The GNA's Essential Checklist:
Is Mrs. Jones OK?
Order# CE637
Presented by Debra Wertheimer, MD
interactive discussion and resident vignettes
20 minutes
$150 purchase; $75 rental
With elderly residents, critical deterioration in health status can occur rapidly. Make sure your staff understand their essential obligation to report changes.
This DVD provides a checklist directing nursing assistants to: always take vital signs; check for changes in physical, functional and emotional status; and to know each resident as a person. This program provides tips on how to check for health deterioration in non-verbal patients as well.
Topics: observation, vital signs
Skill Competency: Observing and Reporting Changes; vital signs
Audience: students in health professional programs, allied health and medicine. Staff development in long-term care, assisted living, and home health aide programs.