Chapter 2: Person's Rights and Chapter 3: The Nursing Assistant

Question 1

To answer to one’s self and others about one’schoices, decisions, and actions

Answer 1

Accountable

Question 2

Official recognition by a state that standardsor requirements have been met

Answer 2

Certification

Question 3

To authorize or direct a nursing assistant toperform a nursing task

Answer 3

Delegate

Question 4

The process a nurse usesto direct a nursingassistant to perform a nursing task; allowing a nursingassistant to perform a nursing task that is beyond thenursing assistant’s usual role and not routinely done by thenursing assistant

Answer 4

Delegation

Question 5

A state recognizes the certificate, license, or registration issued by another state; reciprocity or equivalency

Answer 5

Endorsement

Question 6

A document that describes what the agency expects you to do

Answer 6

Job description

Question 7

Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, skill, or activity

Answer 7

Nursing task

Question 8

Someone who acts or speaks on behalf ofanother person

Answer 8

Advocate

Question 9

Separating a person from othersagainst the person’s will, keeping the person to a certainarea, or keeping the person away from his or her roomwithout consent

Answer 9

Involuntary seclusion

Question 10

Someone who supports or promotes theneeds and interests of another person

Answer 10

Ombudsman

Question 11

Someone with the legal right to act on thepatient’s or resident’s behalf when the person cannot do soalone

Answer 11

Representative

Question 12

The care provided to maintain or restore health,improve function, or relieve symptoms

Answer 12

Treatment