PAPER WITH VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ Rehabilitation. Answer: short term care; bring patient back to a
normal state (goal is to send them home)
⩥ Restorative. Answer: long term care (nursing homes), attaining and
maintaining the resident's highest level of functioning; improving quality
of life (not returning home)
⩥ The type and number of staff members is regulated by.... Answer:
Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA)
⩥ What is the team approach?. Answer: team members include nursing
staff (RN, LPN, CNA), physicians, therapists, dietitians, social workers
and activity directors and they all work together to enable residents to
function at their highest level possible
⩥ You will be unable to care for others if.... Answer: you are not taking
care of yourself
⩥ In a SNF, the CNA's direct supervisor is the.... Answer: charge nurse
,⩥ what are ADLs?. Answer: activities of daily living that the CNA
assists with (bathing, eating, mobility, oral hygiene, etc)
⩥ A ... is developed for each resident by the RN. Any HCP provided
with the resident must follow it.. Answer: care plan
⩥ Care plan conferences. Answer: attended by residents and possibly
family. Everything you need to know about the resident and is updated
about every 2 months
⩥ Shift Report. Answer: rounds. documents information about residents
to the incoming shift utilizing the care plan report.
⩥ What does the call button do?. Answer: it is to be answered quickly (1
min) and decreases the residents risk of being incontinent
⩥ What are some things CNA's will not do?. Answer: -pass meds in a
hospital or nursing home
-change wound care dressing (may be asked to assist)
-IV tubing, gastric tubing, or any tubing
⩥ what is the most common wound care to dress for older patients?.
Answer: tail bone
, ⩥ What are the three most important precautions for infection control?.
Answer: universal, standard, and transmission-based
⩥ What are universal precautions?. Answer: approach to treat all human
blood and body fluids as if they were known to be infectious for HIV,
HBV, or other blood born pathogens (how you approach everything with
awareness)
⩥ Standard precautions. Answer: set of infection control practices used
to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with
blood, body, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes (don't mix dirty
and clean, common sense)
⩥ Transmission-based precautions. Answer: recommended by CDC to
prevent spread of certain highly transmissible, known or suspected
infections that cannot be controlled by standard precautions alone
(contact, airborne, droplet)
-will have a sign outside of patients door
⩥ PPE. Answer: personal protective equipment: worn to protect the
healthcare worker (gown, booties, cap, mask/face shield, goggles,
gloves)
⩥ What do standard precautions cover?. Answer: -blood
-body fluids, secretions, excretions