Terminology
Personal daily care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and nails, eating, drinking, walking, transferring, and elimination
What is activities of daily living (ADLs)?
A bacterial infection of the urethra, bladder, ureter, or kidney that results in painful burning during urination and the frequent feeling of needing to urinate.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
A progressive, incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in the brain, which eventually cause dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
A general term that refers to inflammation of the joints, causing stiffness, pain, and decreased mobility.
What is arthritis?
There are this many milliliters in an ounce.
What are 30 ml?
The process of inhaling air into the lungs (inspiration) and exhaling air out of the lungs (expiration).
What is respiration?
The inability to control the bladder, which leads to an involuntary loss of urine.
What is urinary incontinence?
The stage of Alzheimer's disease that is typically the longest duration. May forget some past experiences and personal background. Personality and behavior may change.
What is the middle-stage?
The NA should lead with which side when transferring someone who had a CVA?
What is the stronger side?
This is the most essential nutrient for life. Without this a person can only live for a few days.
What is water?
A doctor's order stating that a person is unable to touch the floor or support any body weight on one or both legs.
What is non-weight-bearing (NWB)?
A urine specimen that does not include the first and last urine voided; also called a midstream specimen.
What is a clean-catch specimen?
The repetition of words, phrases, questions, or actions.
What is perservation?
A progressive disease that causes muscle atrophy and eventually leads to death; also called Lou Gehrig's disease.
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
This nutrient is essential for tissue growth and repair. This provides a supply of energy.
What is protein?
A device that replaces a body part that is missing or deformed because of an accident, injury, illness, or birth defect.
What is a prosthesis?
A chronic condition in which the liquid contents of the stomach back up into the esophagus. Due to this, a person should sit up for 30 minutes after eating.
What is called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)?
Becoming restless and agitated in the late afternoon, evening, or night.
What is sundowning?
What is Parkinson's disease?
The inhalation of food, drink, or foreign material into the lungs.
What is aspiration?
What is angina?
This is the position in which you should assist your resident into if the nurse needs to give a rectal suppository or an enema.
What is the Sim's position?
In medicine, when a person with Alzheimer's disease wanders away from the protected area and does not return on his own. This must be reported to the nurse immediately.
What is elope?
Residents with this disease have trouble breathing, especially getting air out of the lungs. They are at high risk of contracting pneumonia.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
Abbreviation for nothing by mouth from the Latin nil per os; medical order that means a person should not have anything to eat or drink.
What is NPO (nothing by mouth)?