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29 Cards in this Set
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Home Health Agencies |
Business that provides health care an personal service at home |
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Providers |
People or organization that provide health care |
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Home Health Aide (HHA) |
People who provide care at a client's home performing assigned tasks. HHA assists with ADLs |
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ADLs |
Activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, cooking, oral care) |
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Payers |
People or organizations that provide health care HMO & PPO (managed care) |
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Health Care Settings |
Places where people go to receive health care hospital, acute & long term care |
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Medicaid |
For people who are low income and need medical assistance (access) 19% of all home care |
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Diagnosis |
Doctors determination of illness(breast cancer) by primary or specialist |
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Diagnosis related group DRG |
Specify treatment cost that medicaid or medicare will pay for diagnosis flat fee for illness treatment |
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Scope Of Practice SOP |
The task as HHA is allowed to do and how to do them correctly |
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Outside Scope Of Practice |
Tasks a HHA should not perform under for any reason (tube placement, wound care(deep,open wound care) sterile technique nurses use when doing invasive tasks |
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Range Of Motion ROM |
Exercise that put a joint through full motion depending on ability |
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Care Plan |
Used to help achieve the goals of care must be followed carefully |
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Standard Precautions |
Methods used to prevent infection(gloves,handwashing) |
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Medicare |
For people 65 an older, permanent kidney damaged, certain disabilities 43 million people 37%of all home care |
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Vital Signs VS |
Temperature, pulse, breath, blood pressure and pain level monitor functions of vital organs |
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In-service |
12 hour of training every year (hha cannot work w/o In-service training) |
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA |
Federal government agency makes rules to protect HHA from hazards on job (TB, bloodborne illness, standard precautions) |
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Liability |
Someone that can be held responsible for harming a client (a fall) not following care plan |
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Policy |
Action that should be taken everytime a situation occurs care plan must be followed everytime you visit a client |
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Procedure |
Way of doing something everytime(reporting info about your client) |
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Professional |
Having to do with work on a job HHA |
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Professionalism |
How you behave when you are on your job dress code ,being on time |
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Personal |
Your life outside your job family, home life |
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Hygiene |
Cleaning ones body ,washing body with soap & water ,brushing ones teeth, washing hands |
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Ethics |
Knowledge of right and wrong always try to do what's right |
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Laws |
Help people live together with water and safety |
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Clients Rights |
How clients must be treated, clients bill of rights |
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HIPAA |
Government rules to protect health information health insurance portability accountability act |