Emergency Care
Positions
End of Life
Communication Challenges
Medical Abbreviations
100

Condition of not enough insulin

Diabetic Coma, Hyperglycemia, Diabetic Ketoacidosis

100

Lying flat om your back

Supine

100

Emotional response to loss

Grieving

100

2 things we might do in care of the visually impaired

"Use of clock"

Make sure you knock before entering/touching resident

Do not move furniture

100

NPO

Nothing by Mouth

200

Epistaxis

Nosebleed

200

Position for vaginal exams

Lithotomy

200

Period following the loss of loved one when mourning occurs

Bereavment

200

Making excuses as a defense mechanism is called 

Rationalization

200

BID

Twice a day

300

Paralysis of one side of the body

Hemiplegia

300

Position for rectal exam or to give enema

Sim's position

300

Condition after death in which muscles become stiff & rigid

Rigor mortis

300

Going back to behavior from the past to comfort self

Regression

300

PRN

As needed

400

Inability to speak

Apasia

400

What position would you place a resident that is in bed and becomes faint

Trendelenberg

400

Care that focuses on pain relief & control of complications

Palliative care

400

An artificial airway is called

Tracheostomy

400

HS

Hour sleep or bedtime

500

Device used during cardiac arrest to re-establish cardiac rhythm

A.E.D.

500

The science of designing equipment to make it safer for worker's abilities

Ergonomics

500

Exam of the body after death by pathologist

Autopsy

500

Name 3 factors that could cause confusion

Hypoglycemia, dehydration, medications, lack of sleep, infection, seizures, fever, UTI, not using hearing aides

500

SOB

Shortness of Breath