4 chambers of the heart - ✔✔✔-RA: receives blood from body tissues
RV: pumps blood to lungs
LA: receives blood from the lungs
LV: pumps blood to all parts of the body
Accident risk factors - ✔✔✔-Age, awareness of surroundings, agitated and aggressive
behaviors, vision loss, hearing loss, impaired smell and touch, impaired mobility, drugs
Afternoon care - ✔✔✔-Routine care that occurs between lunch and the evening meal in a
facility. Care includes preparing the person for naps or activities, assisting with ROM,
straightening the bed and unit
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - ✔✔✔-a condition in which the macula degenerates,
gradually causing central vision loss
Aphasia - ✔✔✔-Loss of the ability to use or understand language
Apraxia - ✔✔✔-Person knows what to say but can't use speech muscles for understandable
speech. The brain can't coordinate muscles to make words
Blood-borne pathogen standard - ✔✔✔-Intended to protect the health team from viruses such
as HIV and HBV
Cataract - ✔✔✔-clouding of the lens of the eye
Changes in the circulatory system - ✔✔✔-Heart pumps with less force, heart walls thicken,
arteries narrow and become stiffer, less blood flows through narrow arteries, number of RBC
decreases
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Changes in the musculoskeletal system - ✔✔✔-Muscles atrophy, muscle strength decreases,
bone mass decreases, bones become weak and brittle, vertebrae shorten, gradual loss of height
Changes in the nervous system - ✔✔✔-Brain and spinal cord lose nerve cells, nerve cells send
messages at a slower rate, reflexes slow, shorter memory, reduced sensitivity to pain and touch
Chemotherapy - ✔✔✔-Involves drugs that kill cancer cells
Circulatory system - ✔✔✔-The heart pumps blood & blood brings oxygen to the cells and
carries food to them
Colostomy - ✔✔✔-A surgical opening of the colon (Large intestine)
Comfort and safety measures for turning persons in bed - ✔✔✔-Do not turn the person away
from you with the far bed rail down. Raise the bed rail near you then go to the other side and
turn the person toward you. Position the person in good alignment and use pillows as directed.
Make sure their face is not obstructed by a pillow
Constipation - ✔✔✔-the passage of a hard, dry stool
Define respiration. What is the normal rate and how do you count? - ✔✔✔-Respiration is the
inhalation and exhalation of the lungs. A normal rate is 12-20 respirations per minute. You count
after taking pulse and count a chest and fall and rise as only one respiration
Describe adult and child CPR - ✔✔✔-In adult CPR, two breaths are given for every 30 chest
compressions. The chest is depressed 2 inches
In child and infant CPR, 2 breaths are given for every 30 chest compressions until help arrives.
Then 2 breaths for every 15 compressions. In infants, the chest is depressed 1.5 inches
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Describe COPD - ✔✔✔-Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) involves chronic
bronchitis and emphysema. These disorders interfere with oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange,
they obstruct airflow. It affects alveoli, less air gets into and leaves the lungs
Describe the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 and what does it require? - ✔✔✔-
OBRA is federal law. It requires that CNAs pass a training and competency evaluation
Describe the procedure for collecting a stool specimen - ✔✔✔-Have the person void in the
specimen pan. Return when the person signals or every five minutes. Note color, amount,
consistency, and odor. Collect a specimen. Take from the middle or from any unusual areas. Use
tongue depressor to collect about 2 tablespoons and label the cup. Place the container in a
plastic bag with the biohazard sign. Test specimen if needed
Describe your role in transporting patients to the operating room - ✔✔✔-The person is covered
with a bath blanket, the safety straps are secured and side rails are raised, a pillow may be
placed under the person's head. If you are their nurse then stand at their head
Development - ✔✔✔-Changes in mental, emotional and social function
Developmental tasks of late adulthood - ✔✔✔-Adjusting to decreased strength and loss of
health, adjusting to retirement and reduced income, coping with a partner's death, developing
new friends and relationships, prepare for one's own death
Diarrhea - ✔✔✔-frequent passage of loose, watery stools
Diastole - ✔✔✔-relaxation phase of the heartbeat
Digestive system - ✔✔✔-Removes solid waste from the body