Person receiving care in a hospital
What is a patient?
There are no official requirements for educational programs, and this type of professional must adhere to codes of behaviour dictated by the employer
What is an Unregulated Provider? (UCP)
State of different individuals and cultures coexisting
What is Diversity
Physical health Emotional health Social health Spiritual health Cognitive health are referred to as?
What are the 5 dimensions of health?
Person receiving care in their own home
What is a Client/Customer?
This refers to the legal limitations of working within your specific role
What is scope of practice?
An attitude toward, or an opinion of a person based upon their membership in a group
What is prejudice?
The loss of physical or mental health
What is illness?
Person receiving care in a long-term care or retirement facility
What is a Resident?
Principles or values that guide us when deciding what is right or wrong
What is Ethics?
Occurs when someone tries to dictate what another person’s culture should be
What is cultural conflict?
Illnesses and disabilities that last for a relatively short period of time (typically less than 3 months)
What is acute?
Person who helps with personal needs, and reports changes in client condition
What is a Support Worker?
Fundamental principles of behaviour that each person believes to be right or wrong for themselves
What are Morals?
Groups of people who share a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion or identity
What is ethnicity?
This is a concept that considers the whole person
What is holistic?
What is a nurse?
All people should be treated in a fair and equal manner
What is justice?
This can convey comfort, caring, love, and affection. Not everyone is comfortable with it. Remember to ask permission first.
What is touch?
"a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”(WHO)
What is health?