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Mosby's Essential for Nursing Assistants
Chapter 1-6, And 8
1. acute illness: a sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover.
2. assisted living residence (ALS): a place that provides housing, personal care,
support services, and social activities in a home-like setting for persons needing help
with daily activities.
3. chronic illness: an on-going illness, slow of gradual in onset; it has no known
cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment.
4. health team: the many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on
the person's total care; interdisciplinary health care team.
5. hospice: a health care agency or program for persons who are dying
6. licensed practical nurse (LPN): a nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing
program and has passed a licensing test.
7. Licensed vocational nurse (LVN): see licensed practical nurse (LPN)
8. nursing assistant: a person who has passed a nursing assistant training and
competency evaluation program; preforms delegated nursing tasks under the su-
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pervision of a licensed nurse.
9. nursing team: those who provide nursing care - RNs, LPNs, LVNs, and nursing
assistants
10. registered nurse: a person who has completed a 2-, 3- , or 4- year nursing
program and has passed a licensing test.
11. terminal illness: an illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover.
12. ALR: Assisted living residence
13. DON: director of nursing
14. HMO: health maintenance organization
15. LPN: licensed practical nurse
16. LVN: licensed vocational nurse
17. PPO: preferred provider organization
18. RN: registered nurse
19. SNF: skilled nursing facility
20. board of directors (trustees): the governing body of a hospital
21. Nursing centers: usually owned by an individual, each center has an adminis-
trator.
22. subacute caare: a complex medical care or rehabilitation when hospital care is no
longer needed.
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23. functional nursing: XXXXXX is when each individual focuses on a certain task
and/or job in nursing care.
24. team nursing: XXXXXXX is when an RN leads a team of nursing staff and
delegates the care of certain persons to other nurses and NA.
25. primary nursing: XXXXXXXX is when an RN is responsible for a persons total
care.
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