Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basic Chapter 5, 6, & 7 Exam Questions and Answers
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Nursing Assistant Care
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Nursing Assistant Care
Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The
Basic Chapter 5, 6, & 7 Exam Questions
and Answers
Alzheimer Disease - tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in
the brain
catastrophic reaction - when a person with AD overreacts to something
sundowning - when a person gets restless and agitat...
Alzheimer Disease - ✔✔tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in
the brain
catastrophic reaction - ✔✔when a person with AD overreacts to something
sundowning - ✔✔when a person gets restless and agitated in the late
afternoon, evening, or night
elopes - ✔✔if a resident wanders away from the protected area
perseverating - ✔✔repeats a word, phrase, question, or activity over and
over
Pillaging - ✔✔taking things that belong to someone else
Validating - ✔✔giving value to or approving
Validation therapy - ✔✔letting residents believe they live in the past to in
imaginer circumstances and not arguing or correcting them
Pressure Points - ✔✔areas of the body that bear much if it weight
, located at bony prominences
Body Prominences - ✔✔areas of the body where the bone lies close to the
skin
these areas are at a much higher risk for skin breakdown
every 2 hours - ✔✔how often should you reposition immobile residents
every 15 minutes - ✔✔how often should you reposition residents in a
wheelchair
Foot Drop - ✔✔a weakness of muscles in the feet and ankles that causes
problems with the ability to flex the ankles and walk normally
from the inner aspect to outer aspect - ✔✔how should you wash the eye
always wash distal to the body - ✔✔how should you wash/wipe/clean the
resident's body
from front to back - ✔✔how should a staff clean a female resident perineum
area
Pediculosis - ✔✔an infestation of lice
involved/weake side - ✔✔another name for the affect side or "bad side"
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