Unit one-Terms Flashcards
What is Abuse?
The willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish.
What does willful mean?
Willful mans the individual must have acted deliberately, not that the individual must have intended to inflict injury or harm.
What are advance directives?
A legal document that makes a person’s wishes known regarding life support issues. The document is used in the event the person is unable to speak for themselves.
What is aphasia?
Aphasia is impaired ability to speak and/or understand language; may also affect the ability to read and/or write
What are the bill of rights?
A state and federal law that protects the rights of residents in a long-term care facility or community.
What is the chain of command?
A list of who reports or answers to whom.
Confidentiality is what?
Not sharing spoken and/or written information about a resident.
What is a durable Power of Attorney?
A person appointed by the client to make healthcare decisions if the client is unable to due to illness or incapacitation.
What are ethics?
A standard of behavior for what is right or wrong.
What is Etiquette?
Rules of polite, courteous, kind, and respectful actions.
What does exploitation mean?
Taking advantage of a resident for personal gain.
Describe what a facility is.
It provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care. Care is provided for residents in need of help with activities of daily living.
What is involuntary seclusion?
Isolating a resident to their room or to a specific area in a nursing home. The isolation is against the resident or legal representative’s consent.
What is a job description?
Duties and responsibilities involved in a work position.
What is a living will?
A type of advanced directive. A written, legal document that lists what medical treatments you would or would not want to be used to keep yourself alive. Also includes other decisions such as pain management and organ donation
What is neglect?
The failure of the facility, its employees, or service providers to provide goods and services to a resident that are necessary to avoid physical har, pain, mental anguish, or emotional distress.
What is a nurse aide (NA)?
The person who provides personal care for residents. This person is under the supervision of a licensed nurse.
What is the NA/R?
Nurse Aide on the Registry (Minnesota)
What is an ombudsman?
The person who handles complaints between a resident and the nursing home.
What is a patient?
A person that is receiving care from healthcare workers.
What is person-centered care?
Care that is respectful of a resident’s cultural, linguistic, and social needs and desires. Residents are encouraged to make their ow choices over their daily lives.
What is a resident?
Person, often elderly, living in a long-term care facility.
What is a resident representative?
A person chosen by the resident to act on their behalf. The person supports the resident in decision-making. The person accesses medical, social, or other personal information, receives notifications, and manages finances.
What is teamwork?
Working and helping each other to reach a shared goal.
What are values?
Beliefs that guide behavior and motivate how people act.
