questions and answers.
1. Emergencies: stay with patient and call for help
2. RACE: remove residents, activate alarm, contain fire, and extinguish
3. Bleeding: apply pressure with a clean dry dressing or cloth while
wearing gloves and call for help
4. Burns: apply a cool moist compress; do not apply grease, ointment, or ice
5. Seizure: keep the patient safe by protecting the head and calling for help,
do not restrain
6. STNA: ADL's, personal care, vital signs
7. RN: coordinates and manages care, develops care plan, medications
8. MD/DO: diagnoses and treats
9. PT: physical exercise, braces, mobility devices, rehabilitation
10. OT: adaptive equipment, modifies environment
11. Speech: communication, swallowing evaluation
12. RD: dietitian plans menu
13. Chain of command: line of authority
14. Policy: overall action to be taken, what to do
15. Procedure: steps to put policy in action, how to do it
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16. Confidentiality: can only share information to those who need to
provide care, privacy is a legal right
17. Care Plan: tells you what to do for patient
18. Care Conference: team plans and reviews patient care
19. MDS: multiple data set, must do within 14 days of admission and yearly
and whenever there is a change in patient
20. Agitation/Combative Behavior: protect yourself but do not hit back, calm
manner and voice, remove triggers
21. DO's for Body Mechanics: lift with your legs, wide base, body straight,
move as a unit, bend knees, items close to body, get help, use gait belt
22. Do Not's for Body Mechanics: lift with your back, feet close together,
twisting motion, reach/stretch, bend waist/back, items far away from body
23. Falls: pull close to the body and slide them to the floor while protecting
their head 24. Choking: do not do abdominal thrust if they are actively
coughing, can speak or breathe
25. Standard Precautions: treat all secretions as though they are infected for
all residents all the time
26. Transmission Precautions: use in addition to standard, depends on
the organism, must wear appropriate PPE (airborne, droplet, contact)
27. Disinfect: remove as many organisms as possible
28. Sterile: destroys ALL organisms
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