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Program that meets minimum standards established by the state agency responsible for overseeing education programs

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Approved program

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Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental agency grants recognition to an institution or agency for demonstration ability in a special area of practice

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Accreditation

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Process in which a individual or institution agency, or educational program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards

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Certification

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Pertaining to the total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person

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Holistic

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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

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Licensure

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Being answerable for ones own actions

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Accountability

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A person who acts on behalf of another person

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Advocate

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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

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Informed consent

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The way one should behave, how a person ought to act.

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Ethics

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Deliberately brining about the death of a person who is suffering from incurable disease or condition; can be done activity or passively

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Euthanasia

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A legal concept that holds a person illegally responsible for harm caused to another person or property

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Liability

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Professional misconduct; behavior that fails to meet the standard of care

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Malpractice

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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.

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Standards of care

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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

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Scope of practice

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An intentional threat to come bodily harm to another, does not have to include actual bodily contact

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Assault

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Unlawful touching of another person without informed consent

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Battery

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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

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Negligence

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The laws formally defining and limiting the scope of nursing practice

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Nurse practice act

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Commission

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Doing an act

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Omission

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Not doing an act

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Health insurance portability and accountability to protect the confidentiality of all health information

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HIPAA

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Protect, guard information about a patient no matter how you come to have that information

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Confidentiality

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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

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Do not resuscitate ; (DNR)

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Disease or a disease that emerges rapidly at a time or in an unusual pattern

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Epidemic

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Federal agency that is responsible for monitoring safety and health standards in the work place

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Occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)

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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)

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Pass

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Rescue the patient, sound the alarm, confined the fire, extinguish or evacuate

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RACE

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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.

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SRD’s

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Any unexpected event occurrence involving death or serious physical or physiological injury, or the risk thereof

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Sentinel event

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The use of biological agents to create fear and threat

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Bioterrorism

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Abnormal shortening of a muscle

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Contracture

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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

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Orthopeneic

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Underarm area or armpit

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Axilla

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Angle at the medial and lateral margins of the eyelid (inner and outer corners of the eye)

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Canthus

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Around an orbit; often referring to the eye

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Circumorbital

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Body temperature above normal

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Febrile

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Capable of causing disease

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Pathogenic

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A transient loss of consciousness due to inadequate blood flow to the brain

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Syncope

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Point of the abdomen at which the umbilical cord joined the fetus. In most adults it is marked as a depression

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Umbilicus

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Relating to or being transmission (as of a disease) by genetic inheritance or by a congenital or perinatal route

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Vertical

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Waste away; typically due to the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.

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Atrophy

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Nutrition, elimination, oxygenation, sexuality

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Physiologic

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Stability, protection, security, freedom fear & anxiety

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Safety & security

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Affection, acceptance by peers & community

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Love& belongingness

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Self-respect, self-confidence, feeling of self-worth

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Esteem

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Full use of individual talents

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Self-actualization

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Wrongful termination of providing patient care

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Abandonment of care

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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)

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Competency

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Spoken or written statements made maliciously and intentionally that may injure the subjects reputation

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Defamation

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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

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Harm

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A malicious or untrue writing about another person that is brought to the attention of others

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Libel or slander

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Failure to meet a legal duty, thus causing harm to another

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Malpractice

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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.

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Tort

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Partial or complete separation of a surgical incision or rupture of a wound closure.

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Dehiscence

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Free flow or withdrawal of fluids from a wound or cavity by some sort system (such as urinary catheter or t-tube)

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Drainage

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Protrusion of an internal organ through a disruptured wound or surgical incision

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Evisceration

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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

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Exudate

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Soft, pink, fleshy, projection consisting of capillaries surrounded by fibrous collagen that slowly fills the incision during process of healing.

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Granulation

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Surgical cut produced by a sharp instrument to create an opening into an organ or space in the body

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Incision

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Condition caused by the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.

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Infectious process

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A wound that has been made surgically and has little tissue loss; skin edges are close together and minimal scarring results

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Primary intention

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Stab wound for drainage system

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Puncture

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Producing or containing pus; pertaining to blood

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Purulent ] sanguineous

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Healing that occurs when skin edges of the wound are not close together or when pus is formed

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Secondary intention

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Thin, red exudate composed of serum portion of blood

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Serous

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Healing that occurs by primary intention with delayed suturing of a wound in which two layers of granulation tissue are sutured together

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Tertiary intention

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(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

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Culture

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To mucus , sputum, or fluids from the trachea and lungs by coughing or spitting

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Expectorate

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Detects occult(hidden) blood feces

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Hemocult

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Urine collected after voiding is initiated and termed before voiding is complete midstream

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Midstream urine specimen

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Hidden

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Occult

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