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100

Personal daily care tasks including, bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and hair, toileting, eating and drinking.

Activities of daily living (ADLs)

100

To communicate to staff a need for assistance. This should be available to residents at all times

Call light

100

An individual who has completed a state approved course and has successfully completed certification testing. This provides direct care.

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

100

The line of authority in the facility which addresses to whom each employee/department reports.

Chain of command

100

Beliefs, values, habits, diet and health practices that relate to a person's culture or religion

Cultural differences 

200

A system of behaviors people learn from the people by which they are surrounded.

Culture

200

Requires staff assistance to carry out activities of daily living.

Dependent

200

Transferring a strong negative feeling to something or someone else.

Displacement

200

Law that requires health information to be kept secure.

Health insurance portability and accountability act.

(HIPAA)

200

Able to carry out activities of daily living without staff assistance. 

Independent

300

A licensed professional who has completed 1 to 2 years of education and has completed an exam for licensure.

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

300

Care for a person who requires 24 hour care and assistance.

Long term care (LTC)

300

Information based on what is factually seen, heard, touched, or smelled. A direct observation

Objective Information

300

Resident advocate who investigates complaints and assists to achieve agreement between parties, often defending the rights of residents.

Ombudsman

300

a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs

Person centered care

400

How a person behaves when he/she is on the job.

Professionalism

400

Seeing feelings in others that are really ones own.

Projection

400

Making excuses to justify a situation

Rationalization

400

A licensed professional who has completed 2 to 4 years of nursing education and has completed the examination for licensure.

Registered nurse (RN)

400

Going back to an old immature behavior.

Regression

500

Blocking painful thoughts or feelings from the mind

Repression

500

The tasks for which a nurse aide is trained, thus, allowed to do. 

Scope of practice

500

Terms/words used that may be specific to a generation and not easily recognizable and/or easily misinterpreted by the resident.

Slang

500

Info that could not be or was not observed. The info is based on what a person thinks or something that was reported by another person that may or may not be true.

Subjective information

500

1) Directer of nursing

2)Licensed Nurse

3) CNA

Chain of command