cna chapter 1-3
Terms
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- one who provides care
- caregiver
- fair and straight forward
- honesty
- the ability to be trusted or relied upon
- dependability
- careful attention to detail and responsibilities
- conscientiousness
- understanding and awareness of other peoples feelings, thoughts, and situation
- empathy
- the ability to remain calm in a stressful or potentially annoying situation/ take time to understand each patients needs
- patience
- giving assistance w/ an attitude that shows concern for others/sometimes allow patients to show and develop their own capabilities
- helpfulness
- involves the conduct, standards, and qualities that make a worker valuable, efficient, and technically correct
- professionalism
- the ability to see and accept facts or conditions as the are without personal interpretation/do not let your personal feelings interfere
- objectivity
- show genuine interest in your work/optimistic/perform task without complaint
- positive attitude
- supervises other nurses/in charge of the department/floor
- head/charge nurse
- degree with state license
- RN
- completes a one or two year program and passed state test
- LPN
- completes a nursing program same as LPN
- LVN
- gives basic personal care
- nursing assistent
- promote social well-being
- social services
- process of restoring patients w/ disabilities to their highest possible physical, psychological, and social functioning
- rehabilitation
- a range of tasks that state law allows memebers to perform
- scope of practice
- established the minimum federal requirements for nursing assistants working in long term care facilities
- OBRA
- a person receiving health care services
- patient
- a person who lives in a place (in health care, a person who lives in a nursing home)
- resident
- a facility that provides medical or surgical care
- hospital
- a health care facility specializing in rehabilitation
- rehabilitation center
- a facility for the medical treatment of patients or clients
- clinic
- a residential facility that provides care for people with chronice disorders or disabilities or who are unable to care for themselves
- long term care facility
- another name for long term care
- skilled nursing facility
- a unit in a long-term care facility that takes care of patients who are too ill to be in the general population but who have been released from the acute care of the hospital
- subacute care unit
- a health care facility providing extended care for patients needing recuperation
- convalescent home
- a residential complex, usually for the elderly or people with disablities, where residents live in their own units but where additional health care services are provided as necessary
- assisted-living facility
- a center that attends to the needs of adult (usually elderly) clients during the day
- adult day-care center
- a home that serves as a residence for several people with disabilities, mental retardation, or mental illness
- group home
- health care funding for people over 65 and for certain disabled person
- medicare
- health care funding for the poor
- medicaid
- a group health plan that provides care from a pool of providers and facilities
- managed care
- an organization that provides full health care to a group of subscribers in a certain geographic area
- HMO
- a group health plan where listed providers charge members of the plan lower than normal rates
- PPO
- a set of guidelines for patients and health care providers produced by the American Hospital Association
- Patients Bill of Rights
- unable to function fully
- incapacitated
- a violation of civil law that occurs when a patient is not protected from unwanted visitors or from unwanted release of confidential information
- invasion of privacy
- secret; containing private information
- confidential
- a statement developed by the federal government as part of OBRA, setting forth the rights of people who reside in long-term care facilities
- Residents Bill of Rights
- the power to select
- choice
- an unsatisfactory condition or situation about which a formal complaint is made
- grievance
- a person whose role it is to investigate complaints and issue findings about those complaints
- ombudsman
- the body of law concerned with crimes
- criminal laws
- the body of law covering individual rights and relationships among members of society
- civil laws
- harming peoples reputations by writing or saying untrue things about them
- defamation
- a violent or threatening physical or verbal attack
- assault
- touching another's body without the person's consent
- battery
- the action has been explained and that the patient understands and has agreed to it
- informed consent
- when a trained care provider unintentionally cause harm by failing to perfrom in a reasonable, careful manner and according to established standards
- negligence
- when a trained care provider causes harm by failing to perform according to standards or by acting beyond their authority
- malpractice
- can be physical, verbal, emotional, sexual
- abuse
- document used to appoint someone to make decisions if they are incapacitated
- health care proxy
- is used to describe the care a person would prefer if incapacitated
- living will
- force patients to do something against their will
- coercion
- process of giving and getting information
- communication
- focus on the speaker
- active listening
- smiling
- non-verbal communication
- encourage people to talk
- open-ended questions
- a question that can be answered with yes or no
- close-ended question
- BID
- twice a day
- I & O
- intake and output
- NPO
- not by mouth
- Q
- every
- TPR
- temperature, pulse, and respiration
- w/c
- wheelchair
- hs
- at bedtime
- Lab
- labratory
- CPR
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- amt
- amount