Healthcare
This healthcare setting is generally for people who will die within six months
What is Hospice care?
This is a federally funded insurance plan for people 65 years and older and for some disabled people who are younger
What is Medicare?
A written order specifying the person's wishes that the usual efforts to save his life will not be made
What is DNR order?
Moral principles or standards that govern conduct
What is ethics?
The exchange of information
What is communication?
Patients who are receiving therapy to restore their highest level of functioning
What is rehabilitation?
This is a federally funded insurance plan for people with low incomes
What is Medicaid?
A document that allows a person to make her wishes known regarding health care when the person is unable to
What is advance directive?
The repetitive and deliberate infliction of injury on another person
What is abuse?
A way of communicating that uses written or spoken language
What is verbal communication?
Type of care required by patients who are critically ill and require highly skilled monitoring and care
What is intensive care?
An agency that establishes safety and health standards for the workplace, to protect the safety and health of employees
What is OSHA?
A type of advance directive that states a person's wish that death not be artificially postponed
What is a living will?
Negligence committed by people who hold licenses to practice their profession
What is malpractice?
Communicating that uses facial expressions, gestures, and body language
What is nonverbal communication?
Patients with mental disorders
An act established to improve the quality of life for people who live in long-term care facilities
What is OBRA?
A type of advance directive that transfers the responsibility to an appointed person to handle a person's affairs and make medical decisions
What is a durable power of attorney for health care?
A person who commits an unintentional tort
What is negligent?
Information that is reported by the patient
What is subjective information?
Patients who do not need total care provided by a hospital, but are not quite ready to return home
What is subacute?
This is a record of information such as the person's weight, bowel and bladder habits, and ability to care for one's self, and is used to justify Medicare reimbursement
What is MDS?
This is the process of making a plea or providing support on another's behalf
What is advocacy?
Violation of civil law
What is a tort?
Information that is measured or observed; obtained through your senses.
What is objective information?