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provides housing, support, services, and health care to persons needing help with daily activities
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assisted living facility
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provides a room, meals, laundry, and supervision; residential care facility
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board and care home
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staff members who work together to privde health care; called the interdisciplinary health care team in nursing centers
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health team
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a perosn who gives basic nursing care under the supervision of al icensed nurse
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nursing assistant
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provides health care servces to persons who need regular or continuous care; nursing home or nursing facility
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nursing center
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nursing center or nursing home
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nursing facility
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RN's
LPN's LVN's and nursign assistants |
nursing team
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a law the requires nursing centers to provide care in a manner and setting that maintains or improves a person's quiality of life, health, and safety
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omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1987 (OBRA)
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a nurse who has completed a 2, 3, or 4 year nursing program and has passed a licensing test
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registered nurse -RN
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a board and care home
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residential care facility
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a nursing centere that provides complex care for persons with severe health problems
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skilled nursing facility -SNF
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complex medical care or rehabilitation for persons who no longer need hospital care
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subacute care
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persons in long-term care centers are called
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residents
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what kind of illness begins suddenly and the perosn will likely recover
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acute illness
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what kind of illness is on going
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chronic illness
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the international mistreatment of harm of another person
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abuse
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intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without the person's consent
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assault
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touching a erson's body without his or her consent
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battery
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laws dealing with relationships between people
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civil law
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an act that violates a criminal law
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crime
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laws concerned with offenses against the public and against society
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criminal law
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injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person
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defamation
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to authorize anoher person to perform a task
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delegate
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unlawful restraint of restirction of a person's feedom of movement
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false imprisonment
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saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person
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fraud
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when a person's name, picture, or private affairs are exposed to the public without consent
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invasion of privacy
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a list of responsibilities and functions the agency expects you to perform
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job description
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a rule of conduct made by a government body
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law
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making false statements in print, writing, or through pictures or drawings
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libel
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negligence by a professional person
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malpractice
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failure to provdie the person wit goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness
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neglect
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an unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a resonable and careful manner and caused harm to a person or property
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negligence
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making false statements orally
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slander
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a function, procedure, activity, or work that doe snot require an RN's professional knowledge or judgement
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task
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trusting others with personal and private information
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confidentiality
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to spread rumrs or talk about the private matters of others
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gossip
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to trouble, torment, offend, or worry a person by on'es behavior or comments
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harassment
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the most important thing at the time
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priority
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staff members work together as a groupl each perosn does his or her part to provide safe and efective care; staff members help each other as needed
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teamwork
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behavior in the workplace
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work ethics
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