UC - Health Care Today
Define Clinical Task
Tasks performed at the bedside or in direct contact with the patient (direct patient care)
Define Chronic
Long-lasting; describes illness or medical condition that lasts over a long period and sometimes causes a long-term change in the body.
Define Sterotype
The assumption that all members of a culture or ethnic group act in the same way.
Define Aggressive
A behavioral style in which a person attempts to be the dominant force in an interaction.
Define Accountability
Taking responsibility for one's actions; being answerable to someone for something one has done
Define Non Clinical Task
Tasks performed away from the bedside (indirect patient care)
Define Triage
Nursing interventions. Classification defined as establishing priorities of patient care, usually according to a three-level model; emergent, urgent and non-urgent.
Define Assertive
A behavioral style in which a person stands up for his or her own feelings without violating the right and feelings of others.
Define Culturally Sensitive Care
Care that involves understanding and being sensitive to a patient's cultural background. Also called cultural competence.
Define Confidentiality
The legally protected right afforded to all patients of having personal and medical information (written or spoken) be protected
Define Policies and Procedures
Information such as guidelines for practice and hospital regulations found online or in a manual.
Define Holistic Nursing Care
A modern nursing practice that expresses the philosophy of total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the patient.
Provisional Diagnosis
What the physician suspects is wrong with the patient, based on presenting symptoms.
Define Manipulation
Attempts at influencing or controlling others' actions or behaviors to one's own advantage.
Define Ethics
A system of moral principles (beliefs) that determine how we make judgments in regard to right and wrong
Define Hospice Care
Supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families
Define Homeopathy
A natural form of medicine that trats the whole person with natural medicines.
Define Empathy
The ability to understand and to experience other people's feelings, or the ability to put oneself "into their shoes"
Define Fogging
Assertive skill in which a person responds to a criticism by making noncommittal statements that cannot be argued against.
Define Workplace Behavior
A pattern of actions and interactions of an individual that directly or indirectly affects his or her effectiveness while at work; the attitude and amount of enthusiasm that one brings to the job
Define Long-term Care
A variety of services, often provided in nonhospital settings that help meet both the medical and nonmedical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time.
Define Intensivist
Specializes in the care of the care of critically ill patients, usually in an intesive care unit.
Define Ethnocentrism
The inability to accept other cultures, or an assumption of cultural superiority.
Define Passive Aggressive
A type of aggressive behavior characterized by an indirect expression of negative feelings, resentment, and aggression in an unassertive way.
Define Hostile Work Environment
A threatening or sexually oriented atmosphere of pattern of behavior that is determined to be a form of harassment