chapter 3
Terms
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- maltreatment
- providing poor or improper treatment or using inappropriate responses(employee isolation,confinement or restraint of a patient as a disciplinary action)
- client rights
- a document listing the rights and expectations provided for a resident recieving care in his or her home;must be signed by the client
- endangerment
- placement of an individual in a life-threatening situation that the person cannot respond to
- sexual abuse
- harm that occurs when a person's body is mistreated for sexual reasons or when they areforced or coered intounwanted or improper sexual actvity
- abuse
- unreasonable confinement
- incapacitated
- being unale to act for oneself
- advocate
- a person who speak on behalf of someone else
- informed consent
- permisssion given after full disclosure of the facts
- durable power of attorney
- type of advance directive that gives someone power to make health care decisions for another person
- legal right
- a privlage that is permitted by law
- resident council
- a group designed to solve problems or degreements residents have in a nursing facility
- emotional abuse
- harm thatoccurs when one person's words or actions lead to another persons feeling sad or feeling afraid
- ombudsman
- a person who listens to your concerns and resolve conflicts while in a nursing facility
- advance medical directive
- document that allows a person to express written wishes regarding health care decisions to be used whenand if the person is unable to speak for themselves
- exploitation
- the act of taking advantage of someone
- grievance process
- procedure in which a person may make a complaint about services or care recieved
- ethical dilemma
- a problem or situation in which a nurse assistant must decide what is the correct,moral and professional thing to do.
- health care proxy
- a legal document that names a person to make health care decisions if the person recieveing care is unable to
- neglect
- failure to provide goods and services necesary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness
- ethical
- that which is morally and professionally correct
- living will
- a legal document,prepared by a person recieving care, that directs which measures to take or not to take to prolong life when death seems likely
- resident rights
- a document listing the rights and the expectations provided to a resident in a nursing facility;must be signed by the resident
- patient rights
- a document listing the rights and expectations provided to a resident who recieves care in a hospital must be signed by the patient