Long Term Care Flashcards
The number of institutionalized peopl will increase by what percent in our careers?
200-300%
90% of direct services in nursing homes are supplied by whom?
Aides
Federal Regulations for Nursing Homes:
1) Must assist residents in getting routine dental and emergency dental care.
2) Must provide or obtain from an outside resource, the dental care.
3) ASSIST the RESIDENT in:
- Making appointments
- Arranging for transportation
- Refer residents with lost or damaged dentures to a dentist.
The decision to defer tx of nursing home residents depends on what?
Physical and mental contraindications for care, or the resident’s INFORMED choice.
Done for every new resident to a nursing home:
1- Indelibly mark the prosthesis.
2- Evaluate the patient immediately and note if there’s a problem, if they have a prosthesis, mark the prosthesis, and how to clean it.
Have to complete an oral exam on each resident within how much time after NH admission?
30 days
If tx by a dentist is needed, it begins within how many days after the exam?
30
T/F: Only a dentist can do an initial exam within 30 days of admission into the NH.
FALSE.
Where do the dental records stay?
At the NH facility.
When is a health care proxy insufficient?
When the pt can speak for themselves.
