Success in VN Flashcards
Leave a patient unit without a nurse of equal skill and education assigned to provide care for your assigned patient.
Abandonment
Certification in managed care (CMCN). Offered by the American Board of Managed Care Nursing. Certification valid for 3 years.
ABMCN
Summary of a research article
Abstract
Obligation to answer for personal actions
Accountability
Adopting the culture of a different group
Acculturation
Taking charge of own education
Active learning
Listener who is open minded and curious and is always asking questions about content
Active listener
Hearing sounds and searching for information relevant to those sounds so the sounds may be understood
Active listening
Higher level of care required for seriously ill patients
Acute care
Adult form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, includes undependable memory and learning systems.
Adult ADHD
Assistive and health care services provided in the home
Adult care home
A service that provides mental stimulation, socialization, assistance with some activities of daily living (ADLs), and basic observation. Services often include transportation, meals, therapeutic activities, nursing interventions, and rehabilitation activities. The service is hospital based or freestanding.
Adult day care center
Written documents to state personal wishes regarding future health care
Advance directives
Post registered nurse (RN) degree, resulting in an expanded role (e.g. clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist
Advance Practice
Sending or receiving information through feeling tone.
Affective communication
An attacking type of behavior that occurs in response to frustration and hostile feelings
Aggressive
A person who holds the belief that the existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved
Agnostic
Muslim name of the one supreme being; God of Islam.
Allah
New partnerships among hospitals, clinics, laboratories, health care systems, and physicians. They coordinate the delivery of care, contain costs, and attempt to provide a seamless system.
Alliances
Homes for the poor and sick in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Almshouses
Primary health care services for walk in patients. Also known as Urgent Care, Express Care and Quick Care
Ambulatory care facilities
One-day surgery centers that perform surgery at a scheduled date and time. Patient discharged home when recovered from surgery and is stable
Ambulatory surgery centers
Break down complex information into its basic parts and relate it to the whole picture
Analysis
a way to deal with unjustified or inappropriately displayed anger
Anger management
