Hartman's CNA Chapter 1-5 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Accountable - Answer answerable for one's actions activities of daily living (ADLs) - Answer personal daily care task, including bathing, skin, nail, and hair care, walking, eating and drinking, mouth care, dressing, transferring, and toileting acute care - Answer 24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers adaptive devices - Answer special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLs; also called assistive devices. adult day services - Answer care for people who need some assistance or supervision during certain hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given animal-assisted therapy (AAT) - Answer the practice of bringing pets into a facility or home to provide stimulation and companionship assistive devices - Answer Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLS; also called adaptive devices. care team - Answer the group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care chain of command - Answer the order of authority within a facility charge nurse (nurse-in-charge) - Answer a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers chronic - Answer long-term or long-lasting cite - Answer in a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey conscientious - Answer guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled continuity of care - Answer an ongoing coordination of a resident's care over time, during which the care team is regularly exchanging information and is working toward shared goals courteous - Answer polite, kind, considerate Delegation - Answer transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task Dementia - Answer the serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating diagnosis - Answer the identification of disease or other problems by its signs and symptoms and from the results of different tests empathetic - Answer identifying with and understanding another's feelings first impression - Answer a way of classifying or categorizing someone or something at the first meeting functional nursing - Answer method of care that involves assigning specific tasks to each team member holistic care - Answer care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs home health care - Answer care that takes place in a person's home hospice care - Answer care for people who have approximately six months or less to live; care is available until the person dies inter-generational care - Answer mixing elderly and children in the same care setting Joint Commission - Answer a not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits different types of healthcare facilities length of stay - Answer the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility liability - Answer a legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming someone else Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or licensed vocational nurse (LVN) - Answer a licensed nurse who administers medications, gives treatment, and may supervise daily care of residents long term care - Answer 24-hour care provided for people with ongoing conditions who are generally unable to manage their ADLs Medicaid - Answer a medical assistance program for low-income people, as well as for people with disabilities Medicare - Answer the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, are disabled or are ill and cannot work Medicare Part A - Answer helps pay for care in a hospital or skilled nursing facility or for care from a home health agency or hospice Medicare Part B - Answer helps pay for doctor services and other medical services and equipment Medicare Part C - Answer combines insurance Medicare—Part D - Answer helps pay for medications prescribed for treatment Nursing Assistant (NA) - Answer person who performs assigned nursing tasks and gives personal care outpatient care - Answer care given to people who have had treatments, procedures, or surgery and do not require an overnight stay in a hospital or other care facility person-centered care - Answer a type of care that places the emphasis on the person needing care and his or her individuality and capabilities policy - Answer a course of action to be followed primary nursing - Answer a method of care in which the registered nurse gives much of the daily care to residents procedure - Answer a method or way of doing something professional - Answer the act of behaving properly for a certain job Registered Nurse (RN) - Answer a licensed nurse who assesses residents, creates the care plan, monitors progress, provides skilled nursing care, gives treatments and medications, and supervises the care given by nursing assistants and other members of the care team Rehibilitation - Answer a program of care given by a specialist or a team of specialists to restore or improve function after an illness or injury resident - Answer a person living in a long-term care facility sandwich generation - Answer people responsible for the care of both their children and aging relatives skilled care - Answer medically necessary care given by a nurse or therapist subacute care - Answer care for an illness or 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-term) illness team leader - Answer a nurse in charge of a group of residents for one shift of duty team nursing - Answer a method of care in which a nurse acts as a leader of a group of people giving care trustworthy - Answer deserving the trust of others abuse - Answer purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, emotional , or financial pain or injury to a person active neglect - Answer purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person advance directives - Answer legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves Assault - Answer a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed Battery - Answer the intentional touching of a person without his or her consent Civil Law - Answer private law; law between individuals Criminal Law - Answer public law; related to committing a crime against the community Defamation - Answer any statement (written or oral) that is not true and injures a person's reputation DNR (do not resuscitate) - Answer an order that tells medical professionals not to perform CPR in the event of a cardiac or respiratory event domestic violence - Answer physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members durable power of attorney for health care - Answer a legal document that appoints someone to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so Ethics - Answer the knowledge of right and wrong; standards of conduct ettiquette - Answer the code of proper behavior and courtesy in a certain setting False Imprisonment - Answer the unlawful restraint of someone which affects the person's freedom of movement; includes both the threat of being physically restrained and actually being physically restrained. financial abuse - Answer the improper or illegal use of a person's money, possessions, property, or other assets HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - Answer a federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients' health information invasion of privacy - Answer A violation of the right to be left alone and the right to control personal information. involuntary seclusion - Answer the separation of a person from others against the person's will laws - Answer rules set by the government to help protect the public libel - Answer defamation in written form