The Nursing Assistant In Long-Term Care Flashcards
Long-term care is offered in what?
It is offered in skilled nursing facilities
Residents in _____ are usually more independent and do not need skilled care.
Assisted living facilities.
Which of the following types of healthcare is generally for people who will die in six months or less?
Hospice care
____ is a federal health insurance program for people who are 65 years of age or older or people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities.
Medicare
____ is a medical assistance program for people have low income or disabilities.
Medicaid
Medicare will pay for
Care that it determines to be medically necessary.
The amount that Medicare and Medicaid will pay long-term care facilities for services is based on what?
The residents need upon admission and throughout his stay.
The residents with the longest average stay in long-term facilities are what?
Residents who are developmentally disabled.
A disorder in which a person has a serious loss of mental abilities, including the ability to think, remember, and reason, is known as what?
Dementia
Which of the following is a typical task that nursing assistance to perform?
Bathing a resident
Which of the following is a task that nursing assistants do not perform?
Inserting tubes into a resident’s body
Professionalism is related to what?
How a person behaves at work
A resident has purchased a special gift for her nursing assistant. Which of the following would be the best response by the nursing assistant?
The NA should refuse the gift but thank the resident for thinking of her.
One example of professional behavior by nursing assistants when working with residents is what?
Keeping all residents information confidential
Which of the following is the best example of how a nursing assistant is demonstrating that she is dependable?
The nursing assistant avoids excessive absences from work.
