Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care Chapter 1

Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist.

Number of days a person stays in a care facility.

<p>An illness that will eventually cause death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition lasting a long period of time, even a lifetime.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medical conditions determined by a doctor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care provided in a person's home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Residences for people who need some help with daily care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Services for people who need some help and supervision during certain hours.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>24 hour skilled care given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care given in a hospital or in a long-term care facility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care usually given for less than 24 hours.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care given by specialists to help restore or improve function after an illness or injury.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care given in facilities or homes for people who have about six months or less to live.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activities of Daily Living.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term given to the process of transforming services for elders based on the values and practices of the person receiving care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Care that emphasizes the individuality of the person who needs care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Equipment to assist in ADLs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes the line of authority and helps ensure that residents receive proper health care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tasks that health-care providers are allowed to do and how to do them correctly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A federal health insurance program established in 1965 for people aged 65 or older, also covers people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A medical assistance program for low-income people as well as for people with disabilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A plan developed to achieve the goals of care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method, or way, of doing something.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behaving properly when on the job.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being caring, concerning, empathetic, and understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying with the feelings of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trying to do your best, guided by a sense of right and wrong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge of right and wrong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requires that the Nurse Aid Training and Competency Evaluation Program set minimum standards for nursing assistant training.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers, relating to how residents must be treated while living in a facility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her healthcare.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person's body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emotional harm caused by threatening, humiliating, intimidating, or insulting a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forcing a person to perform or participate in sexual acts against his or her will.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The improper or illegal use of a person's money, possessions, property, or other assets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unlawful restraint that affects a person's freedom of movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The separation of a person from others against the person's will.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that harms oneself or others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Actions or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting in unintended injury.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs when a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poisoning, teeth marks, bruises, contusions, welts, scars, fractures, dislocations, burns, scalding burns, scratches or puncture wounds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yelling obscenities, fear, apprehension, withdrawal, and mood changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pressure ulcers, unclean body, unanswered call lights, and unmet needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assigned by law as legal advocate for residents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Keeping private things private.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Protected Health Information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care.</p> Signup and view all the answers