FS Mgmt Exam V

Seniors over 85

The sunbelt states

27 for men and 25 for women

decrease

make a major move every 3 to 5 years

This is a combination of brothers and sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters, and natural parents and stepparents. Children can have one or more stepparents along with natural parents.

The bringing together of interracial, intercultural, and interreligious unions will increase in the years ahead.

Those in which single people, siblings, friends, or lovers choose to live together. This change came about because of the increase in single people and will continue to grow.

decrease

increase

More women

taking care of their parents as well as their children

The Federal Routine Referral Act

Requires hospitals to notify the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO), and tissue and eye banks of all deaths or impending deaths of their patients.

–The time it takes for the family to be contacted can delay the removal of the deceased. 

–If consent is given for a donation, there is extra time and work involved in the embalming (Benefits outweigh the inconvenience)

Organ Procurement Organization

•An OPO is a non-profit organization designated by the federal government to coordinate activities relating to organ retrieval (procurement) in a designated area.

•OPO activities include evaluating potential donors, discussing donation with surviving family members, arranging for surgical removal and transport of donated organs, and educating the public about the need for donation.

An organization that coordinates the activities relating to tissue procurement for transplantation

There is no blood flow or oxygen being delivered to the brain.  When this occurs the brain cells die within minutes.  This cell death is permanent and therefore is not reversible.

BRAIN DEATH

In certain situations, cardiac death

1. Stroke

2. Drug Overdose

3. Head trauma

4. Brain injury death to loss of oxygen

5. Brain tumor without metastasis

6. Brain death is determined through a series of test including the assessment of the individual’s ability to breathe on his/her own and the determination of the lack of blood supply to the brain.

1. When cardiac death occurs, the patient’s heart stops and his/her organs are without oxygen and lose their ability to function. 

2. This person is not able to donate organs, but may donate tissue.

Took effect in 1988.

ž“The purpose of this standard is to establish permissible exposure levels for formaldehyde in the workplace.  This purpose is accomplished by three basic exposure levels.”

žLevel 1 – Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) -- is the 8-hour Time Weighted Average (“TWA”) of .75 parts per million (“ppm”).

ž8-hour Time Weighted Average (“TWA”) of .75 parts per million (“ppm”).

• žLevel 2 - is the 15-minute Short term Exposure Level (“STEL”)
• of 2 ppm.

ž15-minute Short term Exposure Level (“STEL”) of 2 ppm.

žLevel 3 – Action Level (AL) – if the 8-hour TWA is .5 ppm, the employer has exceeded the Action Level and is required to take certain remedial steps

• a.  Monitoring results:
• KEEP FOR 30 YEARS

• žb.  Training Records:
• KEEP FOR 3 YEARS

• žc.  Medical surveillance records:
• KEEP FOR 30 YEARS

• žd.  Respirator fit testing:
• UPDATE YEARLY

Written document identifying task and procedures as well as job classifications where occupational exposure to blood occurs.

a.  Must make hepatitis B vaccine and vaccination series available to employees who have exposure to bloodborne pathogens.

b.  Must be available at no cost to employees.

• Category I  (HIGH RISK)
• -- Embalmers
• -- Removal/first call personnel

• Category II (MODERATE RISK)
• -- Funeral Directors
• -- Housekeeping personnel
• -- Hairstylist/cosmetologist

• Category III (MINIMAL RISK)
• -- Administrative Staff
• -- Clerical Support