Which term describes the basic guaranteed protections that allow residents to be informed and make their own health decisions?

• A. Rights
• B. Risk Factor
• C. Role
• D. Rotation

Answer: (A)

Rights are the basic guaranteed protections that let residents be informed and make their own health decisions. They include being told about their condition and treatment in understandable terms, giving or refusing consent, and having privacy and respectful care. In practice for CNAs, this means you explain options clearly, verify understanding, respect a resident’s choices, protect confidentiality, and support the resident’s decisions even when they differ from others. Other terms describe different ideas—risk factor is something that increases health risk, role is a function or position, and rotation is a scheduling concept—so they do not capture the protected, decision-making aspect that rights provide.