Module 2: Intro to Healthcare and Resident's Rights Flashcards
Leaving place of employment without notice to the supervisor.
Abandonment
Knowingly causing harm by physical contact or inappropriate use of physical/chemical restraint, medication, or isolation.
Abuse
Patient is treated for a brief but severe illness, trauma or surgical procedure.
Acute Care
(APS) - a social services program provided by state and local governments serving older adults and adults with disabilities.
Adult Protective Services
How we think, feel and act towards others based on age.
Ageism
Intentionally making someone fear you will harm them.
Assault
Housing and services for people who need some help with daily care.
Assisted Living
Intentional touch without permission.
Battery
Trained and certified individuals who help nurses by providing non-medical assistance to patients.
Certified Nursing Assistant
A human health condition or disease that is persistent or long-lasting.
Chronic
Someone for whom services are performed.
Patient/Client
The right of patients to keep their records private.
Confidentiality
False statements presented as fact that harm someone’s reputation or character.
Defamation
Assignment of patient care tasks to assistive personnel while still being repsonsible for the outcome.
Delegation
Do Not Resuscitate - If someone has no vital signs, no action is to be taken to save their life.
DNR
Moral right and wrong.
Ethics
Taking advantage of a resident, for any reason, whether or not the resident is aware of it.
Exploitation
Intentionally and unlawfully restricting a patient’s movement.
False Imprisonment
Intentional deception or misrepresentation knowing it could result in unauthorized benefit to themselves or someone else.
Fraud
A medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique needs of the elderly.
Geriatrics
Professionals from various disciplines working together to help a patient recover as fully as possible.
Healthcare Team
National standards to prevent sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health care services performed at the patient’s home.
Home Health
The kind of health care that focuses on a patient who has 6 months or less to live.
Hospice
An institution that is built, staffed, and equipped to diagnose and treat the sick and injured.
Hospital
A group of health care professionals, with various areas of expertise, working together for client benefit.
Interdisciplinary
Statement of work position requirements, qualifications expected, wage range, for the prospective of the employee..
Job Description
If a healthcare provider causes harm to patient, they need to pay damage because they are . . .
Liabile
Type of nurse that performs basic medical tasks, personal cares, and medication administration.
Licensed Practical Nurse
When an individual need assistance with activities of daily living, and/or medical treatment for an extended period of time or permanently.
Long-term Care
Any act or omission by a physician that deviates from accepted norms and causes an injury to the patient.
Malpractice
Holding a professional position (like social worker, physician, teacher, or counselor) that requires reporting cases of abuse or suspected abuse.
Mandated Reporter
Government Health Insurance for the poor and indigent.
Medicaid
Doctor of medicine - They treat and diagnose conditions using conventional medical tools like x-rays, prescription drugs, and surgery.
Medical Doctor (MD)
Government Insurance for the elderly.
Medicare
Deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, use of a resident’s belongings without consent.
Misappropriation of Property
Failure to recognize obvious signs of physical injury, medical illness, or mental health. Not providing needed care, either purposefully or inadvertently.
Neglect
Groups of professional and non-professional personnel working together to identify, plan, implement and evaluate client-centered care.
Nursing Team
Legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 1987, to improve the quality of care in long-term care facilities and to enhance the life quality of residents.
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
Someone who helps resolve conflicts and concerns for those in Care Facilities.
Ombuds or Ombudsman
The Federal Agency which creates and enforces standards for workplace safety.
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
Professionals who use meaningful activities to help people of all ages prevent, lessen, or adapt to disabilities.
Occupational Therapist
Treatment that does not require hospitalization.
Outpatient Care
The person who is needing medical treatment.
Patient
The right to medical care without discrimination.
Patient Rights
The branch of medicine that involves medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Pediatric
The right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.
Personal Dignity
Using qualities of compassion, empathy, respect and responsiveness to the needs expressed by each individual patient.
Person-directed Care or Person-centered Care
Any information created in the course of providing healthcare, that can be used to identify the patient.
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Demonstrating respect, compassion, and integrity; regardless of personal standards and beliefs.
Professionalism
A trained individual who helps people improve their physical movement/function.
Physical Therapist (PT)
Someone who has graduated from a state-approved school, passed the NCLEX Exam and received their license.
Registered Nurse
A set of interventions designed to improve functioning and reduce disability.
Rehabilitation
The person who is living in a care facility and requiring assistance with ADLs.
Resident
The right to receive personal care that accommodates physical, medical, emotional and social needs.
Resident Rights
Health care discipline specializing in pulmonary function, health and wellness.
Respiratory Therapy
Activities that a person licensed to practice as a health professional is permitted to perform.
Scope of Practice or Scope of Responsibility
Mistreatment involving sexual overtones, including unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Can be physical and/or verbal.
Sexual Harassment
Skilled nursing care provided by trained registered nurses in a medical setting under a doctor’s supervision.
Skilled Nursing Facility
Professionals who are devoted to helping vulnerable people and communities work through challenges they face in everyday life.
Social Worker
Experts in communication. SLPs treat many types of communication and swallowing problems.
Speech Therapist/Speech Language Pathologist
A patient whose illness will eventually end their life.
Terminally Ill
Purposeful infliction of injury, confinement, intimidation, or punishment resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish.
Willful infliction of harm.
How we think, feel and act toward others based on age.
Ageism
The illegal use of money, property or other assets of someone who is physically or mentally unable to care for themselves.
Exploitation
A written, legal document that outlines medical treatments you would and would not want to be used to keep you alive.
Living will
To treat someone in a way that is respectful of them as valued individuals.
Personal dignity
Any information in the medical record that can be used to identify an individual and was created in the course of providing a health care.
Protected Health Information (PHI)
Diagnoses and treats a wide range of speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders.
Speech Therapist/Speech-Language Pathologist
