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Medication Aide Final Review HARTMAN'S Study Guide 2024/2025
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024[REAL EXAM DUMPS] Thursday, July 25, 2024 6:51 PMMedication Aide Final Review HARTMAN'S
Study Guide 2024/2025
medication aide (MA) - ✔️✔️a healthcare worker, usually first trained as a nursing
assistant, whose main task is administering medications to residents in a long-term
care facility.
long-term care facilities - ✔️✔️a facility in which residents live and are able to receive
24-hour skilled care.
documenting - ✔️✔️keeping a record of care provided.
PRN - ✔️✔️abbreviation meaning as needed.
professional - ✔️✔️having to do with work or a job.
personal - ✔️✔️relating to life outside one's job, such as family, friends, and home life.
professionalism - ✔️✔️the act of behaving properly when working.
person-centered care - ✔️✔️a type of care that places the emphasis on the person
needing care and his or her individuality and capabilities.
confidential - ✔️✔️private.
chain-of-command - ✔️✔️the line of authority within a facility or agency.
conscientious - ✔️✔️guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled.
delegate - ✔️✔️to transfer responsibility to a person for a specific task.
liability - ✔️✔️a legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming
someone else.
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scope of practice - ✔️✔️defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally allowed
to do as permitted by state or federal law.
nursing process - ✔️✔️an approach to providing effective care for a resident on an
ongoing basis; involves assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and
evaluation.
verbal communication - ✔️✔️communication involving the use of spoken or written
words or sounds.
nonverbal communication - ✔️✔️communication without using words.
clichés - ✔️✔️phrases that are used over and over again and do not really mean
anything.
policy - ✔️✔️a course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation
occurs.
procedure - ✔️✔️a method or way of doing something.
ethics - ✔️✔️a knowledge of right and wrong.
law - ✔️✔️a rule set by the government to help people live peacefully and to ensure
safety.
controlled substance - ✔️✔️a drug that is more likely than others to be abused or to
cause addiction.
assessing - ✔️✔️in medication administration, to make a medical determination
about a resident's response to a drug; this is a nurse's or doctor's role.
glucose - ✔️✔️natural sugar.
subcutaneous - ✔️✔️a type of injection given under the skin, in the fat layer above the
muscle.
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insulin - ✔️✔️a hormone that works to move glucose from the blood and into the cells
for energy for the body.
Residents' Rights - ✔️✔️rights related to how residents must be treated while living
in a facility; they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - ✔️✔️a federal law
that requires that health information be kept private and secure and that
organizations take special steps to protect this information.
protected health information (PHI) - ✔️✔️a person's private health information,
which includes name, address, telephone number, social security number, email
address, and medical record number.
abuse - ✔️✔️purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain
or injury to someone.
neglect - ✔️✔️the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or
emotional harm to a person.
mandated reporters - ✔️✔️a person who is legally required to report suspected or
observed abuse or neglect because they have regular contact with vulnerable
populations, such as the elderly in care facilities.
negligence - ✔️✔️an action, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that
results in unintended injury to a person.
malpractice - ✔️✔️injury to a person due to professional misconduct through
negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.
diversion - ✔️✔️removing medications prescribed for a resident for the purpose of
personal use or sale to another person.
fraud - ✔️✔️deception or misrepresentation of truth; in health care this can involve
falsely documenting care.
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