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53 Cards in this Set
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Acute
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Illness that come on suddenly; requires intensive, immediate treatment.
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Cyanosis
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Blue color to the lips due to decrease amounts of oxygen in the blood.
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Degeneration
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Deterioration of the tissues of the joints
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Dysphagia
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Difficulty in swallowing
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Dysphasia
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Difficulty in speaking
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Extremities
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Arms or legs
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Observative observation
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A factual or measurable event such as a pulse rate or body sign
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Subjective observation
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Statement made by the resident such as "I have a headache"
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Geriatrics
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Relating to age or the elderly
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Ethics
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Standards of behaviour developed by a person's concepts of the right and wrong
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Involuntary
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Against will
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Neglects
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Failure to provide goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm or mental anguish
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Defecate
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Bowel movement that expels feces
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Involuntary
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Against will
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Dementia
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Progressive mental deterioration due to organic brain disease
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Ethnicity
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Special grouping within a race
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Microorganism
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Tiny living bodies that can't be seen with the naked eyes but can be seen with microscope
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Ethnicity
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Special grouping within a race
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Microorganism
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Tiny living bodies that can't be seen with the naked eyes but can be seen with microscope
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Incontinence
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Inability to control or retain urine or stool
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Pathogen
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Disease causing microorganism
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Ambulatory
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The act of walking
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Incontinence
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Inability to control or retain urine or stool
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Validation Therapy
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Techniques used to help individual feel good about themselves
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Ambulatory
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The act of walking
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Validation Therapy
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Techniques used to help individual feel good about themselves
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Standard Precaution
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Practices used in health care fascilities to prevent the spread of infection via blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, mucous membranes, and nonintact skin
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Exploitation
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Illegal use of valuable adult's property or personal items
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Cognition
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Intellectual process that includes thought, awareness and the ability to understand
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Void
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To release urine from the bladder
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Shearing
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Force on skin over bone when the skin remains at the point of contact while the bone moves; causes damage to skin
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Tachycardia
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Pulse rate over 100 beats per minute
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Bradycardia
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Pulse rate under 100 beats per minute
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Hypertension
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High blood pressure higher than 140/90
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CVA
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Cerebral Vascular Accident
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Hypotention
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Low blood pressure lower than 90/60
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Hypoxia
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lack of oxygen
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Abduction
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Movement away from the body
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Ambulate
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To walk
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Atrophy
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Shrinking or wasting away of tissues
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Adduction
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Movement towards the body
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Extension
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Movement by which the 2 ends of any jointed parts are drawn away from each other
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Flexion
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Decreasing the angle between 2 bones
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Restorative care
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Care design to maintain or improve a patient's function and assist the patient to return to self care
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Aspiration
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Inhaling liquids into lungs
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Graduate
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Container marked for millimeters used to measure liquids
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Flatus
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Gas or air in the stomach or intestines expelled through the anus
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Fecal impaction
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Most serious form of constipation. Stool is retained in rectum where water is absorbed and becomes dry
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Emesis
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Vomit
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Hemiplegia
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Paralysis on one side of the body
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Quadriplegia
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Paralysisof the arms, legs and trunk below the level of spinal cord injury
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Supine position
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Lying with the face upwards
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External rotation
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To rotate the joints away or out ward
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