Chapter 1 Terms Flashcards
Long-Term Care (LTC)
Care given in long-term care facilities for people who 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 care facility.
Terminal Illness
A disease or condition that will eventually cause death.
Chronic
Long-term or long-lasting.
Diagnoses
Medical conditions determined by a doctor.
Home Health Care
Health care that is provided in a persons home.
Assisted Living
Residences for people who do not need 24–hour skilled care, but do 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 provided.
Acute Care
24-hour skilled care given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers for people who require short-term immediate care for illness and injuries.
Subacte Care
Care given in hospitals or in LTC facilities for people who need less care than acute illness, but more care than for chronic illness.
Outpatient Care
Care given to people who have had treatments, procedures or surgeries and need short-term skilled care.
Rehabilitation
Care that is given by specialists to help restore or improve function after illness or injury.
Hospice Care
Holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately six months to less to live.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Daily personal tasks such as bathing; dressing; care for skin, nails, hair, and teeth; eating; drinking; walking; transferring and elimination.
Person-Centered Care
A type of care that places the emphasis on the person needing care and his/her individuality and capabilities.
Trauma-Informed Care
An approach to patient care that recognizes that people may have experienced trauma in their lives and that their trauma, experiences, and preferences should be considered while providing care.
Medicare
A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 and older, have certain disabilities, or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work.
Medicaid
A medical assistance program, for people who have a low income, as well as for people with disabilities.
Charting
Documenting info and observations about residents.
Assistive Devices
Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to preform activities for daily living.C
Chain of Command
The line of authority within a facility.
Liability
A legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.
Scope of Practice
The range of tasks that health care providers are llegally allowed to do according to 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 preform.
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 job.
Personal
Relating to ones life outside ones job, such as family, friends, and home life.
Professionalism
The act of behaving properly when working.
Compassionate
Being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and understanding.
Empathy
Identifying with the feelings of others.
Sympathy
Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others.
Tactful
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 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 info on rights for residents.
Cite
In a LTC, to find a problem through a survey.
Residents’ Rights
Numerous rights identified in the OBRA law that relate to how resident must be treated while living in a facility, they provide an ethical code of conduct for health care workers.
Informed Consent
The process in which a person with the help of a doctor makes informed decisions about his/her health care.
Abuse
Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone.
Physical Abuse
Any treatment, intentional or not that causes harm to a persons body.
Psychological Abuse
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, huumiliating, intimidating, isolating or insulting a person, or by treating him/her as a child.
Verbal Abuse
The use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person.
Sexual Abuse
Non-consexual sexual contact of any type.
Financial Abuse
The improper or illegal use of a persons money, possessions, property, or other assets.
Assault
A threat or harm to a person resulting in the person feeling fearful that he/she will be harmed.
Battery
The intentional touching of a person without her/his consent.
Domestic Violence
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.
False Imprisonment
The unlawful restraint of some that affects a person’s freedom of movement; including both the threat of being physically restrained and 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
An unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that created an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
Substance Abuse
The repeated use if legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful to oneself or others.
Neglect
The failure to provide needed care that results in physical or emotional harm to a person.
Negligence
A action, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that results in unintended injury to a person.
Malpractice
Injury to a person sure to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.
Ombudsman
A legal advocate for residents LTC facilities who helps resolve disputes and settle conflicts.
Confidentiality
The legal or ethical principle of keeping information private.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
A federal law that requires health information be kept private and secure and that organization take special steps to protect this information.
Protected Health Information (PHI)
A persons private health information, which includes, names, addresses telephone numbers, social security numbers, email addresses, and medical record numbers.
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
A detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in LTC facilities.
Incident
An incidents, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care that is not part of the normal routine in health care facility.
