Chapter 1. The Nursing In Long Term Care

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Answers for one's actions takes....

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Accountable

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Personal daily Care tasks, including bathing, skin, nails, and hair care, walking, eating, and drinking, mouth Care, dressing transferring and toileting

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Activity of daily living (ADLs)

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The group of people with different kinds of education and experience to provide resident care

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Care team

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The order of authority within a facility

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Chain of command

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A nurse is responsible for a a team of healthcare workers

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Charge nurse or a nurse in charge

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The term for an illness or condition that is long term or long lasting

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Chronic

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A long term care facility to find a problem through a survey

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Cite

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Guided by a sense of right and wrong; principal

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Conscientious

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Coordination of care for a resident over time, during which the care team is always exchanging information about the resident and working towards shared goals

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Continuity of Care

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To be polite kind and considerate

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Courteous

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Transferring authority to a person for a specific task

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Delegation

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The loss of mental abilities such as thinking remembering reasoning and communicating

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Dementia

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The identification of a disease by its signs and symptoms and from the result of a different test

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Diagnosis

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Indentifying with an understanding another person's feelings

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Empathetic

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A way of classifying or categorizing people at the first meeting

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First impression

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A method of Care assigning specific task to each team member

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Functional nursing

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Care that involves the whole person; this includes his or her physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs.

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Holistic

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Care that takes place in a person's home

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Home health care

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Mixing children and elderly in the same care setting

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Internal generational care

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A not-for-profit organisation that evaluates and accredits different types of healthcare facilities

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Joint Commission

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The number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility

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Length of stay

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A legal term that means a person can be held responsible for harming someone else

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Liability

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They administer medicines give treatments and may supervise daily care of residents

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LPN

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24 hour care provided for people with ongoing conditions are generally unable to manage their ADLs

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Long term care

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Care usually given for less than 24 hours to people who have had treatment, procedures, or surgeries

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Out patient care

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A course of action to be followed

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Policy

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A method of Care in which the registered nurse gives much of the daily care to residents

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Primary nursing

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A method or way of doing something

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Procedure

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the act behaving properly for a certain job

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Professionalism

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A licensed nurse who has completed two to four years of education. assist residents create the care plan, monitor progress, provide skilled nursing care, give treatments, and supervise the care given by nursing assistants and other members of the care team

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RN

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A program of care given by a specialist or a team of specialists to restore or improve function after an illness or injury

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rehabilitation

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Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist

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Skilled care

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Care for an illness or condition given to people who need less care than for an acute (sudden onset, short term) illness or injury but more than for a chronic (long-term) illness.

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Subacute Care

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24 hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries generally given in hospital and ambulatory surgical centers

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Acute care

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What are some things that are listed on a medical charts

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AdMission forms

residence history and results of physical examination; care plan doctor's orders; doctors progress notes; nursing assessments; nurses notes; notes from the physical therapist; occupational therapist and other specialist; flow sheets; graphic record; intake and out put record; consent forms; lab and test results; surgery reports; advance directive