Key Terms
What does ADL's refer to?
Activity of Daily Living
What are Morals?
The fundamental principles of behaviour each person believes to be right or wrong for him- or herself without concern for legalities or customs.
What is a nuclear family?
A family consisting of a father, a mother, and children.
What is Autonomy?
Having the freedom and choice to make decisions that affect one's life
Also knows as self determination
What is psychosocial Health?
Well being in the social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of ones life.
What does DIPPS refer to?
Dignity, Independence, Preferences, Privacy, and Safety.
What is the definition of Belief?
A conviction that something is true
What is the definition of Diversity?
The state of different individuals and cultures coexisting
What is beneficence?
Doing or promoting good.
What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Personality, family background, environment, and life's circumstances
What is professionalism?
An approach to work that demonstrates respect for others, commitment, competence, and appropriate behaviour
What are Values?
What an individual considers to be worthwhile or desirable qualities in a person
What is the definition of Ethnicity?
The sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion, or identity
What is ethical dilemma?
An apparent conflict between opposing moral choices
Two common theories that addresses a client's psychosocial health are?
Erikson's theory of psychosocial development and Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Who are unregulated care providers?
Health Care Aides
What is holistic health?
A state of well-being in all dimensions of one's life
What is the definition of Culture?
The characteristics of a group of people, including the language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music, and traditions
What is Ethics?
The rules of conduct that guide us when deciding what is right and what is wrong, and what is good and what is bad
What are the most common persistent sleeping disorders?
Insomnia, sleep deprivation and sleep walking.
What does scope of practice refer to?
The legal limits and extent of a health care worker's role
What is the principle of Justice?
Means that all people should be treated in a fair and equal manner.
What is cultural conflict?
Negative feelings and conduct that can result when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values and behaviours on people from another culture.
What is nonmaleficence?
The ethical principle of doing no harm.
What type of physical pain can a person experience?
Acute, persistent, radiating, referred, or phantom limb.