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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.

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Define activities of daily living (ADLs)

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Self-care activities people perform daily to remain independent and to function in society.

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Define advocate

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To speak or act on behalf of another person or group of people.

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Define Caring

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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.

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Define client-centred care

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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.

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Define dignity

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The state of feeling worthy, valued, and respected.

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What is DIPPS?

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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.

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7
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Define Scope of Practice

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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.

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define ageism

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Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward a person or group of people because of their age.

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Define assimilate

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Adopt the traditions of the larger society.

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Define Cultural competence

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The ability of a person to interact effectively with people from diverse cultural, gender, or socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Define Cultural Conflict

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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.

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Define Cultural Safety

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Actively inviting and creating a space for cultural expression within health care.

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Define Culture

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The characteristics of a group of people, including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music, and traditions.

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Define Diversity

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The state of different individuals and cultures coexisting.

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Define Ethnicity

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The sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion, or identity

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Define ethnic identity

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The ethnic background a person feels a part of, based usually on similar language and customs.

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blended family

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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

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nuclear family

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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.

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Define prejudice

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An attitude that forms an opinion or prejudges a person based on their membership in a group

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Define racism

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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.

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same-sex family

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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.

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Define sexism

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Feelings of intolerance or prejudice toward a person or group of people because of their gender.

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single-parent families

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Families in which the adult head of the household does not have a partner who shares the home. Also called lone-parent families.

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Define Stereotype

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An overly simple or exaggerated view of a group of people.

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25
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What are the levels of Maslows hierarchy of needs?

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Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Love and Belonging, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualization

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What is PASS?

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Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep

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27
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Code Red?

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Fire

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28
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Code orange?

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Mass Casualties

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Code white?

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violence

30
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Code brown?

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biohazard spill

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Code yellow?

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Missing patient

32
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Code black?

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bomb threat

33
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Code blue?

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Medical emergency/cardiac arrest

34
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What are the steps for problem solving?

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  1. Identify 2. Analyze 3. Plan 4. Evaluate
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What is PPE?

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Personal Protective Equipment

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What are the steps of Care Planning?

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  1. Assessing 2. Consulting 3. Establishing 4. Defining 5. Identifying 6. Creating 7. Implementing 8. Evaluating
37
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Why do we use PPE?

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To minimize the risk of exposure.

38
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Where can you find information about your client?

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Care Plan

39
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What is a Care Conference?

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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)

40
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Define chemical restraints

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Medication that is ordered by a doctor and given to a client to control unsafe, undesirable, or bizarre behaviour or movement.

41
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What is Acuity?

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The severity of an illness or injury.

42
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What is Intensity?

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The energy required to care for a resident/patient.

43
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What is interdependence?

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The state of depending on each other.

44
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What is a chemical restraint?

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medications used to control behaviour or movement

45
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What is an environmental restraint?

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near the body but not directly attached to it. i.e. locked door, bed rails, chairs with attached trays

46
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What is a physical restraint?

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Garments or devices to restrict movement of the whole body or parts of the body

47
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define stereotype

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an overly simple or exaggerated view of a group of people

48
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define ethnocentrism

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the belief that ones own culture or ethnic group is better or more important than the others, less obvious than racism

49
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define ethnicity

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the sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion or identity

50
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R.A.C.E

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remove, alarm, confine, evacuate

51
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what is caring?

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caring is concern for clients, as well as their family’s, their dignity, independence, preferences, privacy and safety

52
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what are the 5 goals of client centered care?

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  1. The resident will feel safe
    2.the resident will feel physically comfortable
  2. the resident will experience a sense of control
  3. the resident will experience minimal stress
  4. the resident will experience meaning and pleasure
53
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define gerontology

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the study of the aging process

54
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define geriatrics

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branch of medicine that provides care for older adults

55
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old age integumentary changes

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changes in the physical appearance, such as, hair, skin, nails, outer body

56
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old age muscular and skeletal system changes

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muscle atrophy shrinks and decreases in strength

57
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old age circulatory system changes

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heart muscle weakens with age, heart pumps blood through body with less force

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old age respiratory system changes

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respiratory muscles weaken with age, lung tissue becomes less elastic

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old age nervous system changes

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aging affects senses- hearing and vision impairment, smell, taste

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old age reproductive system changes

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female: menopause, stops menstrating, ova cease to reproduce
male: hormone testosterone decreases

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old age endocrine system changes

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glands and organs make hormones and release them into blood

62
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old age digestive system changes

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changes in the digestive system caused by aging, saliva production decreases, appetite decreases, swallowing becomes difficult

63
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what are signs of caregiver stress/burnout?

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denial, anger, withdrawing socially, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, sleeplessness, emotional reactions, lack of concentration, health problems

64
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if you dont report a __________, it didnt happen.

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a patient fall or injury

65
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define gender identity

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each persons individual experience of gender

66
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define gender expression

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how a person publicly presents their gender

67
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define transgender

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an umbrella term referring to people with diverse gender identities and expressions that differ from gender norms

68
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define sexual orientation

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describes patterns of sexual attractions

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