Exam Questions Flashcards
Holistic care
Taking care of pt emotional and physical needs
Healthcare team
Anyone in the medical field involved in pts health
Assisted living facility
Provides care for clients who need minimal help
Long term care
Provides care for people unable to care for themselves
Skilled nursing facility
Provides care for clients who need rehabilitation
OBRA
(1987) For people in long term care making sure they receive certain standard of care
Joint commission
Sets national standards of all types of Healthcare organizations
OSHA
Protects health and safety of American workers (safety in the work place)
Medi(care)
Insurance plan
Medic(aid)
Helps people with low incomes. Pays for healthcare
MDS (minimum data sets)
Report on degree of assistance/skilled care resident of long-term care
Advanced directive
A document that allows a person to make his own wishes regarding healthcare
Living will
States a person’s wish to not prolong death
Durable power of attorney
Transfers responsibility for a person’s affairs and making decisions to a family member
HIPPA
Privacy protection for health information
Ethics
Our behavior in a workplace
Work ethics
A person’s attitude, gossiping, tardy
Communicating with a person who has HEARING LOSS
Face the person.
Use note pad.
Consider learning sign language.
Make sure hearing aids are on, volume up.
Communicating with a person with SPEECH DIFFICULTIES
Ask yes or no answers.
Atrophy
Muscle loss
Respiratory (aging)
Lung tissue loss.
Diaphragm and intercostal muscles become weaker.
Hemoglobin
Red blood cells (contain oxygen)
Leukocytes
White blood cells (fights infections)
Systole
Heart contaction (top BP #)
Diastole
Heart relaxes (bottom BP #)
Neuron
Sends/receives information
General sense
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch
Fissure
Crack in the skin
Ulcer
Crater like open sore
Phantom pain
Sensation feelins of a body part that is gone
DNR
Do Not Resuscitate
NPO
Nothing By Mouth
Heart disease risk factors
Age
Gender
Hereditary
Body build
Smoking
Overweight
High diet, fats, cholesterol, sodium
Hypertension
Diabetes
Stroke
Blocked blood flow to the brain
Aphasia
Affects persons ability to communicate
Caring for a BLIND PERSON
speak normal.
Describe things around you
Knock to enter.
Leave door completely open or closed
Supportive care
Treatments that’s will not prolong life but will make you comfortable
Palliative care
Relieving uncomfortable symptoms, not curing symptoms
Monitor I & O
Monitors intake and output of fluids
Changes in fluid can raise or lower a BP.
Monitors kidneys functions.
When NOT to shave a person
When on blood thinners
Where do pressure Ulcers occur most?
Back of head, down the spine, Lower back, and hips, heels, bony joints