

nourishment of residents in nursing homes include - ✔️✔️assuring each resident receives the correct diet, assisting the resident with meals, filling the residents water pitcher or assisting the resident obtain water and fluids, calculate and record meal percentage on dietary record sheet and assisting residents to and from the dining room what is the current in-service hours for nurse aides in a long term care facility? - ✔️✔️12 hours annually

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nourishment of residents in nursing homes include - ✔️ ✔️ assuring each resident receives the correct diet, assisting the resident with meals, filling the residents water pitcher or assisting the resident obtain water and fluids, calculate and record meal percentage on dietary record sheet and assisting residents to and from the dining room

what is the current in-service hours for nurse aides in a long term care facility? - ✔️ ✔️ 12 hours annually

Ombudsman - ✔️ ✔️ serves as the residents advocate

acute care - ✔️ ✔️ medical attention to immediate problems; sudden and treatable

chronic care - ✔️ ✔️ Care for illnesses of long duration, such as diabetes or emphysema

hospice care - ✔️ ✔️ care provided for the dying in places devoted to those who are terminally ill

terminal care - ✔️ ✔️ medical care of the terminally ill

what are the five rights of delegation? - ✔️ ✔️ 1) right task

  1. right circumstance
  2. right person
  3. right directions and communication
  4. right supervision

unintentional wrong - ✔️ ✔️ the person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner. as a result, a resident or the residents property was harmed.

Malpractice - ✔️ ✔️ Negligence by a professional person

abuse - ✔️ ✔️ the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm, pain or mental anguish; depriving the resident of the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being

neglect - ✔️ ✔️ Failure to provide the person with the goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness

examples of neglect - ✔️ ✔️ leaving resident lying or sitting in urine or feces; failing to answer signal lights; failing to provide food, clothing, hygiene

neglect is a form of - ✔️ ✔️ abuse

Misappropriation of residents property - ✔️ ✔️ depriving defrauding or otherwise obtaining the real or personal property of a residents property by any means prohibited by the law

defamation - ✔️ ✔️ making an untrue statement that causes injury to the reputation of another person

slander - ✔️ ✔️ words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another

libel - ✔️ ✔️ written untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation

assault - ✔️ ✔️ threatening or attempting to touch a person without the person's consent causing a person to fear them

battery - ✔️ ✔️ Touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - ✔️ ✔️ protects the privacy and security of a residents health information

failure to comply with HIPAA results in - ✔️ ✔️ fines, penalties, and criminal action

listening - ✔️ ✔️ means to focus on verbal and nonverbal communication, using sight, hearing, touch and smell

paraphrasing - ✔️ ✔️ restating the persons message in your own words

direct questions - ✔️ ✔️ focus on certain information... have yes or no answers

open-ended questions - ✔️ ✔️ lead or invite the person to share thoughts, feelings or ideas

clarifying - ✔️ ✔️ let's you make sure you understand the message- ask the person to repeat or restate the message

focusing - ✔️ ✔️ deals with a certain topic- useful when person rambles

silence - ✔️ ✔️ powerful technique; use when person is sad, needs time to think, reorganize thoughts, make decisions, etc.

factors which block effective communicatikn - ✔️ ✔️ familys feelings of guilt or grief related to admission of resident; residents feelings of anger or grief related to admission; the resident or family's concerns related to money, provision of care, the future, separation from loved ones, etc

behaviors which act as barriers - ✔️ ✔️ giving pat answers as "don't worry"

Cataracts - ✔️ ✔️ lens of the eye becomes cloudy

glaucoma - ✔️ ✔️ fluid pressure builds up in the eye and optic is damaged- major cause of vision loss

stroke - ✔️ ✔️ may remove part of field of vision

age-related macular degeneration - ✔️ ✔️ blurs central vision. AMD causes a blind spot in the center of vision

otitis media - ✔️ ✔️ infection of the middle ear

Meniere's disease - ✔️ ✔️ disease of inner ear which results in dizziness, ringing in the ear, temporary hearing loss, feeling of pressure in ear

presbycusis - ✔️ ✔️ age related change results in loss of hearing of high-pitched sounds

cerumen impaction - ✔️ ✔️ ear wax in ear builds up and packs external auditory canal

aphasia - ✔️ ✔️ total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language; resulting from damage to speech center of brain

expressive aphasia - ✔️ ✔️ difficulty expressing or sending out thoughts

Receptive apahasia - ✔️ ✔️ difficulty understanding language

expressive-receptive aphasia - ✔️ ✔️ difficulty expressing or sending out thoughts and difficulty understanding language; also known as global aphasia

when talking to a confused resident, ask resident - ✔️ ✔️ one thing at a time or do one thing at a time

nurse aide registry - ✔️ ✔️ tracks individuals who have successfully state tested for employment in LTCFs; maintains record of those NAs who had finding of abuse, neglect, or misappropriation of funds

role of nurse aide - ✔️ ✔️ spends most time with residents, works under the delegation and supervision of a licensed nurse, informs the nurse of any changes in the resident's condition, follows a plan of care developed by the interdisciplinary team for each resident

assisted living residence - ✔️ ✔️ provides housing, personal care, support services, health care and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with activities

case management - ✔️ ✔️ a nursing case manager coordinates the care of specific groups of patients from admission through discharge and into the home or long term care setting

functional nursing - ✔️ ✔️ focuses on tasks and jobs; each nursing team member had certain tasks and jobs to do

health team - ✔️ ✔️ the many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care; interdisciplinary health care team

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - ✔️ ✔️ a nurse who has completed a practical nursing program and has passed a licensing test; called licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in California and Texas

nursing assistant - ✔️ ✔️ a person who has passed a nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program; performs delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse

nursing team - ✔️ ✔️ those who provide nursing care- RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and nursing assistants

Patient focused care - ✔️ ✔️ A nursing care pattern; services are moved from departments to the bedside

primary nursing - ✔️ ✔️ a nursing care pattern; an RN is responsible for the person's total care

Registered Nurse (RN) - ✔️ ✔️ A nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test

surveyor - ✔️ ✔️ a person who collects information by observing and asking questions

team nursing - ✔️ ✔️ a nursing care pattern; a team of nursing staff is led by an RN who decides the amount and kind of care each person needs

boundary crossing - ✔️ ✔️ a brief act of behavior of being over involved with the person; the intent of the act or behavior is to meet the persons needs

boundary sign - ✔️ ✔️ acts, behaviors or thoughts that warn of a boundary crossing or boundary violation

boundary violation - ✔️ ✔️ an act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's

Child Abuse and Neglect - ✔️ ✔️ the intentional harm of mistreatment of a child under 18 years old; it involves any recent act or failure to act on the part of a patient or caregiver; it results in deaths, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploration; and it presents a likely or immediate risk for harm

civil law - ✔️ ✔️ laws concerned with the relationships between people

code of ethics - ✔️ ✔️ rules, or standards of conduct, for group members to follow

crime - ✔️ ✔️ an act that violates a criminal law

criminal law - ✔️ ✔️ laws concerned with offenses against the public and society in general

Defamation - ✔️ ✔️ Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person

elder abuse - ✔️ ✔️ any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person to an older adult

ethics - ✔️ ✔️ knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct

false imprisonment - ✔️ ✔️ unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement

fraud - ✔️ ✔️ saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person

intimate partner violence - ✔️ ✔️ physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse

invasion of privacy - ✔️ ✔️ violating a persons right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs exposed or made public without giving consent

law - ✔️ ✔️ a rule of conduct made by a government body

libel - ✔️ ✔️ making false statements in print, in writing (including email and text message), through pictures or drawings, through broadcast (radio, TV or video), posted online on websites, or through video sites and social media sites

Malpractice - ✔️ ✔️ Negligence by a professional person

neglect - ✔️ ✔️ the failure of responsible persons to provide food, shelter, health care, or protection for a vulnerable elder

Negligence - ✔️ ✔️ an unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and a person or the persons property was harmed

professional boundary - ✔️ ✔️ that which separates helpful behaviors from behaviors that are not helpful

professional sexual misconduct - ✔️ ✔️ an act, behavior or comment that is sexual in nature

protected health information - ✔️ ✔️ identifying information about the person's health care that is maintained or sent in any form

self-neglect - ✔️ ✔️ a person's behaviors and way of living that threaten his or her health, safety, and well-being

slander - ✔️ ✔️ making false statements through the spoken word, sounds, sign language, or gestures

standard of care - ✔️ ✔️ the skills, care, and judgments required by a health team member under similar conditions

tort - ✔️ ✔️ a wrong committed against a person or the person's property

vulnerable adult - ✔️ ✔️ a person 18 years old or older who has a disability or condition that makes him or her at risk to be wounded, attacked or damaged

will - ✔️ ✔️ a legal document of how a person wants property distributed after death

antibiotic - ✔️ ✔️ a drug that kills certain microbes that cause infection

antisepsis - ✔️ ✔️ the processes, procedures and chemical treatments that kill microbes or prevent them from causing an infection; anti means against and sepsis means infection

asepsis - ✔️ ✔️ the absence of disease-producing microbes