Healthcare settings
Conditions last a long period of time, even a lifetime
What is Chronic Conditions
Defines the tasks that healthcare providers are allowed to do and how to do them correctly
What is Scope of Practice?
What is Physical Abuse?
Relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility.
What are Residents' Rights?
An individual's health information that must be kept private.
What is Protected health information (PHI)?
Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist
What is Skilled Care?
Performs tasks assigned by nurse, such as taking vital signs. Must have at least 75 hours of training and 12 continuing education hours per year.
What is a CNA?
The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent
What is battery?
Requires that Nurse Aide must complete at least 75 hour training?
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
To keep things private.
What is confidentiality?
facilities for people who need some help with daily care?
What is assisted living?
Coordinates, manages, and provides skilled nursing care in LTC
What is a Registered Nurse?
The improper or illegal use of a persons' money, possessions, property, or other assets
The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care.
What is informed consent?
Law that helps to keep health information private and secure.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
Given in facilities or homes for people who have about six months to live?
What is Hospice care?
Evaluates a person and develops a treatment plan to increase movement
What is a Physical Therapist?
Forcing a person to perform or participate in sexual acts against his or her will.
What is Sexual abuse?
Knowledge of right and wrong.
What is Ethics
Don't talk about residents in public, use confidential rooms for reports to other care team members, store, file, or shred documents according to facility policy.
What are ways to protect privacy?
Care given by specialists
What is Rehabilitation?
Determines residents' needs and helps get them support services
What is a Medical Social Worker?
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolation, or insulting a person, or treating him or her as a child
What is Psychological abuse?
What is an ombudsman?
chart or legal document
What is a resident's medical record?