Chapter 2 Flashcards
What are activities of daily living (ADLs)?
Personal daily care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, caring for teeth and nails, eating, drinking, walking, transferring, and elimination.
What are assistive devices?
Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform activities of daily living; also called adaptive devices.
What are adaptive devices?
Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform activities of daily living; also called assistive devices.
What is charting?
Documenting information and observations about residents.
What does professional mean?
Having to do with work or a job.
What does personal mean?
Relating to life outside one’s job, such as family, friends, and home life.
What is professionalism?
The act of behaving properly when working.
What does compassionate mean?
Being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and understanding.
What is empathy?
Identifying with the feelings of others.
What is sympathy?
Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others.
What does tactful mean?
Showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others.
What does conscientious mean?
Guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled.
What is the chain of command?
The line of authority within a facility or agency.
What does liability mean?
A legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.
What is scope of practice?
Defines the tasks that health-care providers are legally allowed to do as permitted by state or federal law.
What is delegation?
Transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task.
