Communication Skills
To place things in order of importance.
What is Prioritize?
The natural passageway for air to enter into the lungs.
What is the Airway?
An ongoing process of learning about other cultures and applying that knowledge to provide better health care.
What is Cultural Competence?
Natural period of rest for the mind and body during which energy is restored.
What is Sleep?
Communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds.
What is Verbal Communication?
Information collected from resident's that the person reports; synonymous with symptoms.
What is Subjective Information?
A partial or complete loss of function or ability.
What is Impairment?
A biased generalization about a group that is usually based on opinions and distorted ideas.
What is a Stereotype?
A bed made while a person is in the bed.
What is an Occupied Bed?
A way of communicating that involves giving a person one's full attention while he is speaking and encouraging him to give information and clarify ideas.
What is Active Listening?
A person's awareness of person, place and time.
The inability to think clearly and logically.
What is Confusion?
Successfully balancing things that happen in everyday life.
What is Wellness?
The inability to control the bladder or bowels, which leads to an involuntary loss of urine or feces.
What is Incontinence?
All of the conscious or unconscious messages a person's body sends as she communicates.
What is Body Language?
An organized method used by nurses to determine resident's needs, plan the appropriate care to meet those needs, and evaluate how well the plan of care is working.
What is the Nursing Process?
A surgically-created opening through the neck into the trachea.
What is a Tracheostomy?
A person who believes that he does not know or cannot know if God exists.
What is Agnostic?
An extra sheet placed on top of the bottom sheet which is used for moving residents.
What is a Draw Sheet?
Measurements that monitor the functioning of the vital organs of the body.
What are Vital Signs?
A meeting to share and gather information about a resident in order to develop a care plan.
What is a Care Conference?
Unconscious behaviors used to release tension and/or help a person cope with stress.
What is Defense Mechanisms?
A religion that believes in the unity of everything and that all are a part of God.
The 24hr day-night cycle.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
A report documenting an incident and the response to the incident.
What is Incident Report?