Notes And Such Flashcards
Cna responsibilities
Care for basic needs
Check vital signs and nutrition
Signs of a UTI
Smelly or cloudy urine
Incontinent
Can’t hold urine
Ambulatory
Able to walk
Giving care you are not trained to do
Malpractice
Objective
Factual and measurable
Subjective
Opinion
How to communicate with HOH
Get attention Check hearing aids Sit by good ear Speak slow and simple Gestures
Communication with visual impairments
Address by name and touch
Specific directions
Announce when leaving
Communicating with aphasia
Gave and make eye contact
Speak slow, clear, and short
Pause between sentences
Give nonverbal cue
Communicating with disoriented
Eye level and remain eye contact
Make sure they can hear you
One task and question at a time
Repeat patients last works to keep them on track
Diuretic
Water pill that pulls water out of feet into kidneys
Endocrine
Controls hormones
Digestive system
From mouth to rectum
Integumentary system
Skin
Largest organ in body
Atrophy
Absence of muscle tone
Sputum
Spit
Peristalsis
Squeezing of the intestine
Hypo/ hypotension
Low/ low blood pressure
Hyper/ hypertension
High/ high blood pressure
Orthostatic hypertension
Seeing stars
Brady/ bradycardia
Slow/ slow pulse
Tachy/ tachycardia
Fast/ fast pulse
-itis
Inflammation
-emia
Blood
-ectomy
Removal
Aphasia
Can’t express and/or understand written/spoken language
