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Chapter 1 vocab Flashcards

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Acute Illness

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A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover

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Assisted Living Resident (ALR)

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Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily activities

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Case Management

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Coordinates the care of specific groups of patients from admission to discharge and into home or long-term care

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Chronic illness

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On-going illness, slow/gradual/onset, no cure but can be controlled with treatment

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Functional nursing

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Nurse care pattern (4/5); Focusing on certain tasks and jobs for each nursing team member to do

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Health team

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Interdisciplinary health team whose skills and knowledge focus on the person’s total care

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Hospice

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Health care agency/program for people dying

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Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

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Nurse that completed the practical nursing (PN) program and passed the licensed test (L). Aka LVN - (V-vocational)

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Nursing assistant

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Passed the NA program; performs delegated nursing tasks from a Licensed Nurse.

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Nursing team

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Those who provide nursing care - RN, LPN/LVN, NA

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Patient-Focused care

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Nursing care pattern(1/5); services moved from department to bedside

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Primary Nursing

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Nursing care pattern(2/5); RN does person’s total care

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Registered Nurse (RN)

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Completed 2,3,4-year nursing and licensed

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Surveyor

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Person that collects information by observing and asking questions

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Team nursing

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Nurse care pattern(3/5); team of nursing staff lead by RN who decides amount/type of care each person needs

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Terminal illness

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Illness or injury patient won’t recover from

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DON (abbreviation)

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Director Of Nursing

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LPN (abbreviation)

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Licensed Practical Nurse

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LVN (Abbreviation)

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Licensed Vocational Nurse

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RN (Abbreviation)

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Registered Nurse

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SNF (Abbreviation)

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Skilled Nursing Facility

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Case management

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Nurse care pattern (5/5); coordinates the care of specific groups of patients from admission to discharge, then to home/long-term care

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P.R.I.D.E.

See pg 10 specifics

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Personal and professional responsibility

Rights and respect

Independence and social interaction

Delegation and Teamwork

Ethics and Laws

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