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14 Cards in this Set
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Acute Illness
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A sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover
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Assisted living Residence
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Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activies in a home-like setting
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Case Management
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A nursing care pattern: a case manager (an RN) coordinates a person's care from admission through discharge and into the home setting
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Chronic Illness
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An ongoing ilness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; the illness can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment
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Functional Nursing
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A nursing care pattern focusing on tasks and jobs; each nursing team member has a certain taks and jobs to do
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Health Team
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The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus in the person's total care; interdisciplinary health care team
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Hospice
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A health care agency or program for persons who are dying
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Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
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A nurse who has completed a 1 year nursing program and has passed a licencing test; called licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in some states
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Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVP)
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Licensed practical nurse
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Nursing Assistant
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A person who has oassed a nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program; performs delegated nursing task under the supervision of a licenced nurse
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Nursing Team
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Those who provide nursing care - RNs, LPN/LVNs & nursing assistants
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Patient-focus Care
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A nursing care pattern; services are moved from departments to to the bedside
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Primary Nurse
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A nursing care pattern; an RN is responsible for the persons total care
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Registered Nurse
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A nurse who has completed a 2, 3 or 4 year nursing program & has passed the licensing test
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