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Fund 38-39 44,45,37 Flashcards

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What is the client unit for home care

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Any place where care and equipment can be placed

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What is the client unit at the hospital?

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Be area or hospital room

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Name 3 hospital care settings

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Hospital
LTC or ECF
Home care

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What is LTC or ECF

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Long term care or extended care facility where patients go after acute care

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Name a few things you can do to promote safety and comfort to clients

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Control odors
Keep noise levels down
Provide privacy
Maintain cleanliness
Explain call bell and equipment
I trod ice yourself
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Side rails are considered restraints in what type of care setting

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LTC or ECF

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What are reasons side rails are used in hospitals

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Patient safety & used as an enabler for clients to turn positions

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Why is housekeeping important to the staff

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Clean client rooms upon discharge or transfer

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Name 5 provisions of nursing care

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Check physicians order
Review care plan
Identify client two times
Explain procedures to client
Document 
Provide privacy
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What is the provision of nursing care

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General guidelines for performing nursing procedures

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direct care providers are

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Licensed personnel

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RPT

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Registered physical therapist

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OT

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Occupational therapist

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RT

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Respiratory therapist

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CT

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Cardiac pulmonary therapist

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OB

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Obstetrics

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P

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Pediatrics

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OR

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Operating room

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PACU

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Post anesthesia recovery

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RR

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Recovery room

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ASU

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Ambulatory surgical unit

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UAP

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Unlicensed assisting personnel

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Medsurg

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Is surgical floor

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Ortho

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Orthopedics

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Neura

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Neurology

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GU

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Genital urinary

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Geri

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Geriatrics

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Gyn

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gynecology

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Derm

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Dermatology

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Largest organ of the human body

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Skin

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ER

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Emergency room

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ICU

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Intensive care unit

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NICU

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Neonatal care unit

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PICU

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Pediatrics

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SICU

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Surgical care

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MICU

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Medical care

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TICU

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Thoracic intermediate care unit

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CCU

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Coronary cardiac unit

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38
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What are reasons for dialysis

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When kidneys re malfunctioning

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CD

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Chemical dependency

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CDU

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Clinical decision unit

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Intermediate care unit??

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Acute - care where patients get quick care and go home

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42
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Self Care

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When patients can assist themselves

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43
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PMMR

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Physical medicine rehab

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SAR

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Sub acute rehab

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Hospice is

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A facility where people go who have less than 6 months to live

46
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OPD dept

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Outpatients

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Urgent care or fast track

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Where they assess you quickly

48
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Staff support

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Secretaries
housekeeping
Pharmacy
Medical records
Dietary
49
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What do quality assurance and safety committees do

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Study incident reports and find ways to promote safety and accident prevention

50
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Factors that cause fall accidents

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Improper footwear
Medications impair patients
Incontinence

51
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What are some type of equipment used for prevention

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Alarms
Rails
Wander guards
Bed sensors

52
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Types of restraints

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Hand mits
Rails
Bed restraints

53
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environmental hazards

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Gasses fires or leaks

54
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Occupational hazards

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Chemical accidents
Needles
Radiation

55
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Why is it important not to touch chemo mess with your hands

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Can be absorbed in the skin

56
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PPE

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Personal protective equipment

57
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MSDS

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Material safety data sheets -

Instructions on chemical breakdown of material and exposure instructions

58
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Procedure when seeing a spill

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Follow hospital procedure
Avoid and hold breathe
Get help

59
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Following any accident you must

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File an incident report

60
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fruits and flowers are dangerous to patients bc

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Pesticides and bacteria

61
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Glass products, belts neck ties are hazardous to what type of patients

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Psych patients

62
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how do you know what to feed patients

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Follow nutrition plan by dietician

63
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Name the two types of disasters

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Internal and external

64
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The assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties

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Triage

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Name three ways you can move clients during a disaster

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Horizontally
Vertically
Completely out of the bldg

66
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Name three evacuation teqniques for patients in order

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Ambulatory
Wheel chair
Bed ridden

67
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Name a few things you can do when you answer a bomb threat

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Keep caller on phone

signal for help

68
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What do you do when there is a fire

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RACE-
Remove
Alarm
Confine
Extinguish
69
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Name the three types of extinguishers

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Type A - water to put out paper fires
Type B - chemical and gas fires
Type C - dry chemicals and electrical fires

70
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When you put out a wood or paper fire with an extinguisher what method do you use

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Pass-
Pull
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep
71
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Giving receiving and interpreting information through any of the 5 senses by two or more interacting people

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Communication

72
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Name the steps of the nursing process

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ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Intervention
Evaluating
73
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An interaction that is helpful and healing for one or more of the participants. Makes client feels nurtured and cared for

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Personal characteristics of genuiness, caring, trust, empathy, and respect from the nurse to te client

74
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Name the components of communication

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Sender
Message
Medium or channel
Receiver
Interaction
75
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Name the three types of communication

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Verbal
Non verbal
Oral

76
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Level of illness

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Acuity

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Types of verbal communication

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Spoken words and written words

78
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What are some reasons to why someone speaks very loud

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Hearing impairment
Cultural
Difficulty speaking

79
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What are some reasons as to why someone’s would speak very soft

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Cultural
Lack of self confidence
Paranoid
Nervous

80
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Unable to speak

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Aphasia

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Types of nonverbal communication

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Body language
Facial expressions
movements

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Name types of oral communication

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Vocal sounds

Grunts

83
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Levels of personal space

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Intimate
Personal
Social
Public

84
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Factors that affect communication. Barriers

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Age barriers
Language barriers 
Cultural
Religious
Disabilities
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A defect in or loss of the ability to speak or ability to comprehend speech & communication

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Aphasia

86
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Difficulty in speaking or finding correct word

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Expressive aphasia

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A disorder of the brain that interferes with understanding or comprehension

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Receptive aphasia

88
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The study of personal space

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Proxemics

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Haptic communication

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Therapeutic touch

90
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Arrival or entrance into a healthcare facility and the activities that surrounded it

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Admission

91
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Documented set of instructions that a client executes in the event that they cannot make health care decisions on their own due to incapacitation

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Advanced directing

92
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Two other names for advanced directive

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Will

Health care proxy

93
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Denotes someone you have chosen to make decisions for you in the event that you can’t make them for yourself

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Health care proxy

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BRP

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Bathroom privileges

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Depriving a person of spirit , privacy , personality and human quality

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Dehumanization

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False evidence of appearing real

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Fear

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Vital signs

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Temp
Pulse
Respirations
Pulse oximetry
Blood pressure
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Name three types of weighing scales

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Standing scale
Wheel chair scale
Bed scale

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VORB

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Verbal order read back

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TORB

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Telephone order read back

101
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Md must sign torb or vorb within

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24 hours

102
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Absent with out leave

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AWOL

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Against medical advice

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AMA

104
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If a client tries to leave AMA what is needed

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A witness

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D/C begins on the day of

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Admission

106
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Client departments transfers depend on

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Acuity

107
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before any transfer can be done you need

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A doctors order

108
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Demographics
D/C plans
DX
Medical orders
Advanced directives
Flow sheets
TX 
Are all found on
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Client charts

Health records

109
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Purpose of the health record

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Communication between staff
Evidence
Educational purposes
Legal and financial requirement to insurance companies

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2 types of health care records

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Electronic

Paper

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MIS

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Medical information system

112
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EMR

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Electronic medical record

LPN Level 1 (19 decks)

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