Vocabulary
Daily personal care tasks like bathing and dressing
What are ADLs?
The process of exchanging information with someone
What is Communication?
ADLs
What are Activities of Daily Living?
OBRA
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?
Showing sensitivity
What is being tactful?
Services for people who need help with their loved ones during the time when he or she is at work
What are Adult Day Services?
To be caring, concerned, considerate, and understanding is to be this.
What is compassionate?
LOS
What is length of stay?
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Telling the truth and able to be trusted
What is being honest?
Prejudice towards someone because of they are older or elderly
What is ageism?
When you are keeping private things private, you are said to be respecting this.
What is confidentiality?
LTC
What is Long-Term Care?
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
Identifying with the feelings of others
What is empathy?
The intentional touching of someone without their permission.
What is battery?
Documenting a problem during a survey of a healthcare facility
What is cite?
SLP
What is Speech Language Pathologist?
OAA
What is the Older Americans Act?
Trying to do your very best
What is conscientious?
Document that lets you know what to do for a resident because of the diagnoses he has.
What is a care plan?
When you make and keep commitments, you are this.
What is dependable?
MSW
What is Medical Social Worker?
NA
What is Nursing Assistant or Not Applicable?
Not losing your temper easily; Not complaining when things get hard
What is having patience?