Enter CategoryChapter 39 - Developmental Disabilities
Ch 39-2
Chapter 40 - Assisting with Medications
Ch40-2
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This structure carries blood, oxygen, and nutrients from the mother to the fetus
What is the Umbilical Cord?
100
A brain disorder that impairs communication, social skills, and behaviour
What is autism?
100
Brief disturbance in the brain's normal electrical function; affects awareness, movement, and sensation
What is a seizure?
100
Herbal or other "natural" products that do not require a physician's prescription; not considered part of conventional medicine
What is Alternative Remedies
100
Exiting from the body, especially through the stool, urine, lungs, or skin
What is Excretion?
200
White blood cells that are part of the blood; the cells are part pf the immune system that fight infection
What is Leukocytes?
200
A disorder affecting muscles control caused by an injury or abnormality in the motor region of the brain
What is Cerebral Palsy (CP)?
200
Uncontrolled contractions of skeletal muscle and smooth muscle
What is spastic?
200
The process by which substances pass through the intestinal wall into the blood
What is absorption?
200
A drug or other substance used to prevent or treat disease or illness
What is Medication?
300
Postpartum vaginal discharge that begins as a bloody discharge and then changes in color and amount
What is Lochia?
300
A permanent disability that a person is born with or that begins before the age of 18 years and that limits the ability to learn
What is Developmental Disability?
300
A congenital disorder involving improper closing of the spine before birth
What is Spins Bifida?
300
A severe allergic reaction that occurs rapidly and causes a life-threatening response involving the whole body
What is Anaphylaxis?
300
Chemical reactions that take place to convert a drug from smaller molecules into waste products before it can exit the body
What is Metabolization?
400
A rare, often life-threatening, illness that develops suddenly after an infection; has been linked to the use of tampons in the postpartum period
What is Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)?
400
A congenital disorder caused by an extra twenty-first chromosome and results in varying degrees of intellectual disability
What is down syndrome?
400
Loss of ability to move corresponding parts on both sides of the body; both arms and both legs are affected
What is Diplegia?
400
A substance, usually a protein, that the body recognizes as foreign and that can evoke an immune response
What is an antigen?
400
The legal limits and extent of a health care worker's role
What is Scope of Practice
500
Major depression in the mother at any point during the first year after childbirth
What is Postpartum Depression?
500
A group of neurological disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of convulsive seizures, sensory disturbances, abnormal behaviour, loss of consciousness, or all of the above
What is epilepsy?
500
Impaired ability to learn
What is an Intellectual Disability?
500
The state at which the body gets accustomed to a substance so needs larger and larger amounts of it to experience the same effect
What is drug tolerance?
500
A response to a medication that occurs in addition to the intended or main response