Vocabulary
An illness that comes on suddenly that the patient is expected to recover from.
What is an acute illness?
Causing emotional or psychological stress to a client or resident verbally.
What is psychological or emotional abuse?
Ending patient care before a proper exchange of information or handoff.
This individual assists the client with exercise, mobility, and gross motor movement.
Who is the Physical Therapist (PT)?
If you drive a client in your private vehicle, you may be held ____ if you get into an accident.
This type of insurance tells patients which specific doctors and hospitals they may use.
What are Health Maintenance Organizations?
Ignoring a client or resident's needs.
What is neglect?
Telling a family member about your clients and their health care issues.
What is invasion of privacy?
This individual assists with organizing resources for the patient and in-home services.
Who is the Case Manager?
This type of federally funded insurance provides care for those 65 years of age or older.
Medicare
Bathing, eating, getting dressed, brushing your teeth, and eating are all examples of this.
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)?
Slapping, hitting, biting, or causing the patient other bodily harm.
Being held accountable for wrongdoings or lack of action.
This individual assists with swallowing and communication disorders.
Who is the Speech Therapist?
This is the goal of the Affordable Care Act.
What is to increase insurance coverage to more Americans?
What are long-term care facilities or nursing homes?
A family member forging a client's signature on their retirement checks.
What is financial abuse?
Performing a task for which you are not trained to do or that is considered out of your scope of practice.
What is malpractice?
This person plans meals, modifies a patient's diet, and provides teaching around nutrition.
Who is the Dietician?
These are facilities where clients live in individual apartments or condos but share a common living space and are provided home health aide services.
Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs)
A Case Manager can be either of these types of health care professionals.
What is an Registered Nurse (RN) or a Social Worker (SW)?
Verbal or physical statements or contact that are sexual in nature.
What is sexual abuse?
Verbally making a false statement about someone that is intended to cause harm to their reputation.
What is slander?
This professional takes care of the patient's physical environment AND health care needs.
Who is the Home Health Aide (HHA)?
What is the primary reason for the increased need for home health services?
What is people are living longer?