Facilities
24-hour skilled care provided in long-term care facilities for people with ongoing conditions.
What is long-term care (LTC)?
The state of being legally responsible for something.
What is liability?
People responsible for the care of both their children and aging relatives.
What is the sandwich generation?
An unlicensed healthcare worker who performs assigned nursing tasks and gives personal care.
What is a nursing assistant (NA)?
A way of classifying or categorizing someone or something at the first meeting.
What is a first impression?
Residences for people who do not need 24-hour skilled care, but who do require some help with daily care.
What is skilled care?
A course of action to be taken every time a certain situation occurs.
What is policy?
The assignment of tasks to another person that are within their scope of practice.
What is delegation?
A licensed nurse who provides skilled nursing care and gives treatments and medications.
What is an Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)?
Being able to identify with and understand the feelings of others.
What is empathy?
Holistic, compassionate care for people who have approximately six months or less to live; care is available until the person dies.
What is hospice care?
A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have certain disabilities or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work.
What is Medicare?
Care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs.
What is holistic care?
A licensed nurse who assesses residents, creates care plans, monitors progress, provides skilled nursing care, administers treatments and medications, and supervises the care given by nursing assistants and other members of the care team.
What is a Registered Nurse (RN)?
Guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled.
What is conscientious?
24-hour skilled care given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers for short-term, immediate illnesses or injuries.
What is acute care?
A medical assistance program for people who have low incomes, as well as for people with disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
A type of care that places the emphasis on the person needing care and their individuality and capabilities.
What is person-centered care?
The group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide resident care.
What is the care team?
The use of proper standards of behavior at work and in work-related settings.
What is professionalism?
Care given in hospitals or in long-term care facilities for people who need less care than for an acute (sudden onset, short-term) illness or injury but more than for a chronic (long-term) illness.
What is subacute care?
An independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits different types of healthcare facilities.
What is the Joint Commission?
Daily personal care tasks, such as bathing; caring for skin, fingernails, and hair; eating; drinking; caring for the mouth and teeth; dressing; walking; transferring, eliminating; and communicating.
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)?
A nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.
What is a charge nurse?
Deserving the trust of others.
What is trustworthy?