Vocab Ch 1
ADLS
What is Activities of daily Living?
- Daily personal care tasks, such as bathing, caring for skin, fingernails and hair; eating drinking caring for the mouth and teeth; dressing: walking: trasfering; eliminating and communicating.
Federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have certain disabilities or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work
What is Medicare?
Care given to people who have had treatments, procedures, or surgeries and need short-term skilled care.
What is Outpatient care?
An independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits different types of healthcare facilities.
What is Joint Commission?
method of nursing care in which a nurse acts as a leader of a group of people giving care.
What is a Team Leader?
a group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provide activities of Daily living.
What is a Care team?
a medical assistance program for people who have low incomes, as well as for people with disablities.
What is Medicaid?
The identification of disease or condition by its signs and symptoms and through test results.
what is diagnosis?
the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility.
What is Length of stay?
deserving the trust of others
What is trustworthy?
RN
What is a Registered Nurse?
A Type of care that places emphasis on the person needing care and his or her individuality and capabilities.
Being able to identify with and understand the feelings of others.
What is empathetic?
care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs.
What is Holistic Care?
A person living in a long-term care facility.
What is a resident?
NA
What is a nursing assistant?
what is Liability?
Method of nursing care that involves assigning specific tasks to each team member.
what is functional nursing?
A licensed nurse who provides skilled nursing care and gives treatments and medications.
what is a LPN or Licensed vocational nurse (LVN)?
a condition in which the body's immune response is triggered after exposure to a substance called an allergen; reactions such as sneezing, difficulty breathing, and skin issues may result.
What are Allergies?
Holistic, compassionate care for people who have approximately six months or less to live; care is available until the person dies.
What is Hospice care?
What is a Policy?
Caring for children and the elderly in the same setting.
What is intergenerational care?
care given in hospitals or in long-term care facilities for people who need less care than for an acute (sudden onset, short-term) illness or injury but more than for a chronic (long-term) illness.
What is subacute care?
The order of authority within a facility.
What is Chain of command?