HARTMAN'S NURSING ASSISTANT
CARE: UNIT 1 - CHAPTERS 1,2,3,4,5
TEST GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Passed in response to reports of poor care and abuse in LTC facilities -Answer-
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
T or F: Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
investigates charges of abuse -Answer-True
Specify how residents must be treated while living in a facility -Answer-Residents'
Rights
the process by which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions
about his or her health care -Answer-Informed Consent
the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm
to a person -Answer-Neglect
the purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person -Answer-
Active Neglect
the unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or
emotional harm to a person -Answer-Passive Neglect
means actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting
in unintended injury -Answer-Negligence
occurs when a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence.
carelessness, or lack of skill -Answer-Malpractice
purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to
someone -Answer-Abuse
a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be
harmed -Answer-Assault
The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent -Answer-Battery
assigned by law as the legal advocate for residents -Answer-Ombudsman
T or F: an ombudsman visits facilities and listens to residents -Answer-True
, law passed to help keep health information private and secure -Answer-HIPAA
legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to
have in the event they are unable to make those decisions themselves -Answer-
Advance Directives
involves the use of words, spoken, or written -Answer-verbal communication
communicating without using words -Answer-nonverbal communication
T or F: Soft shoulder pats are not allowed in health care -Answer-False
referring to different groups of people with varied backgrounds and experiences
living together in the world -Answer-cultural diversity
system of learned beliefs and behaviors that is practiced by a group of people -
Answer-culture
prejudice -Answer-bias
Examples of barriers to communication -Answer-language, hearing, medical jargon
etc
information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells -Answer-
Objective
information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is based on something that
the resident reported, may or may not be true -Answer-subjective information
inability to control the bladder or bowels -Answer-incontinence
skin that is blue or gray -Answer-Cyanotic
T or F: a medical chart is considered a legal document -Answer-True
an accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care -Answer-
incident
the loss of function or ability -Answer-impairment
Ways to communicate with someone hard of hearing -Answer-keep voice pitch low,
directly face the person and be in good lighting
Ways to help someone with vision impairment get around -Answer-proper lighting,
use the face of an imaginary clock to guide, don't move furniture or other objects
from normal place
medical term for a stroke -Answer-Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
paralysis on one side of the body -Answer-hemiplegia
CARE: UNIT 1 - CHAPTERS 1,2,3,4,5
TEST GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Passed in response to reports of poor care and abuse in LTC facilities -Answer-
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
T or F: Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
investigates charges of abuse -Answer-True
Specify how residents must be treated while living in a facility -Answer-Residents'
Rights
the process by which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions
about his or her health care -Answer-Informed Consent
the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm
to a person -Answer-Neglect
the purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person -Answer-
Active Neglect
the unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or
emotional harm to a person -Answer-Passive Neglect
means actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting
in unintended injury -Answer-Negligence
occurs when a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence.
carelessness, or lack of skill -Answer-Malpractice
purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to
someone -Answer-Abuse
a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be
harmed -Answer-Assault
The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent -Answer-Battery
assigned by law as the legal advocate for residents -Answer-Ombudsman
T or F: an ombudsman visits facilities and listens to residents -Answer-True
, law passed to help keep health information private and secure -Answer-HIPAA
legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to
have in the event they are unable to make those decisions themselves -Answer-
Advance Directives
involves the use of words, spoken, or written -Answer-verbal communication
communicating without using words -Answer-nonverbal communication
T or F: Soft shoulder pats are not allowed in health care -Answer-False
referring to different groups of people with varied backgrounds and experiences
living together in the world -Answer-cultural diversity
system of learned beliefs and behaviors that is practiced by a group of people -
Answer-culture
prejudice -Answer-bias
Examples of barriers to communication -Answer-language, hearing, medical jargon
etc
information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells -Answer-
Objective
information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is based on something that
the resident reported, may or may not be true -Answer-subjective information
inability to control the bladder or bowels -Answer-incontinence
skin that is blue or gray -Answer-Cyanotic
T or F: a medical chart is considered a legal document -Answer-True
an accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care -Answer-
incident
the loss of function or ability -Answer-impairment
Ways to communicate with someone hard of hearing -Answer-keep voice pitch low,
directly face the person and be in good lighting
Ways to help someone with vision impairment get around -Answer-proper lighting,
use the face of an imaginary clock to guide, don't move furniture or other objects
from normal place
medical term for a stroke -Answer-Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
paralysis on one side of the body -Answer-hemiplegia
