Hartmans nursing assistant care

Long-term care

Caregiving and long-term facilities for people need 24-hour skilled care.

Skilled care

Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist

length of stay

The number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility

Terminal illness

A disease or condition that will eventually cause death

Chronic

Long term or long lasting

diagnosis

Positions determination of an illness

Home health care

Caravan is provided in a persons home

Assisted living

Residences for people who do not need skilled 24 hour care but do you require some help with daily care

Adult day services

care for people who need some help during certain hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given

Acute care

24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers

subacute care

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

Care given for less than 24 hours for people who have had treatments or surgery and need short-term skilled care.

Rehabilitation

That is given By specialist to help restore or improve function after an illness or injury

Hospice care

Holistic compassionate care given to dying people and their families

Activities of daily living

Daily personal care tasks such as bathing caring for skin nails hair and teeth dressing toileting eating and drinking walking and transferring

Culture change

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

A type of care that place is the emphasis on the person needing care and his or her individuality and compatibility

Medicare

A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older are disabled who are ill and cannot work

Medicaid

A medical assistance program for people with low incomes as well as for people with disabilities

Charting

Documenting important information and observations about residents

Assistive devices

Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform activities of daily living also called adaptive devices

Chain of command

The line of authority within the facility

liability

A logical term that means someone could be held responsible for harming someone else

Scope of practice

defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally permitted to perform as allowed by state or federal law

Care plan

A plan developed for each resident to achieve certain goals; it outlines the steps and tasks that the care team must perform.

Policy

A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs

Procedure

A method or way of doing something

Professional

having to do with work or a job

Personal

Relating to life outside one's job, such as family, friends, and home life.

Professionalism

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

Caring concerned considerate empathetic and understanding

Empathy

Identifying the feelings of others

Sympathy

Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others

tactful

I showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others

Conscientious

Guided by a sense of right and wrong principled

Ethics

The knowledge of right and wrong

Laws

Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)

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

In a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey

Residents' Rights

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

The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, make informed decisions about his or her healthcare

abuse

Purposeful Miss treatment that causes physical mental or emotional pain or injury to someone

Neglect

The failure to provide needed care of that results in physical mental or emotional harm to a person

Physical abuse

Any treatment intentional or not that causes harm to a persons body

Physiological abuse

Emotional harm caused by threatening scaring humiliating intimidating and isolating or insulting a person or by treating him as a child also includes a verbal abuse

verbal abuse

the use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, or insult a person.

sexual abuse

the forcing of person to perform or participate in sexual acts against touching, exposing oneself, and the sharing of pornographic materials

financial abuse:

the improper or use of a person's money, possessions, property or other assets

assault

a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed

battery:

the intentional touching of a person without his or her consent.

domestic violence

physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.

false imprisonment:

unlawful restraint That affects a person's freedom of movement includes both the threat of being physically restrained an actually being physically restrained

Involuntary seclusion

The separation of a person from others Against the persons will

workplace violence

verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors

Sexual-harassment

any Unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that create an intimidating hostile or offensive working environment

Substance abuse

The repeated use of legal or illegal drugs of cigarettes or alcohol in any way that is harmful to oneself or others

Active neglect

the purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person

passive neglect

The unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, Or emotional harm to a person

Negligence

Actions or the failure to act or provide the proper care during that result in unintended injury to a person

Malpractice

Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence carelessness or lack of skill

Ombudsman

A legal advocate for residence in long-term care facilities helps resolve disputes and settle conflicts

Confidentiality

The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private

Health insurance portability and accountability act

A federal law that requires health information to be kept private and secure

Protected health information

A persons private health information which includes name address telephone number Social Security number email address and medical record number

Minimum data set

A detailed form with guideline for assessing residence in long-term care facilities also details what to do if resident problems are identified

Incident

An incident Problema unexpected event during the course of care that is not part of the normal routine in a healthcare facility facility

Communication

The process of exchanging information with others by sending and receiving messages

nonverbal communication

Communicating without using words

Verbal communication

Communication involving the use of spoken or written words are sounds

Objective information

Information based on what a person sees here's touches or smells also called sign

Subjective information

Information to a person cannot or did not observe but it's based on something reported to the person that may or may not be true also called symptom

Incontinence

The inability to control the bladder or bowel

Cliches

Phrases are used over and over again and do not really mean anything

Defense mechanisms

Unconscious behaviors used to release tension or cope with stress

Culture

A system of learned behavior of practiced by a group of people that is considered to be the tradition of that people and is passed on from generation to the next

Impairment

a loss of function or ability

Mental health

The normal functioning of emotional and intellectual abilities

mental illness

A disorder that affects a persons ability to function at a normal level in the family home, or community

Combative

Violent or hostile behavior

Body mechanics

The way the parts of the body work together when A person moves

Fracture

A broken bone

Disorientation

confusion about person, place, or time; may be permanent or temporary

Scalds

Burns caused by hot liquids

An injury yeah rubs off the surface of the skin

Conscious

The state of being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings sensations and thoughts

First aid

emergency care given immediately to an injured person

cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

Medical procedures used one a person's heart or lungs Have stopped working

Obstructed airway

A condition in which the tube through air enters the lungs is blocked

Abdominal thrusts

Method of attempting to remove an object on the airway of someone who is choking

Cyanotis

Skin that is blue or gray

Shock

A condition that occurs when an organ and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply

Dyspnea

difficulty breathing

Insulin reaction

Application of diabetes that can result from either too much and sign onto a little food also known as Hypoglycemia

diabetic ketoacidosis

A complication of diabetes that is caused by having two little insulin also called hyperglycemia

cerebrovascular accident

A condition that occurs my blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures within the brain also called stroke

Trasient Ischemic Attack (TIA)

A warning sign Of a CVA/stroke resulting from a temporary lack of oxygen in the brain symptoms may last up to 24 hours

emesis

the act of vomiting

infection prevention

the set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to prevent and control the spread of disease

microorganisms

A living thing or organism that is so small that it can only seen through a microscope is called Micro organism

Infection

The state resulting from pathogens invading the body and multiplying