Terms
This defines the word providers
What is people or organizations that provide healthcare including doctors, nurses clinics and agencies
These individuals perform assigned tasks such as measuring vital signs, personal care such as bathing
What are NAs
This is behaving properly when on the job including dressing appropriately and speaking well.
What is professionalism
This is a course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs such as a keeping healthcare information confidential
What is a policy
This is care that emphasizes the individuality of the person who needs care and recognizes and develops the persons capabilities
What is person-centered care
This is a medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform CPR
What is a DNR order
This type of abuse is use of spoken or written words, pictures or gestures that threaten, embarrass or insult a person
What is verbal abuse
This is care given by specialists such as physical, occupational and speech therapists that help restore or improve function after an illness or injury
What is rehabilitation
These are places where care, is delivered or administered, including hospitals, long term care facilities and treatment centers
What are facilities
These individuals coordinates, manages and provides skilled nursing care such as administering prescribed meds and treatments
What are registered nurses
This is identifying with the feelings of others
What is empathy
This is a method or way of doing something for example a facility will have a method for reporting errors
What is a procedure
This is an approach to patient care that recognizes that people may have experienced trauma in their lives from witnessing or experiencing abuse or neglect, violence, prison or military combat.
What is trauma informed care
An order for end of life planning that specifies treatments to be used when a person is very ill
What is a POLST
This is the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person
What is neglect
This is care given to people who have approximately six months or less to live
What is hospice
These are payers
What are people or organizations paying for healthcare services. Including insurance companies, goernment programs like medicare and medicaid, individual patients
These are individuals that works alongside an RN to help administer medications
What is an LPN
This means showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others. The ability to speak and act without offending others
What is tactful
This is an independent not for profit organization that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations
What is Joint Commission
This is the nursing process
What is assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation
This is a signed dated and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make medical decisions for a person in the event that they become unable to do so
What is a durable power of attorney for health care or health care proxy
This means actions or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting in unintended injury such as an NA forgetting to put a side rale up after leaving a residents room and they fall out of bed
What is negligence
Medicare, Medicaid, Children's health insurance program, military health benefits from TRICARE are all examples of this.
What is public health insurance programs
Long term care is given to who
What is people who need 24 hour care
This is an individual that evaluates a person and develops treatment plan to increase movement, and prevent disability and regain or maintain movement.
What is physical therapist
This is when you try to do your best. You are alert, observant, accurate and responsible
What is conscientious
This defines the roles, responsibilities and procedure that are within the knowledge, training and legal definition of a profession
What is scope of practice
This is where the nurse would find information like the resident's diagnosis and limitations and goals and interventions
What is the care plan
This outlines the medical care a person wants or does not want in case the person becomes unable to make those decisions
What is a living will
This occurs when a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness or lack of skill
What is malpractice
Theses are facilities that help residence with daily care but not 24 hour care
This defines terminal illness
What is the illness will eventually cause death
What is a medical social worker
This means anticipating potential problems and needs before they occur.
What is proactive
This is transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task
What is delegation
These are the factors considered when formulating a care plan
What is the resident's goals and priorities, preference and expectations. The resident's health and physical condition, diagnoses and treatment
To keep private things private
What is confidentiality
This is emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating intimidating isolating or insulting a person or treating the person as a child
What is psychological abuse
These are for people who need some assistance and supervision during certain hours but who do not live in the facility where care is provided
What is adult day services
A condition or illness that lasts a long period of time
What is chronic illness
This is a person that helps residents learn to adapt to disabilities and help train residents to perform activities such as use of assistive devices
What is occupational therapist
This is giving each resident the same quality of care regardless of age, gender sexual orientation, gender identity religion race ethnicity or condition
What is unprejudiced
This is a legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming someone else
What is liability
This is how often the care plan is reviewed
What isas the resident's condition changes or at least every 60 days
The older Americans act ( OAA) is a federal law that requires all states to have this program that is the legal advocate for residents in long term care facilities.
What is ombudsman
This is a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that they will be harmed
What is assault
This is a federal agency within the US department of health and Human Services that runs the two national healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid
What is centers for Medicare and Medicaid services CMS