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CNA- Chapter 1 & 2
Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acute Illness | A sudden illness from which the person is expected to recover |
| Assisted Living Residence (ALR) | Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily activities |
| Board and Care Home | Provides a room, meals, laundry, and supervision |
| Chronic Illness | An on-going illness that is slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment |
| Health Team | The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care |
| Hospice | An agency or program for persons who are dying |
| Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | A nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test; aka LVN |
| Nursing Assistant | A person who has passed a nursing assistant training and competency evalutation program; performs delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse |
| Nursing Center | A long-term care center that provides health care services to persons who need regular or continuous care; aka nursing facility or nursing home |
| Nursing Team | Those who provide nursing care- RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and nursing assistants |
| Ombudsman | Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person |
| Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA) | A federal law requiring that nursing centers provide care in a manner and in a setting that maintains or improves each person's quality of life, health, and safety |
| Registered Nurse (RN) | A nurse who has completed a 2,3, or 4-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test |
| Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) | A long-term care center that provides complex care for severe health problems |
| Subacute Care | Complex medical care or rehabilitation when hospital care is no longer needed |
| Terminal Illness | An illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover |
| Abuse | The intentional mistreatment or harm of another person |
| Assault | Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without the person's consent |
| Battery | Touching a person's body without his or her consent |
| Boundary Crossing | A brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone |
| Boundary Sign | An act, behavior, or thought that warns of a boundary crossing or boundary violation |
| Boundary Violation | An act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's needs |
| Civil Law | Laws dealing with relationships between people |
| Crime | An act that violates a criminal law |
| Criminal Law | Laws concerned with offenses against the public and society in general |
| Defamation | Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person |
| Delegate | To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation |
| Elder Abuse | Any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person to an older adult |
| Ethics | Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct |
| False Imprisonment | Unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement |
| Fraud | Saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person |
| Invasion of Privacy | Violating a person's right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs exposed or made public without giving consent |
| Job Description | A document that describes what the agency expects you to do |
| Law | A rule of conduct made by a government body |
| Libel | Making false statements in print, writing or through pictures or drawings |
| Malpractice | Negligence by a professional person |
| Neglect | Failure to provide the person with the goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness |
| Negligence | An unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and a person or the person's property was harmed |
| Nursing Task | Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does not require an RNs professional knowledge or judgement |
| Professional Boundary | That which separates helpful behaviors from those that are not helpful |
| Professional Sexual Misconduct | An act, behavior, or comment that is sexual in nature |
| Protected Health Information | Identifying information about the person's health care that is maintained or sent in any form (paper, electronic, oral) |
| Self-neglect | A person's behaviors that threaten his or her health and safety |
| Slander | Making false statements orally |
| Vulnerable Adult | A person 18 years old or older who has a disability or condition that makes him or her at risk to be wounded, attacked, or damaged |
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