Types of Illnesses and Nursing Professions

Sudden illness from which the person is expected to recover.

On-going illness that is slow or gradual in onset. There is no known cure.

The person will likely not recover.

<p>Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on a person's total care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health care program/agency for people who are dying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nursing care - RNs, LPNs/LVN, and CNAs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Complete a 2, 3, or 4 year nursing program and has passed the licensing test.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1 year nursing program and passed licensing test.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Passed a nursing assistant training and competency program.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Separating a person from others against his or her own will.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person who has the legal right to act on the patient or resident's behalf.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The care provided to maintain or restore health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, or intimidation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without consent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Touching a person's body without consent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act, behavior, or thought that warns of a boundary crossing or violation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laws concerned with relationships between people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act that a criminal law prohibits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laws concerned with offenses against the public and society in general.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Injuring a person's name or reputation by making false statements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To authorize another person to perform a nursing task.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver to an older adult.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Violating a person's right not to have their private affairs exposed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A document that describes what the agency expects you to do.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A rule of conduct made by a government body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making false statements in print, writing, or through pictures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Negligence by a professional person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Failure to provide the person with goods or services needed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nursing care or function that can be delegated to nursing assistance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Separates helpful behaviors from behaviors that are not helpful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act, behavior, or comment of a sexual nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying information and information about health care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person's behaviors and way of living that threatens health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making false statements orally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Person 18 years or older at risk due to a disability or condition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trusting others with personal and private information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To spread rumors or talk about the private matters of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To trouble, torment, or worry a person by one's behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A staff member who guides another staff member; mentor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most important thing at the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Following laws, being ethical, and having good work ethics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The response or change in the body caused by an emotional factor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Staff members working together as a group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior in the workplace.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The exchange of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Report given by the nurse at the end of the shift.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legal account of a person's condition and treatment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Written guide about a person's nursing care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A health problem that can be treated by nursing measures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Method nurses use to plan and deliver nursing care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information that is seen, heard, felt, or shared by an observer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Things a person tells you about that you cannot observe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Written account of care and observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Setting priorities and goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using the senses to collect information.</p> Signup and view all the answers