Diseases
When the body is deprived of liquids to operate.
What is Dehydration?
Health information specific to a singular person.
What is Personal Health Information (PHI)?
The condition in where a resident has a lack of red blood cells.
What is an anemia?
Manager of all nursing staff at a facility.
Director of Nursing (DON)
The recorded amount of pressure the heart pumps on the first and last contraction.
What is blood pressure.
An infection derived from the urethra.
What is a UTI? (Urinary Tract Infection)
A legal act where PHI is protected and secured from the public.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
A small machine that reads a patient's blood content to find its level of sugars.
What is a glucometer?
Manager of nonmedical aspects of a facility.
What is an Administrator?
The least accurate temperature site to record from.
What is an auxiliary temperature?
Infection derived from erythrocytes, red blood cells, that enters the blood stream.
What is a blood-borne disease?
What is an Ombudsman?
What is a splenectomy?
A nurse who supervises and supports nursing staff while treating a limited amount of patients.
What is a charge nurse?
A patient's blood pressure was recorded at 120/80 which is ____.
What is a normal BP?
A disease that stems from lying down on a bony protrusion for an extended period of time.
What is a decubitus ulcer (pressure sores)?
A detailed form with guidelines for taking care of a patient, completed 14 days of admission.
What is a Minimum Data Set (MDS)?
Helps residents adapt to living and manage their disease.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
A 78-year-old female has a recorded BP of 145/80, which is ____.
What is a Hypertensive Crisis?
Common infection where bacteria has grown resistant to the medication Methicillin.
What is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)?
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
When a patient's vein walls become hardened.
What is arterioscelerosis?
Manages the assessment of resident needs and delivery of required care in a long-term care facility.
What is a Minimum Data Set (MDS) Coordinator?
John, a 42 year old male, has a Heart Rate recorded of 120 BPM, which is ___.
What is an elevated heart rate?