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Personal daily care tasks including, bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and hair, toileting, eating and drinking.
Activities of daily living (ADLs)
To communicate to staff a need for assistance. This should be available to residents at all times
Call light
An individual who has completed a state approved course and has successfully completed certification testing. This provides direct care.
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
The line of authority in the facility which addresses to whom each employee/department reports.
Chain of command
Beliefs, values, habits, diet and health practices that relate to a person's culture or religion
Cultural differences
A system of behaviors people learn from the people by which they are surrounded.
Culture
Requires staff assistance to carry out activities of daily living.
Dependent
Transferring a strong negative feeling to something or someone else.
Displacement
Law that requires health information to be kept secure.
Health insurance portability and accountability act.
(HIPAA)
Able to carry out activities of daily living without staff assistance.
Independent
A licensed professional who has completed 1 to 2 years of education and has completed an exam for licensure.
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Care for a person who requires 24 hour care and assistance.
Long term care (LTC)
Information based on what is factually seen, heard, touched, or smelled. A direct observation
Objective Information
Resident advocate who investigates complaints and assists to achieve agreement between parties, often defending the rights of residents.
Ombudsman
a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs
Person centered care
How a person behaves when he/she is on the job.
Professionalism
Seeing feelings in others that are really ones own.
Projection
Making excuses to justify a situation
Rationalization
A licensed professional who has completed 2 to 4 years of nursing education and has completed the examination for licensure.
Registered nurse (RN)
Going back to an old immature behavior.
Regression
Blocking painful thoughts or feelings from the mind
Repression
The tasks for which a nurse aide is trained, thus, allowed to do.
Scope of practice
Terms/words used that may be specific to a generation and not easily recognizable and/or easily misinterpreted by the resident.
Slang
Info that could not be or was not observed. The info is based on what a person thinks or something that was reported by another person that may or may not be true.
Subjective information
1) Directer of nursing
2)Licensed Nurse
3) CNA
Chain of command