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Long-Term Care
Long-Term Care
A facility for people who need 24-hour skilled care.
What is a Long-term care facility (LTC)?
The process of exchanging information with others.
What is communication?
Needs that involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality.
What are psychosocial needs?
This system is also known as the digestive system.
What is the Gastrointestinal System.
The repetitive asking of questions, statements, phrases, actions, and or words.
What is perseveration?
A condition that lasts a long period of time, even a lifetime.
What is a chronic condition?
Information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells.
What is objective information?
Caring for the whole person - the mind as well as the body.
What is holistic care?
Body system made up of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
What is the Circulatory System.
The belief in things that are not true.
What are delusions?
An illness that will eventually cause death.
What is a terminal illness?
Something a person cannot or did not observe.
What is subjective information?
The different group of people with varied backgrounds and experiences living together in the world.
What is cultural diversity?
Body system in charge of taking in oxygen and removing carbon dioxide involves breathing in, inspiration , breathing out, expiration.
What is the Respiratory System?
Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and or feeling things that are not there.
What are hallucinations?
Noting important information about the resident.
What is charting or documenting?
The inability to control the bladder or bowels.
What is incontinence?
The ability to think and learn.
What is cognitive?
The largest organ and system in the body.
What is the Integumentary System?
Walking aimlessly around the facility.
What is wandering?
A legal term meaning someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.
What is liability?
A system of learned beliefs and behaviors that is practiced by a group of people.
What is culture?
Disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood.
What is developmental disabilities?
Muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage.
What are the parts of the Musculoskeletal System?
Walking back and forth in the same area.
What is pacing?
Task that healthcare provides are legally allowed to do as permitted by state or federal law.
What is scope of practice?
A loss of function or ability; can be a partial or complete.
What is impairment?
Lack of interest in activates.
What is apathy?
The functions of this system includes elimination of waste and water balance.
What is the Urinary System.
The ability to think logically and clearly.
What is cognition?
Important rights for residents in long-term care facilities.
What are Residents' Rights?
The normal functioning of emotional and intellectual abilities.
What is Mental health?
Uneasiness, worry, or fear. often about a situation or condition.
What is anxiety?
This systems identifies gender at birth.
What is the Reproductive System?
The inability to think clearly causing a person to have trouble focusing his attention and may feel disoriented.
What is confusion?
A law passed to help keep health information private and secure.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Federal government agency that makes rules to protect workers from hazards on the job.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
An intense, irrational fear of or anxiety about an object, place or situation.
What is a phobia?
These systems protects the body from disease-causing bacteria.
What is the Immune and Lymphatic Systems?
A general term that refers to a serious loss of mental abilities such as thinking, remembering, reasoning and communicating.
What is dementia?
Information that can be used to identify a person and related to the patient's condition, any health care that the person has had, and payment for that health care.
What is Protected Health Information.
A set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to prevent and control the spreads of disease.
What is infection prevention?
Care of the body after death.
What is postmortem care?
Control and message message center of the body and senses and interprets information from outside the body.
What is the function of the Nervous System.
A state of severe confusion that occurs suddenly and is usually temporary.
What is delirium?
Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone.
What is abuse?
Treating blood, body fluids, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes as if they were infected.
What is Standard Precautions?
Care that focuses on pain relief, comfort, and managing symptoms, rather than on teaching residents to care for themselves.
What is palliative care?
This system maintains homeostasis and the body's ability to reproduce.
What is the Endocrine System.
Tangles nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in the brain which has no current cure.
What is Alzheimer's disease?