Chapter 8 Work Book

Most common development disorder

Intellectual disability

Intense tantrums, a short attention span, an inability to be empathetic, and an inability to make this type of contact are problems resulting from autism spectrum disorder.

eye

Ability to engage in sexual activity continues unless disease or injury occurs.

true

Physical development in infancy moves from the hands up to the head.

False

Preschool children are too young to know right from wrong.

False

Responses and reflexes quicken as a person ages.

False

Television and movies often present an accurate image of what it is like to grow old.

False

The best way to deal with tantrums is to give the toddler what he wants.

False

Urinary elimination becomes less frequent in older adults.

False

Using cliches is a good way for NAs to comfort residents.

False

Not eating food or eating very little food for a period of time is called

Fasting

Before activities begin, something that NAs assist residents with

Grooming

Immunity weakens as a normal part of aging.

True

Lack of privacy is a major reason for lack of sexual expression in long-term care facilities.

True

Many older adults can active and healthy lives.

True

Older adults have different capabilities depending upon their health.

True

One developmental task that most young adults undertake is to choose an occupation or career.

True

Preadolescences are often easy to get along with and are able to handle more responsibility than they were before.

True

Prejudice against older people is as unfounded and unfair as prejudice against racial, ethnic, or religious groups.

True

Puberty is the stage of growth when secondary sex characteristics, such as body hair, appear.

True

Putting an infant to sleep on its back can reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

True

Residents have the legal right to choose how to express their sexuality.

True

School age children ( 6 to 10 years) develop cognitively and socially.

True

Skin becomes drier and less elastic with age.

True

Tantrums are common among toddlers.

True

The loss of ability to think logically is not a normal change of aging.

True

The nursing assistant should always knock and wait for a response before entering residents' rooms.

True

Cross-dresser

Typically refers to a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with women.

Type of infection that inactivity can result in

Urinary tract

Queer

Used by some people who feel terms such as lesbian and gay are too limiting to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual.

Which of the following is the name of a type of diet in which no animals or animal products are consumed?

Vegan diet

Coming out

A continual process of revealing one's sexual orientation or gender identify to others.

Gender identity

A deeply felt sense of one's gender.

Transgender

A person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex (sex assigned at birth due to anatomy).

Cisgender

A person whose gender identity matches his or her birth sex (sex assigned at birth due to anatomy).

Heterosexual (straight)

A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex.

Gay

A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex.

Bisexual, Bi

A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or a different gender.

Sexual orientation

A person's physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person.

Lesbian

A woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women.

All elderly people have the same sexual behavior and desires.

False

Appetite increases with age.

False

LGBT

Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

LGBTQ

Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

Atheism

Actively denying the existence of any delty or higher power.

Examples of appropriate ways to help residents with their spiritual needs.

1. A resident tells his nursing assistant (NA) that he cannot drink milk with his hamburger due to his religious beliefs. He asks for some water instead. The NA takes the milk away and brings him water. 2. A resident asks an NA to read a passage from his Bible. The NA opens the Bible and begins to read. 3. A resident wants to see a rabbi. The NA calls the rabbi he wants to see. 4. A spiritual leader is visiting with a resident. The NA quietly leaves the room and shuts the door. 5. A resident tells a nursing assistant that she does not believe in God. The NA does believe in God but does not argue with the resident. The NA listen quietly as the resident explains her reasons.

List five community resources to help people who are developmentally disabled.

1. American Association on intellectual and developmental disabilities 2. Autism science foundation 3. National down syndrome congress 4. Special Olympics 5. Spina bifida association

List five community resources available to the elderly.

1. Elder care locator 2. Ombudsman program 3. Alzheimer's Association 4. The national hospice and palliative cure organization 5. Social workers

List five basic physical needs that all humans have.

1. Food and water 2. Protection and shelter 3. Activity 4. Sleep and Rest 5. Comfort, especially freedom from pain

List six psychosocial needs that humans have.

1. Love and affection 2. Acceptance by others 3. Safety and Security 4. Self-reliance and independence in daily living 5. Contact others 6. success and self-esteem

List three examples of dietary restrictions that may be due to religious beliefs.

1. Vegetarianism 2. Veganism, and 3. Not eating pork

As people age, they often become lonely, forgetful, and slow.

False

Something increased by regular activity; also promotes better eating habits

Appetite

By 19 years of age, most young adults have stopped developing physically, psychologically, and socially.

False

Caregivers should encourage infants to stand as soon as they can hold their heads up.

False

Children learn to speak between the ages of 3 and 6.

False

Depression is normal in the elderly.

False

Eating disorders are difficult to deal with but cannot be life-threatening.

False

Elderly people no longer have sexual urges.

False

If a nursing assistant sees a sexual encounter between consenting adult residents, she should ask them to stop and wait until a better time.

False

Ms. Cone has lived with her best friend, Ms. Lawrence, since they graduated from college together. They both dated men throughout their lives but were never married. Ms. Cone has a teenage daughter who was raised in their household.

Extended family

If a person is unable to meet his sexual needs due to a disability, he will no longer have sexual desires.

False

If the NA simply sits quietly and listens when a resident tells her about a problem, the resident will think the NA does not care.

False

Menopause is a condition that occurs in young women when the ovaries begin to secrete hormones.

False

Middle- aged adults usually do not experience any physical changes due to aging.

False

Most adolescents do not fell that peer acceptance is important.

False

Nursing assistants should assume all residents are hetreosexual unless sold otherwise.

False

Nursing assistants should spend all of their time focusing on the residents themselves, not on their families.

False

People who are confined to wheelchairs cannot have intimate relationships.

False

Christianity

Being baptized and receiving communion may be part of this religion's practices.

Hinduism

Believing in karma is part of this religion.

Judaism

Believing that God gave laws through Moses in the form of the Torah is part of this religion.

Agnosticism

Believing that one does not know or cannot know if God exists.

Mrs. Rose had three children with her first husband. She divorced him when their youngest child was two years old. Two years later she remarried, and she and her second husband raised her three children as well as one child from his first marriage.

Blended family

How are families now defined?

By support of one another

Muscle coordination and nerves are affected with this disorder.

Cerebral palsy

A child takes three years from birth to be able to move around, to move around, communicate basic needs, and feed himself.

False

A type of cancer that regular physical activity lessens the risk of

Colon

Developmental disability that causes a small skull, flattened nose, and shorter fingers.

Down Syndrome

Buddhism

Emphasizing meditation and believing that nirvana is the highest spiritual plane a person can reach are part of this religion.

Mr. Potter was married in his twenties. He and his wife moved him with her parents and had three children. Later, when his younger sister was divorced, she also moved in with them.

Extended family

Mr. Barter and Mr. Singer have been in a committed relationship for 15 years. They live with their 10-year old daughter.

Nuclear family

Mrs. Parker was married to her husband for 30 years. They lived together with their two children.

Nuclear family

Federal law requesting that facilities provide an activities program that meets the interests of residents

OBRA

Islam

Praying five times a day facing Mecca and worshiping at mosques are part of this religion's practices.

Mr. Dane's wife died giving birth to their twin girls. Mr. Dane never remarried and raised the girls himself.

Single-parent family

Split spine

Spina bifida

The ability to cope with this is one benefit of regular activity

Stress

Transition

The process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures and medical measures.

A "mid-life crisis" is a period of unrest when a person has an unconscious desire for change and fulfillment of unmet goals.

True

Adolescents may be moody due to changing hormones and body image concerns.

True

By the time a person reaches late adulthood, he must adjust to the effects of aging.

True

Diseases and illnesses and not normal parts of aging.

True

Due to changes they are experiencing adolescents may become depressed and may attempt suicide.

True

Families may seek out nursing assistants because they are the staff members who are closest to residents.

True

From the ages of 6 to 10, children learn to get along with each other.

True

If a nursing assistant encounters a resident being sexually abused, he should take the resident to a safe place and then notify the nurse.

True

If a resident is physically female but identifies as male, the NA should refer to the resident as "he".

True

If a resident or family member comes to a nursing assistant with a problem or need, the NA should try to empathize.

True

If an NA feels he cannot help a resident, the NA should refer him to another qualified member of the care team .

True