Fundamentals Vocab Flashcards
Program that meets minimum standards established by the state agency responsible for overseeing education programs
Approved program
Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental agency grants recognition to an institution or agency for demonstration ability in a special area of practice
Accreditation
Process in which a individual or institution agency, or educational program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards
Certification
Pertaining to the total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person
Holistic
The granting of permission by a competent authority (usually government agency) to an organization or individual to engage in a practice or activity that would be otherwise be illegal
Licensure
Being answerable for ones own actions
Accountability
A person who acts on behalf of another person
Advocate
A legal doctrine that requires the patient to fully understand any proposed treatment and consent to it; this document gives the competent adult the choice to accept or reject any treatment modalities
Informed consent
The way one should behave, how a person ought to act.
Ethics
Deliberately brining about the death of a person who is suffering from incurable disease or condition; can be done activity or passively
Euthanasia
A legal concept that holds a person illegally responsible for harm caused to another person or property
Liability
Professional misconduct; behavior that fails to meet the standard of care
Malpractice
Those acts that are permitted to be preformed or prohibited from being performed by a product person working working within the limits of the training, licensing, experience, and conditions existing at the time of the duty to give care.
Standards of care
Give direction , spelling out what you have the obligation to do, what you have permission to do, and what you are prohibited from doing for the patients
Scope of practice
An intentional threat to come bodily harm to another, does not have to include actual bodily contact
Assault
Unlawful touching of another person without informed consent
Battery
The commission (doing) of an act or like omission (not doing) of an act that a reasonable prudent person would have performed in a similar situation, thus, causing harm to another person
Negligence
The laws formally defining and limiting the scope of nursing practice
Nurse practice act
Commission
Doing an act
Omission
Not doing an act
Health insurance portability and accountability to protect the confidentiality of all health information
HIPAA
Protect, guard information about a patient no matter how you come to have that information
Confidentiality
A note written in a patients record and signal by a qualified attending physician instructing the staff of the institution not to attempt to resuscitate the patients in the event of cardiac or respiratory failure
Do not resuscitate ; (DNR)
Disease or a disease that emerges rapidly at a time or in an unusual pattern
Epidemic
Federal agency that is responsible for monitoring safety and health standards in the work place
Occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)
Mnemonic that help you remember how to operate the fire extinguisher. (Pull the pin, aim at the base of the fire, squeeze the handle, sweep side to side)
Pass
Rescue the patient, sound the alarm, confined the fire, extinguish or evacuate
RACE
Safety reminder device, defined as any of the numerous devices used to immobilized a patient or part of the patient body, such as arms or legs.
SRD’s
Any unexpected event occurrence involving death or serious physical or physiological injury, or the risk thereof
Sentinel event
The use of biological agents to create fear and threat
Bioterrorism
Abnormal shortening of a muscle
Contracture
Position (the posture assumed by the patients sitting up in bed at 90 degree angle, or sometimes resting in forward tilt while supported pillow on overhead table
Orthopeneic
Underarm area or armpit
Axilla
Angle at the medial and lateral margins of the eyelid (inner and outer corners of the eye)
Canthus
Around an orbit; often referring to the eye
Circumorbital
Body temperature above normal
Febrile
Capable of causing disease
Pathogenic
A transient loss of consciousness due to inadequate blood flow to the brain
Syncope
Point of the abdomen at which the umbilical cord joined the fetus. In most adults it is marked as a depression
Umbilicus
Relating to or being transmission (as of a disease) by genetic inheritance or by a congenital or perinatal route
Vertical
Waste away; typically due to the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.
Atrophy
Nutrition, elimination, oxygenation, sexuality
Physiologic
Stability, protection, security, freedom fear & anxiety
Safety & security
Affection, acceptance by peers & community
Love& belongingness
Self-respect, self-confidence, feeling of self-worth
Esteem
Full use of individual talents
Self-actualization
Wrongful termination of providing patient care
Abandonment of care
A legal presumption that a person who has reached the age of majority can make decisions for herself or himself unless proved otherwise (if she or he has been legally declared incompetent)
Competency
Spoken or written statements made maliciously and intentionally that may injure the subjects reputation
Defamation
Injury to a person or the person’s property that gives rise to a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damaged
Harm
A malicious or untrue writing about another person that is brought to the attention of others
Libel or slander
Failure to meet a legal duty, thus causing harm to another
Malpractice
A type of civil law that involves wrongs against a person or property; torts include negligence, assault, battery, defamation, fraud, false imprisionment, and invasion of privacy.
Tort
Partial or complete separation of a surgical incision or rupture of a wound closure.
Dehiscence
Free flow or withdrawal of fluids from a wound or cavity by some sort system (such as urinary catheter or t-tube)
Drainage
Protrusion of an internal organ through a disruptured wound or surgical incision
Evisceration
Fluid, cells, or other substances that have been slowly exuded or discharged from body cells or blood vessels through small pores or breaks in cell membrane
Exudate
Soft, pink, fleshy, projection consisting of capillaries surrounded by fibrous collagen that slowly fills the incision during process of healing.
Granulation
Surgical cut produced by a sharp instrument to create an opening into an organ or space in the body
Incision
Condition caused by the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.
Infectious process
A wound that has been made surgically and has little tissue loss; skin edges are close together and minimal scarring results
Primary intention
Stab wound for drainage system
Puncture
Producing or containing pus; pertaining to blood
Purulent ] sanguineous
Healing that occurs when skin edges of the wound are not close together or when pus is formed
Secondary intention
Thin, red exudate composed of serum portion of blood
Serous
Healing that occurs by primary intention with delayed suturing of a wound in which two layers of granulation tissue are sutured together
Tertiary intention
(1) A set of learned valves, beliefs customs, and practices that are by a group and passed from generation to another. (2) A laboratory test revolving cultivation of microorganisms or cells in a special growth medium
Culture
To mucus , sputum, or fluids from the trachea and lungs by coughing or spitting
Expectorate
Detects occult(hidden) blood feces
Hemocult
Urine collected after voiding is initiated and termed before voiding is complete midstream
Midstream urine specimen
Hidden
Occult
