Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics, 5th Edition 5th Edition By Hartman Publishing Inc, Jetta Fuzy
Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics, 5th Edition 5th Edition By Hartman Publishing Inc, Jetta Fuzy
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5th Edition By Hartman Publishing , Jetta Fuzy 9781604251005
ALL Chapters .
Long-term care - ANSWER: Caregiving and long-term facilities for people need 24-hour skilled care.
Skilled care - ANSWER: Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist
length of stay - ANSWER: The number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility
Terminal illness - ANSWER: A disease or condition that will eventually cause death
Chronic - ANSWER: Long term or long lasting
diagnosis - ANSWER: Positions determination of an illness
Home health care - ANSWER: Caravan is provided in a persons home
Assisted living - ANSWER: Residences for people who do not need skilled 24 hour care but do you
require some help with daily care
Adult day services - ANSWER: care for people who need some help during certain hours, but who do
not live in the facility where care is given
Acute care - ANSWER: 24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in
hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
subacute care - ANSWER: care given in a hospital or in a long-term care facility for people who need
less care than for an acute illness, but more care than for a chronic illness
Outpatient care - ANSWER: Care given for less than 24 hours for people who have had treatments or
surgery and need short-term skilled care.
Rehabilitation - ANSWER: That is given By specialist to help restore or improve function after an illness
or injury
Hospice care - ANSWER: Holistic compassionate care given to dying people and their families
Activities of daily living - ANSWER: Daily personal care tasks such as bathing caring for skin nails hair
and teeth dressing toileting eating and drinking walking and transferring
Culture change - ANSWER: A term given to the process of transforming services For elders so that
they are based on the values and practices of the person receiving care
Person directed care - ANSWER: A type of care that place is the emphasis on the person needing care
and his or her individuality and compatibility
Medicare - ANSWER: A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older are disabled
who are ill and cannot work
Medicaid - ANSWER: A medical assistance program for people with low incomes as well as for people
with disabilities
, Charting - ANSWER: Documenting important information and observations about residents
Assistive devices - ANSWER: Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform
activities of daily living also called adaptive devices
Chain of command - ANSWER: The line of authority within the facility
liability - ANSWER: A logical term that means someone could be held responsible for harming
someone else
Scope of practice - ANSWER: defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally permitted to
perform as allowed by state or federal law
Care plan - ANSWER: A plan developed for each resident to achieve certain goals; it outlines the steps
and tasks that the care team must perform.
Policy - ANSWER: A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs
Procedure - ANSWER: A method or way of doing something
Professional - ANSWER: having to do with work or a job
Personal - ANSWER: Relating to life outside one's job, such as family, friends, and home life.
Professionalism - ANSWER: How a person behaves when he is on the job it includes how a person
dresses the words he uses the things he talks about
Compassionate - ANSWER: Caring concerned considerate empathetic and understanding
Empathy - ANSWER: Identifying the feelings of others
Sympathy - ANSWER: Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others
tactful - ANSWER: I showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with
others
Conscientious - ANSWER: Guided by a sense of right and wrong principled
Ethics - ANSWER: The knowledge of right and wrong
Laws - ANSWER: Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure
order and safety
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) - ANSWER: Law passed by the federal government that
includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training staffing requirements, resident assessment
instructions, and information on rights for residents
Cite - ANSWER: In a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey
Residents' Rights - ANSWER: Numerous right identified in the OBRA act that related to how residents
must be treated while living in a facility, they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare
workers
Informed consent - ANSWER: The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, make informed
decisions about his or her healthcare
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