Cat 1
An intentional unnecessary physical act that inflicts pain or injury a person . Threat to inflict pain or cause injury . Willful infliction of injury , confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm , pain or mental anguish.
What is Abuse
Sudden , not long term , needed quickly
What is acute?
Beliefs, values, habits, diet and health practices that relate to a person's culture or religion.
What is Culture differences?
The variety of people living and working together in the facility .
What is Culture Diversity?
Transferring a strong negative feeling to something or someone else
What is displacement.
The number of days a person stays in a care facility
What is Length of Stay?
A course of action determined by the facility that should be taken every tie a certain situation occurs.
What is Policy ?
Care give to elderly adults during day time hours only at a facility.
What is an Adult Daycare
Long term, has had a disease for a long time
What is Chronic?
Care provided in a persons home
What is Home Health
The way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time .
What is Culture.
Able to carry out ADL's without staff assistance
What is independent
A person 18 or older who as a result of mental or physical impairment is unable to protect himself or herself from abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or exploration. A long term care facility resident is considered to be one of these persons.
What is an Impaired Person?
Making excuses to justify a situating?
What is Rationalization?
An individual who plans activities for the residents and assist them to socialize and stay physically and mentally active.
What is an activity director
Bedridden. Confined to bed, especially for a long or indefinite period of time due to illness or injury.
What is Bedfast.
Illegal or unauthorized use or management of a n endangered person's or impaired person's funds, assets, or property
What is exploration?
Rejection of a thought or feeling
What is denial?
Care for persons who require 24 hour care and assistance
What is Long Term Care? LTC
Information based on what is factually seen, heard, touched or smelled. A direct observation.
What is objective information?
The steps to be taken to carry out a task . A particular way of doing things.
What is a procedure?
Personal daily care task including bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and hair, toileting , eating , and dringing
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADL's)
An individualized list of task that team members, including the NA , must perform, states how often these tasks should be performed and how they should be carried out.
What is a Care Plan
A long-term care facility resident or an Arkansas State Hospital resident who is found to be in a situation or condition that poses an risk of death
What is a Endangered Adult?
The process of exchanging information with others
What is communication?
Means a person, regardless of age, living in a long term care facility
What is a Long Term Care Resident?
Resident advocate who investigates complaints and assist them with activities of daily living .
What is a Ombudsman?
Going back to an old immature behavior
What is Regression?
Facilities where residents live who need limited assistance, but do not require skilled care .
What is assisted living
A device used to communicate a need for assistance to staff , usually in a skilled medical facility or hospital
What is a call light?
Federals Law that protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
What is the HIPAA law. Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act.
Requires staff assistance to carry out ADL.
What is dependent?
Negligently failing to provide necessary treatment, rehabilitation care, food, clothing , shelter, supervision, or medical services to an endangered person or impaired person Failing to report health problems or changes in health problems and failure to provide goods and services to this type of person.
What is Neglect
A approach to nursing home care that honors and respects the voice of elders and those working closest with them . Requires a continuous listening trying new things, seeing how they work, and changing thins in an effort to individualize care and de-institutionalize the nursing home environment.
What is Person-Centered Care?
Blocking painful thoughts or feelings from the mind.
What is Repression?
24 hour skilled care given in a hospital or ambulatory surgical center.
What is Acute Care?
Phrases that are used frequently and which often have different meaning, making it difficult for the resident to understand
What is a Cliches?
Care for individuals who have an estimated six moths or less to live
What is Hospice Care?
Medical conditions determined by a doctor
What is a diagnosis>
Communication without using words, such as facial expressions, tone of voice, posture, gestures, touch, body language, ect.
What is Non- Verbal communication?
How a person behaves when he or she is on the job?
What is Professionalism ?
Care that focuses on the comfort and dignity of the person rather than on curing him or her.
What is Palliative Care?