Vobabulary
Terms
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- Acute Illness
- Sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover.
- Assisted Living Residence
- provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting.
- Case Management
- a nursing care pattern; a case manager (an RN) coordinates a person's care from admission through discharge and into the home setting.
- Chronic Illness
- an ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; the illness can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment.
- Functional Nursing
- a nursing care pattern focusing on tasks and jobs; each nursing team member has certain tasks and jobs to do.
- Health Team
- the many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care; interdiscliplinary health care team.
- Hospice
- a health care agency or program for persons who are dying.
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- a nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test; also called a licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in some states.
- Nursing Assistant
- a person who has passed a nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program; performs delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
- Nursing Team
- those who provide care - RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and nursing assistants
- Patient-Focused Care
- a nursing care pattern; services are moved from the departments to the bedside.
- Primary Nursing
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a nursing care pattern; an RN is responsible for the person's total care.
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- a nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test.
- Team Nursing
- a nursing care pattern; a team of nursing staff is led by an RN who decides the amount and kind of care each person needs.
- Terminal Illness
- an illness or injury for which there is no reasonable expectation of recovery.
- CMG
- Case Mix Group
- DON
- Director of Nursing
- DRG
-
Diagnosis-Related Group
- HHRG
- Home Health Resource Group
- HMO
- Health Maintenance Organization
- LPN
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- LVN
- Licensed Vocational Nurse
- NATCEP
- Nursing Assistant Training and Competency Evaluation Program
- PPO
- Preferred Provider Organization
- RN
- Registered Nurse
- RUG
- Resource Utilization Group
- SNF
- Skilled Nursing Facility
- Accountable
- being responsible for one's actions and the actions of others who performed the delegated tasks; answering questions about and explaining one's actions and the actions of others.
- Delegate
- to authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation.
- Job Description
- a document that describes what the agency expects you to do.
- Nursing Task
- nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does not require an RN's professional knowledge or judgment.
- Responsibility
- the duty or obligation to perform some act or function.
- CNA
- Certified Nursing Assistant; Certified Nurse Aide
- EMT
- Emergency Medical Technician
- IV
- intravenous infusion; intravenous
- LNA
- Licensed Nurse Assistant
- MLT
- Medical Laboratory Technician
- OBRA
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
- RNA
- Registered Nurse Aide
- Abuse
- the intentional mistreatment or harm of another person.
- Assault
- intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without the person's consent.
- Battery
- touching a person's body without his/her consent
- Boundary Crossing
- a brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone.
- Boundary Sign
- an act, behavior, or thought that warns of a boundary crossing or violation.
- Boundary Violation
- an act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's needs.
- Civil law
- laws concerned with relationships between people.
- Crime
- an act that violates criminal law.
- Criminal Law
- laws concerned with offenses against the public and safety in general.
- Defamation
- injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person.
- Ethics
- knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct.
- False Imprisonment
- unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement.
- Fraud
- saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person.
- Invasion of Privacy
- violating a person's right not to have his/her name, photo, or private affairs exposed or made public without giving consent.
- Law
- a rule of conduct made by a government body.
- Libel
- making false statements in print, writing, or through pictures or drawings.
- Malpractice
- negligence by a professional person.
- Neglect
- failure to provide the person with the goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness.
- Negligence
- an unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and a person or the person's property was harmed.
- Professional Boundary
- that which separates helpful behaviors from behaviors that are not helpful.
- Professional Sexual Misconduct
- an act, behavior, or comment that is sexual in nature.
- Protected Health Information
- identifying information and information about the person's health care that is maintained or sent in any form (paper, electronic, oral).
- Self-Neglect
- a person's behaviors that put him/her at high risk for harm; health and safety are threatened.
- Slander
- making false statements orally.
- Standard of Care
- the skills, care, and judgments required by a health team member under similar conditions.
- Tort
- a wrong committed against a person or the person's property.
- Vunerable Assault
- a person 18 years old or older who has a disability or condition that makes him/her at risk to be wounded, attacked, or damaged.
- Will
- a legal document of how a person wants property distributed after death.
- ANA
- American Nurses Association
- HIPAA
- Health
- NFLPN
- National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses
- Confidentiality
- trusting others with personal and private information.
- Courtesy
- a polite, considerate, or helpful comment or act.
- Gossip
- to spread rumors or talk about the private matters of others.
- Harassment
- to trouble, torment, offend, or worry a person by one's behavior or comments.
- Preceptor
- a staff member who guides another staff member.
- Professionalism
- following laws, being ethical, having good work ethic, and having the skills to do your work.
- Stress
- the response or change in the body caused by emotional, physical, social, or economical factor.
- Stressor
- the event or factor that causes stress.
- Work Ethic
- behavior in the workplace.
- CEU
- Continuing Education Unit
- GED
- General Education Diploma
- Freedom of Movement
- any change in place or position for the body, or any part of the body, that the person is physically able to control.
- Medical Symptom
- an indication or characteristic of a physical or psychological condition.
- Remove Easily
- the manual method device, material, or equipment used to restrain the person that can be removed intentionally by the person in the same manner it was applied by the staff.
- Restraint
- any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached to or near the person's body that he/she cannot remove easily and which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one's body; a drug that is used as a restriction to manage a person's behavior or restrict the person's freedom of movement and is not a standard treatment or dosage for the person's condition.
- Seclusion
- the involuntary confinement of a person alone in a room or area from which the person is physically prevented from leaving.
- CMS
- Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services
- FDA
- Food and Drug Administration
- JC
- Joint Commission
- Antibiotic
- a drug that kills microbes that cause infection.
- Asepsis
- being free of disease-producing microbes.
- Biohazard Waste
- items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions, and excretions; bio means life and hazardous means dangerous or harmful.
- Carrier
- a human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection.
- Clean Technique
- medical asepsis
- Communicable Diseases
- a disease caused by pathogens that spread easily; a contagious deiease.
- Contagious Disease
- communicable disease
- Contamination
- the process of becoming unclean.
- Disinfection
- the process of destroying pathogens.
- Germicide
- a disinfectant applied to the skin, tissues, or non-living objects.
- Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)
- an infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given; the infection is related to receiving health care.
- Immunity
- protection against a certain disease
- Infection
- a disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body.
- Infection Control
- practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection.
- Medical Asepsis
- practices used to prevent or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from one person or place to another person or place; clean technique.
- Microbe
- a microorganism
- Microorganism
- a small (micro) living plant or animal (organism) seen only with a microscope; a microbe.
- Non-Pathogen
- a microbe that does not usually cause an infection.
- Normal Flora
- microbes that live and grow in a certain area.
- Pathogen
- a microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.
- Reservoir
- the environment in which a microbe lives and grown; host.
- Spore
- a bacterium protected by a hard shell.
- Sterile
- the absence of all microbes
- Sterile Field
- a work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (including spores).
- Sterile Technique
- sterile asepsis
- Sterilization
- the process of destroying all microbes.
- Surgical Asepsis
- the practice that keeps items free of all microbes; sterile technique.
- Vaccination
- giving a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease.
- Vaccine
- a preparation containing dead or weakened microbes.
- AIDS
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- AIIR
- Airborne Infection Isolation Room
- CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- cm
- centimeter
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency
- HAI
- Healthcare-Associated Infection
- HBV
- Hepatitus B Virus
- MDRO
- Multidrug-Resistant Organism
- MSDS
- Material Safety Data Sheet
- MRSA
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
- OPIM
- other Potentially Infectious Materials
- OSHA
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- PPE
- Personal Protective Equipment
- SARS
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- TB
- Tuberculosis
- VRE
- Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus