Body Parts
The tube that goes from the back of the mouth to the lungs that has the C shaped cartilage pieces to keep it open.
What is trachea?
This system is the control and message center of the body.
What is the Nervous System?
Substances created to control body functions
What are hormones?
The inability to think clearly and logically is called this.
What is confusion?
Illnesses that will eventually cause death.
What is a terminal illness?
The brain and spinal cord are referred to as this.
What is the CNS (Central Nervous System)?
Skin, hair, and nails are the components of this system.
What is the integumentary system?
This hormone controls the movement of glucose into the cells.
What is insulin?
This is a temporary state of confusion, usually caused by UTIs in the elderly.
What is Delirium?
Deep distress or sorrow over a loss
What is grief?
The largest organ in the body.
What is skin?
This system has passageways that deliver need items and picks up the unnecessary items to be disposed of.
What is the Cardiovascular System?
A resident walking back and forth is said to be doing this.
What is pacing?
Collecting and putting things away in a guarded way, an unhealthy collection of things that are useless
What is hoarding?
Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves.
What are advance directives?
These two types of organs work together to enable ambulation.
What are muscles and bones?
This system has so many hormones to break down large molecules into smaller molecules so the body can use them.
What is the GI or Digestive system?
The surgical creation of an opening from an area inside the body to the outside.
What is an ostomy?
If I am looking at you, but I see someone else's face, then I am having this experience.
What is a delusion?
The type of care given to a patient after death including bathing and changing to clean sheets, so he/she is presentable
What is postmortem care?
The longest working organ, working for a lifetime.
What is the heart?
This system is the major system that influences growth and development, maintain blood glucose levels, regulate metabolism.....basically maintain homeostasis.
What is the Endocrine system?
Difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
To use tasks that the resident likes and enjoys, to prevent boredom
What is activity therapy?
This type of breathing is described as alternating periods of slow, irregular breathing and rapid, shallow breathing followed by periods of not breathing at all.
What is Cheyne-Stokes Respirations?