Safety-Glossary of Terms
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- Environment
- our surrounding, the material and spiritual influences which effect growth, development and existence
- Therapeutic environment
- those surroundings which meet the needs of a person requiring care
- Medical asepsis
- clean technique, refers to the practice of controlling and reducing the number of organisms in the environment
- Standard precautions
- CDC recommends health care workers consider all clients as potentially infected with HIV and other blood borne pathogens
- Nosocomial infections
- an infection acquired in a hospital
- Assistive devices
- any technique that assists the client to maintain physiological and psychological well-being
- ROM/ROJM
- range of motion or range of joint motion is an exercise regime to improve, maintain joint mobility and other bodily functions
- Leverage
- mechanical advantage that assists moving or lifting
- Alignment
- the position of body parts that permit optimal musculoskeletal balance and operation
- Base of support
- is the foundation of an object that creates stability
- Isometric exercise
- exercise that increases the muscle tension with little or no change in muscle length
- Restraints
- any device that limits a person's physical or psychological maniupulation of the environment
- Chemical restaint
- is a medication that accomplishes the physical or psychololgical limitations of the person's ability to manipulate the environment
- Physical restraint
- is the use of bodily, physical force to limit a client's freedom of movement for greater than five minutes