Introduction
Brushing Teeth, Combing Hair, Bathing, things you do on a daily basis
What is ADL's- Activities of Daily Living
A person who investigates, reports on, and helps settle complaints in a nursing home
What is an OMBUDSMAN?
A language disorder that affects a person's ability to communicate. Can occur suddenly after a stroke or head injury or can develop slowly from a growing brain tumor or disease.
What is APHASIA?
A Document that contains information on the potential hazards (health, fire, reactivity and enviromental) and how to work safely with the chemical product
What is SAFETY DATA SHEETS?
Treat a person with cruelty or violence, regularly or repeatedly. Abandonment, Abduction, Physical, Mental, Fiduciary, Isolation, Neglect.
What is ABUSE?
Series of positions of authority or rank with in an organization
What is CHAIN OF COMMAND?
A federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
What is HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
What is CULTURE?
Other name for Safety Data Sheets, formerly know as
What is MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS?
The state of being private and away from other people.
What is SECLUSION?
The scientific study of old age, the process of aging and the particular problems of old people
What is GERONTOLOGY?
A law that requires nursing homes to "promote and protect the rights of each resident" and places a strong emphasis on individual dignity ad self-determination.
What is RESIDENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS?
A healthcare professional who identify, assess and manage disorders of hearing, balance and other neural systems.
What is AUDIOLOGIST?
Movement to and fro or around something, especially that of fluid in a closed system.
What is CIRCULATION?
The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
What is SLANDER?
A formal account of an employees responsibilities
What is a JOB DESCRIPTION?
A written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to the doctor.
What is an ADVANCE DIRECTIVES?
Skills we use every day when we communicate and interact with other people, both individually and in groups.
What is INTERPERSONAL SKILLS?
Periodic nursing home inspection based on procedures specified in the Manual.
What is a SURVEY?
The state of being imprisoned without legal authority.
What is FALSE IMPRISONMENT?
Must complete 48 hours of inservice (nursing education classes) in 2 years and submit them to CDPH.
What is RENEWAL (C.N.A. RENEWAL)?
A do-not-resuscitate order, is a medical order written by a doctor. It instructs healthcare providers not to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation if a patient's breathing stops or hearth stops beating.
What is DNR- Do-not-resuscitate?
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is a STEREOTYPE?
Planning and infrastructure design aimed at reducing the risk of fire or impeding the spread of a fire.
What is FIRE SAFETY?
Fail to care for properly, the state of fact of being uncared for.
What is NEGLECT?