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Chapter 3 & 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Edema | swelling in body tissues caused by excess fluid |
| Incident | an accicentm problem, or unexpected event |
| Medical chart | written legal reord of all medical care a patient, resident, or client recieves |
| Objective information | factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch (signs) |
| Orientation | a persons awareness of a person, place, and time |
| Prioritize | to place things in order of importance |
| Rounds | physical movement of staff from room to room to discuss each resident and his/her care plan |
| Subjective information | information collected from residents, their family members and friends, information may not be true but is what is reported also called symptoms |
| Verbal communication | communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds |
| Vital signs | measurements--temperature, pulse,respirations, blood pressure, pain level--that monitor the functioning of the vital organs of the body |
| Body language | all of the conscious or unconscious messages your body sends as you communicate, such as facial expressions, shruggging your shoulders, and wringing your hands |
| Charting | the act of noting care and observations;documenting |
| Culture | a set of learned beliefs, values, traditions, and behaviors, shared by a social, ethnic, or age group |
| Code | in health care, an emergency, an emergent medical situation in which specially trained responders provide resusitate measures to a person |
| Barrier | a block or an obstacle |
| Closed Bed | bed completely made with the bedspread and blankets in place |
| Draw sheet | an extra sheet placed on top of the bottom sheet; used for moving residents |
| Incontinence | the inability to control the bladder or bowels, which leads to an involuntary loss of urine or feces |
| Occupied bed | a bed made while the person is in the bed |
| Open bed | bed made with the linen folded down to the foot of the bed |
| Surgical bed | bed made so that a person can easilymove onto it from a stretcher |
| Unoccupied bed | a bed made while no person is in the bed |
| Depressant | a substance that causes calmness and drowsiness |
| Stimulant | a drug that increases or quickens actions of the body |
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