Terms 1
When a CNA leaves a resident before their needs are met.
What is Abandonment?
An injury which rubs off the surface of the skin.
What is an Abrasion?
personal daily care tasks.
What is Activities of Daily Living?
Portable pan that the client can urinate or defecate in.
What is a bedpan?
Keeping the spine straight, not curved or twisted.
What is body alignment?
Moving a body part away from the midline of the body.
Medical procedure used when a client's heart or lungs have stopped working.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?
A disease or condition that develops slowly and is long term or long lasting.
What is chronic illness?
The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private.
What is confidentiality?
Artificial Teeth.
What are dentures?
Removal of some or all of a body part.
What is Amputation?
The state of not breathing.
What is apnea?
What is a contracture?
Skin that is pale, blue or gray.
What is Cyanotic?
A condition that results from inadequate fluid in the body.
What is dehydration?
A progressive, incurable disease that is progressive and affects the brain.
What is Alzheimer's?
Inhalation of food, fluid or foreign material in the lungs.
What is aspiration?
Swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues.
What is edema?
Sitting 30-45 degrees is this position.
What is semi-fowler's position?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is referred to as.....
What is HIPPA?
Disorder lacking hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
What is anemia?
Type of breathing pattern where the client's breathes several times and then stops breathing.
What is Cheyne-Stokes Breathing?
General term that refers to a serious loss of mental abilities.
What is dementia?
High blood pressure is referred to as....
What is hypertension?
Low blood sugar levels is called....
What is hypoglycemia?