Health Care Agencies
An illness of rapid onset and short duration; the person is expected to recover.
Acute Illness
Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of the resident
Ombudsman
Hitting, slapping, kicking, or pushing.
Physical Abuse
The oral account of care and observations.
Reporting
A microbe that is harmful and can cause infection.
Pathogen
A nursing pattern focusing on tasks and jobs; each nursing team is assigned certain tasks and jobs.
Functional Nursing
Separating a person from other people against his or her will, keeping a person to a certain area, or keeping the person away from his or her room without consent.
Involuntary seclusion
Yelling, screaming, or threats of punishment.
Verbal abuse
Information that is seen, heard, measured, or smelled by the observer (signs)
Objective data
The practice used to reduce the number of microbes and prevent the spread from one person or place to another person or place.
Medical Asepsis (Clean Technique)
Those who provide nursing care; RN's, LVN/LPN's, and nursing assistants.
Nursing Team
A person with the legal right to act on the patient's or resident's behalf when he or she cannot do so for himself or herself.
Representative
The patient is in dirty clothing or has poor hygiene.
Neglect
Things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through your senses; symptoms
Subjective data
The process of becoming unclean.
Contamination
A nursing care pattern; an RN is responsible for the patient's total care.
Primary nursing
The care provided to maintain or restore health, improve function, or relieve symptoms.
Treatment
Forging a person's signature, misuse, or theft of money or possessions.
Financial Abuse
Message sent through facial expression, gestures, hand, gait, and eye contact.
Body Language
A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body.
Infection
An illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover.
Terminal illness
Prevents patient or resident from freely moving.
Restraint
Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third party.
Defamation
Communication that does not use words.
Nonverbal communication
Protection against certain diseases.
Immunity