Chapter 3 - The Nursing Assistant

Question 1

Abuse

Answer 1

The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish; depriving the person (or the person’s caregiver) of the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being.

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a persons body without a person’s consent.

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

Touching a persons body without his or her consent

Question 4

Boundary crossing

Answer 4

A brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone

Question 5

Boundary sign

Answer 5

And act, behavior, or thought that warns of a boundary crossing or boundary violation

Question 6

Civil law

Answer 6

Laws concerned with relationships between people

Question 7

Crime

Answer 7

An act that violates a criminal law

Question 8

Criminal law

Answer 8

Laws concerned with offenses against the public in society in general

Question 9

Defamation

Answer 9

Injuring a person’s name or reputation by making false statements to a third person

Question 10

Delegate

Answer 10

To authorize another person to preform a nursing task in a certain situation

Question 11

Elder abuse

Answer 11

Any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by caregiver or any other person to an older adult; the act causes harm or serious risk of harm

Question 12

Ethics

Answer 12

Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct

Question 13

False imprisonment

Answer 13

Unlawful restraint or restriction of a person’s freedom of movement

Question 14

Fraud

Answer 14

Saying or doing something to trick fool or do you see the person

Question 15

Invasion of privacy

Answer 15

Violating a persons right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs exposed or made public without giving consent

Question 16

Job description

Answer 16

A document that describes what the agency expect you to do

Question 17

Law

Answer 17

A rule of conduct made by a government body

Question 18

libel

Answer 18

Making false statements in print, in writing, or through pictures of drawings

Question 19

Malpractice

Answer 19

Negligence by a professional person

Question 20

Neglect

Answer 20

Failure to provide the person with the goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness

Question 21

Negligence

Answer 21

And unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and a person or the person’s property was harmed

Question 22

Nursing task

Answer 22

Nursing care or a nurse nursing function, procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistance when it does not require an RN’s professional knowledge or judgment

Question 23

Professional boundary

Answer 23

That which separates helpful behaviors from behaviors that are not helpful

Question 24

Professional sexual misconduct

Answer 24

And act, behavior, or comment that is sexual in nature

Question 25

Protected health information

Answer 25

Identifying information and information about the persons health care that is maintained or send in any form (paper, electronic, oral)

Question 26

Self neglect

Answer 26

A person’s behaviors and way of living that threaten his or her health, safety, and well-being

Question 27

Slander

Answer 27

Making false statements orally

Question 28

Vulnerable adult

Answer 28

A persons 18 years old or older who has a disability or condition that makes him or her at risk to be wounded, attacked, or damaged

Question 29

Tort

Answer 29

Means wrong. Part of a civil law. A tour is a wrong committed against a person or the person’s properties. Some are unintentional harm was not intended. Some are intentional harm was intended