The Health Care System
Care of the whole person, physically and emotionally
What is Holistic
To authorize another person to preform a task on your behalf
What is Delegate
Personal Cleanliness
What is Hygiene
The exchange of information
What is Communication
Chronic illness, may need assistant with routine activities
What is the Older Adult
Central base of operations for the nursing staff
What is The Nurses' Station
Conditions (illness) that is ongoing and often needs to be controlled with medication and or treatment
What is Chronic Condition
Group of people with different types of knowledge and skill level.
What is the health care team
The range of tasks that a nursing assistant is legally permitted to do
What is Scope of Practice
Others can count on you to do your job with minimal supervision
What is Reliability
discord resulting from differences between people
What is Conflict
A feeling of emotional closeness to another human being
What is Intimacy
Where snacks and beverages are stored and prepared for residents
What is the Nourishment room
Routine task of daily life, such as bathing, eating, and grooming
What are Activities of daily living (ADL's)
An act passed in 1987 to improve the quality of life for people who live in ling-term care facilities
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
A process that allows members of the nursing team to communicate with each other regarding the resident's specific needs
What is the Nursing process
Accepts responsibility for their action
What is Accountability
A way of communicating that uses written or spoken language
What is Verbal Communication
Something that is essential for a person's physical and mental health
What is a Need
Personal care items are usually stored here
What is Bedside Table
The use of Nursing homes for 3 months or less
What is Short term admissions
An inspection of a nursing home carried out by CMS to ensure that care is being provided according to standards and regulations.
What is Survey
An RN determines all the nursing needs for residents and assigns tasks according to each team member's skills and level of responsibility.
What is Team Nursing
What it feels like to be in another persons shoes
What is Empathy
Information that is obtained directly through measurements or by using one of the 5 senses.
What is Objective Data
A general characterization that describes skin color, body stature, facial features, and hair texture.
What is Race
Sink like fixture that flushes like a toilet and is connected to a sewer line.
What is a Hopper
Condition that gets progressively worse over time
What is a Degenerative Condition
Responsible for protecting the health and safety of American workers
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration
A specific plan of care for each resident developed by the nursing team
What is Nursing Care Plan
Attends to details and goes the extra mile to complete tasks with care
What is Conscientiousness
Document that contains a persons health information such as DX, vitals signs, Lab results, response to treatment
What is Medical Record
How a person perceives his or her maleness or femaleness.
What is Sexuality
The joints at the hips and knees of the mattresses of most adjustable beds that allow the mattress to "break" or bend.
What are Gatches
More complex tasks that a person must be able to do in order to continue to live independently.
What are Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL's)
A report that focuses on the degree of assistance or skilled care that each resident of a long-term care facility needs
What is Minimum Data Set (MDS)
Laws concerned with relationship between individuals
What is Civil Laws
Hair neatly away from your face, Nails short, no dangling earrings, clean, pressed uniform, good personal hygiene
What is Guidelines for Professional Appearance
The spoken exchange of information between health care team members
What is Reporting
Physical signs of aging become more obvious, strength diminishes, as do many senses
What is Later Adulthood
Size of the room, lighting, temperature, air quality, privacy
What are Aspects of the Resident's environment regulated by OBRA
Problems processing, learning, or remembering information.
What is Cognitive Impairment
Official recognition that the organization meets certain standards of care
What is Accreditation
Word used to describe a person who fails to do what a careful and reasonable person would do in any given situation
What is Negligent
enough sleep, well balanced meals, not smoking, regular exercise, routine physical examination
What is guidelines for staying physically healthy
Something that you notice about the resident
What is Observation
Stimulation of the genitals for sexual pleasure
What is Masturbation
Head of bed is lowered and the foot of bed is raised
What is Trendelenburg Position
More than one medical condition at the same time in the same person
What is Co-existent medical conditions / Co-morbidities