Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics
Beginning steps for client care - --Knock
and wait for permission to enter
-Introduce yourself as Nurse Aide Student acute care - -24-hour skilled care for short-
-identify the patient by name term illnesses or injuries; generally given in
-wash your hands hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
-Explain procedure and ask for permission
-Provide privacy (cutain, screen, or door)
-Adjust bed to a safe level, usually waist high. subacute care - -care for an illness or
-Lock the bed wheels condition given to people who need less care
than for an acute (sudden onset, short-term)
illness or injury but more than for a chronic (long-
Ending steps for client care - --Return to term) illness
lowest position
-Remove privacy
-Place call light in reach Example of chronic condition - -Heart
-wash your hands disease
-Report any changes in the client to the nurse
-Document procedure
Example of chronic condition - -Dementia
Long Term Care (LTC) - -care given in
long-term care facilities for people who need 24- outpatient care - -Care given for less than
hour skilled care 24 hours for people who have had treatments or
surgery and need short-term skilled care. They
do not require an overnight stay in a hospital or
skilled care - -medically necessary care other care facility
given by a skilled nurse or therapist, it is
available 24 hours a day, and it is ordered by a
doctor and involved a treatment plan Rehabilitation - -Restore or improve
function after an illness or injjury
chronic condition - -any disease or
condition that lasts a long time (usually longer hospice care - -treatment of the terminally
than six months). It usually can't be cured and ill in their own homes, or in special hospital units
therefore requires ongoing treatment and or other facilities, with the goal of helping them to
management. Examples include arthritis and die comfortably, without pain. For people who
asthma. have about 6 months or less to live
Example of chronic condition - -Physical Medicare - -A federal health insurance
disabilities program for persons 65 years of age and older
terminal illness - -a disease or condition Medicaid - -A medical assistance program
that will eventually cause death that pays for health care services for people who
, Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics
cannot afford them. For people who have low scope of practice - -defines the tasks that
income, as well as for people with disabilities. healthcare providers are legally permitted to
perform as allowed by state or federal law
Nursing assistants are not allowed to - -
Insert or remove tubes, give tube feedings, or care plan - -is individualized for each
change sterile dressings resident. It lists the tasks that team members,
including NAs, must preform.
Nursing assistants are part of - -A team of
health professionals policy - -Is a course of action that should
be taken every time a certain situation occurs
assistive or adaptive devices - -special
equipment that helps a person who is ill or procedure - -a method, or way of doing
disabled perform activities of daily living (ex: something
occupational therapy)
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) -
occupational therapist - -assess and plan -Passed in 1987 in response to reports of
for the client to regain ADLs, esp motor skills of poor care and aside in long-term care facilities.
the upper extremities; direct care of occupational
therapy assistants
OBRA requires that the Nursing Aide Training
and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
The chain of command protects employees from - -Set minimum standards for nursing
- -Liability assistant training. NAs must complete at least
100 hours of training
chain of command - -the line of authority
that moves from the top of a hierarchy to the To cite - -Means to find a problem through
lowest level a survey
In continence is - -Not a normal part of Battery - -The intentional touching of a
aging person without his or her consent
transmission-based precautions - -CDC False Imprisonment - -unlawful restraint or
precautions used in patients known or suspected restriction of a person's freedom of movement
to be infected with pathogens that can be
transmitted by airborne, droplet, or contact
routes; used in addition to standard precautions active neglect - -the purposeful failure to
provide needed care, resulting in harm to a
person
Beginning steps for client care - --Knock
and wait for permission to enter
-Introduce yourself as Nurse Aide Student acute care - -24-hour skilled care for short-
-identify the patient by name term illnesses or injuries; generally given in
-wash your hands hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
-Explain procedure and ask for permission
-Provide privacy (cutain, screen, or door)
-Adjust bed to a safe level, usually waist high. subacute care - -care for an illness or
-Lock the bed wheels condition given to people who need less care
than for an acute (sudden onset, short-term)
illness or injury but more than for a chronic (long-
Ending steps for client care - --Return to term) illness
lowest position
-Remove privacy
-Place call light in reach Example of chronic condition - -Heart
-wash your hands disease
-Report any changes in the client to the nurse
-Document procedure
Example of chronic condition - -Dementia
Long Term Care (LTC) - -care given in
long-term care facilities for people who need 24- outpatient care - -Care given for less than
hour skilled care 24 hours for people who have had treatments or
surgery and need short-term skilled care. They
do not require an overnight stay in a hospital or
skilled care - -medically necessary care other care facility
given by a skilled nurse or therapist, it is
available 24 hours a day, and it is ordered by a
doctor and involved a treatment plan Rehabilitation - -Restore or improve
function after an illness or injjury
chronic condition - -any disease or
condition that lasts a long time (usually longer hospice care - -treatment of the terminally
than six months). It usually can't be cured and ill in their own homes, or in special hospital units
therefore requires ongoing treatment and or other facilities, with the goal of helping them to
management. Examples include arthritis and die comfortably, without pain. For people who
asthma. have about 6 months or less to live
Example of chronic condition - -Physical Medicare - -A federal health insurance
disabilities program for persons 65 years of age and older
terminal illness - -a disease or condition Medicaid - -A medical assistance program
that will eventually cause death that pays for health care services for people who
, Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics
cannot afford them. For people who have low scope of practice - -defines the tasks that
income, as well as for people with disabilities. healthcare providers are legally permitted to
perform as allowed by state or federal law
Nursing assistants are not allowed to - -
Insert or remove tubes, give tube feedings, or care plan - -is individualized for each
change sterile dressings resident. It lists the tasks that team members,
including NAs, must preform.
Nursing assistants are part of - -A team of
health professionals policy - -Is a course of action that should
be taken every time a certain situation occurs
assistive or adaptive devices - -special
equipment that helps a person who is ill or procedure - -a method, or way of doing
disabled perform activities of daily living (ex: something
occupational therapy)
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) -
occupational therapist - -assess and plan -Passed in 1987 in response to reports of
for the client to regain ADLs, esp motor skills of poor care and aside in long-term care facilities.
the upper extremities; direct care of occupational
therapy assistants
OBRA requires that the Nursing Aide Training
and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
The chain of command protects employees from - -Set minimum standards for nursing
- -Liability assistant training. NAs must complete at least
100 hours of training
chain of command - -the line of authority
that moves from the top of a hierarchy to the To cite - -Means to find a problem through
lowest level a survey
In continence is - -Not a normal part of Battery - -The intentional touching of a
aging person without his or her consent
transmission-based precautions - -CDC False Imprisonment - -unlawful restraint or
precautions used in patients known or suspected restriction of a person's freedom of movement
to be infected with pathogens that can be
transmitted by airborne, droplet, or contact
routes; used in addition to standard precautions active neglect - -the purposeful failure to
provide needed care, resulting in harm to a
person
