Health at Home
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
2. Approximate skin
3. Apply dressing: ensure the wound doesn't dry out under the dressing
What are the proper steps in the care of a new skin tear?
ACO stands for this
What is Accountable Care Organization?
This care involves healing the mind, body, and soul of our patients. It involves thinking about and assisting patients with the effects of illness on the body, mind, emotions, spirituality, religion, and personal relationships
What is Holistic care?
This is individualized for each client. Lists all the tasks that the Health Care providers must perform. Activities not included on this should not be done.
What is the Plan of care?
This is defines what you are allowed to do and how to do it correctly
What is scope of practice?
Communication and "touch points" are vital in maintaining partnership in this.
A method of therapeutic communication which can be used to connect with someone who has moderate to late-stage dementia. It places more emphasis on the emotional aspect of a conversation and less on the factual content, thereby imparting respect to the person, their feelings and their beliefs.
The acronym for Outcome and Assessment Information set
What is OASIS?
Benefits of this treatment include the following:
What is negative pressure therapy (wound vac)?
Injuries are characterized by superficial reddening of the skin (or red, blue or purple hues in darkly pigmented skin) that when pressed does not turn white (non-blanchable erythema). If the cause of the injury is not relieved, these will progress.
What is a stage 1 pressure ulcer?
April 28
What is Josh's Birthday?
In this level of care, the hospice patient must require at least 8 hours of care per day, at least 50% of that need from a skilled nurse or LPN and the remaining provided by hospice aides.
What is continuous care?
The agency has 5 days to print this and send it to the physician.
This person helps the client understand and compensate for disabilities. May involve training client in dressing, eating or bathing with special adaptive devices.
Who is the occupational therapist?
A quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.
What is atrial fibrillation?
Your main contact for aide needs and scheduling
Who is Jasper?
Ability to speak limited to approximately a half-dozen intelligible different words or fewer in the course of an average day or in the course of an intensive interview.
What is a FAST score of 7A?
This accounts for a large proportion of improper reimbursement.
What is improper documentation?
A written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
What is an Advance directive?
One way to assess for DVT and is preformed as listed below.
What is Homan's sign?
October 2005
What is the starting month of Summit?
What is bulbar onset ALS?
What is point of care charting?