Health and Healing - Concepts to Practice Flashcards
Chapter 1, 7, 11, 20 - Person centered care, basic human needs, role of family, role of diversity, critical thinking, safety.
Define activities of daily living (ADLs)
Self-care activities people perform daily to remain independent and to function in society.
Define advocate
To speak or act on behalf of another person or group of people.
Define Caring
Concern for clients’ and their families’ dignity, independence, preferences, privacy, and safety at all times. True caring requires honesty, sensitivity, comforting, discretion, and respect while showing this concern.
Define client-centred care
Care that demonstrates concern for the dignity, independence, individualized care, preferences, privacy, and safety (DIPPS) of clients and their families at all times. Also known as compassionate care or person-centredcare.
Define dignity
The state of feeling worthy, valued, and respected.
What is DIPPS?
An acronym for the six principles of client-centred care (also known as compassionate care or person-centred care):dignity, independence, individualized care, preferences, privacy, and safety.
Define Scope of Practice
The limit and extent of a health care worker’s role as determined by your province’s educational standards and your employer’s policies in order to protect clients from harm. Scope of practice in a health care field varies from province to province and employer to employer.
define ageism
Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward a person or group of people because of their age.
Define assimilate
Adopt the traditions of the larger society.
Define Cultural competence
The ability of a person to interact effectively with people from diverse cultural, gender, or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Define Cultural Conflict
Negative feelings and conduct that can result when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values and behaviours on people from another culture.
Define Cultural Safety
Actively inviting and creating a space for cultural expression within health care.
Define Culture
The characteristics of a group of people, including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music, and traditions.
Define Diversity
The state of different individuals and cultures coexisting.
Define Ethnicity
The sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion, or identity
Define ethnic identity
The ethnic background a person feels a part of, based usually on similar language and customs.
blended family
A couple with two or more children, one or more of whom is the natural child of one or both members of the couple and at least one is the stepchild of one of the partners
nuclear family
A family consisting of two partners and a child (or children) who live under one roof and are committed to mutually raising the child or children.
Define prejudice
An attitude that forms an opinion or prejudges a person based on their membership in a group
Define racism
Feelings of superiority over, and intolerance of or prejudice toward, a person or group of people who may have different physical appearance or cultural practices.
same-sex family
A family in which both adults who live together in a loving, intimate relationship are of the same gender; they may or may not have children.
Define sexism
Feelings of intolerance or prejudice toward a person or group of people because of their gender.
single-parent families
Families in which the adult head of the household does not have a partner who shares the home. Also called lone-parent families.
Define Stereotype
An overly simple or exaggerated view of a group of people.
What are the levels of Maslows hierarchy of needs?
Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Love and Belonging, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualization
What is PASS?
Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
Code Red?
Fire
Code orange?
Mass Casualties
Code white?
violence
Code brown?
biohazard spill
Code yellow?
Missing patient
Code black?
bomb threat
Code blue?
Medical emergency/cardiac arrest
What are the steps for problem solving?
- Identify 2. Analyze 3. Plan 4. Evaluate
What is PPE?
Personal Protective Equipment
What are the steps of Care Planning?
- Assessing 2. Consulting 3. Establishing 4. Defining 5. Identifying 6. Creating 7. Implementing 8. Evaluating
Why do we use PPE?
To minimize the risk of exposure.
Where can you find information about your client?
Care Plan
What is a Care Conference?
A meeting between resident, family, and care staff to discuss resident’s needs and to readjust careplan if needed. (upon admission followed by every 6 months)
Define chemical restraints
Medication that is ordered by a doctor and given to a client to control unsafe, undesirable, or bizarre behaviour or movement.
What is Acuity?
The severity of an illness or injury.
What is Intensity?
The energy required to care for a resident/patient.
What is interdependence?
The state of depending on each other.
What is a chemical restraint?
medications used to control behaviour or movement
What is an environmental restraint?
near the body but not directly attached to it. i.e. locked door, bed rails, chairs with attached trays
What is a physical restraint?
Garments or devices to restrict movement of the whole body or parts of the body
define stereotype
an overly simple or exaggerated view of a group of people
define ethnocentrism
the belief that ones own culture or ethnic group is better or more important than the others, less obvious than racism
define ethnicity
the sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion or identity
R.A.C.E
remove, alarm, confine, evacuate
what is caring?
caring is concern for clients, as well as their family’s, their dignity, independence, preferences, privacy and safety
what are the 5 goals of client centered care?
- The resident will feel safe
2.the resident will feel physically comfortable - the resident will experience a sense of control
- the resident will experience minimal stress
- the resident will experience meaning and pleasure
define gerontology
the study of the aging process
define geriatrics
branch of medicine that provides care for older adults
old age integumentary changes
changes in the physical appearance, such as, hair, skin, nails, outer body
old age muscular and skeletal system changes
muscle atrophy shrinks and decreases in strength
old age circulatory system changes
heart muscle weakens with age, heart pumps blood through body with less force
old age respiratory system changes
respiratory muscles weaken with age, lung tissue becomes less elastic
old age nervous system changes
aging affects senses- hearing and vision impairment, smell, taste
old age reproductive system changes
female: menopause, stops menstrating, ova cease to reproduce
male: hormone testosterone decreases
old age endocrine system changes
glands and organs make hormones and release them into blood
old age digestive system changes
changes in the digestive system caused by aging, saliva production decreases, appetite decreases, swallowing becomes difficult
what are signs of caregiver stress/burnout?
denial, anger, withdrawing socially, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, sleeplessness, emotional reactions, lack of concentration, health problems
if you dont report a __________, it didnt happen.
a patient fall or injury
define gender identity
each persons individual experience of gender
define gender expression
how a person publicly presents their gender
define transgender
an umbrella term referring to people with diverse gender identities and expressions that differ from gender norms
define sexual orientation
describes patterns of sexual attractions
