Mosby's nursing assistant 7th edition
Chapter1
Acute illness - ✔✔A sudden illness from which a person is expected to
recover.
Assisted living resident - ✔✔Provides housing, personal care, support
services, health care, and social activities in A home like setting
Case management - ✔✔A nursing care pattern; a case manager ( RN)
coordinates a person's care from Admission through discharge and into the
home setting.
Chronic illness - ✔✔An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no
known cure; the illness can be controlled and complications prevented with
proper treatment.
Functional nursing - ✔✔A nursing care pattern focusing on tasks and jobs;
each nursing team member has certain tasks and jobs to do.
Health team - ✔✔The many health care workers whose skills and
knowledge focus on the persons total care; interdisciplinary health care
team.
Hospice - ✔✔A health care agency or program for persons who are dying.
Licensed practical nurse ( LPN) - ✔✔A nurse who has completed a 1 year
nursing program and has passed a licensing test; called licensed vocational
nurse ( LVN) in some states.
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