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Ch1 Fund Vocab
Chapter 1 Words to Know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active listening | demonstrating full attention to what is being said; hearing both the content being communicated and the unspoken message. |
| Activities of daily living (ADLs) | acts that people normally do every day. |
| Art | ability to perform an act skillfully. |
| Assessment skills | acts that involve collecting data. |
| Capitation | strategy for controlling health care costs by paying a fixed amount per member. |
| Caring skills | nursing interventions that restore or maintain a person's health. |
| Clinical pathways | standardized multidisciplinary plans for a specific diagnosis or procedure that identify specific aspects of care to be performed during a designated length of stay. |
| Comforting skills | interventions that provide stability and security during a health crisis. |
| Counseling skills | interventions that include communicating with clients, actively listening to the exchange of information, offering pertinent health teaching, and providing emotional support. |
| Cross-trained | ability to assume a non-nursing job position, depending on the census or levels of client acuity on any given day. |
| Discharge planning | predetermining a client's post-discharge needs and coordinating the use of appropriate community resources to provide a continuum of care . |
| Empathy | intuitive awareness of what the client is experiencing. |
| Evidence-based practice | scientific knowledge used to predict nursing interventions most likely to produce a desired outcome. |
| Managed care practices | cost-containment strategies used to plan and coordinate a client's care to avoid delays, unnecessary services or overuse of expensive resources. |
| Multicultural diversity | unique characteristics of ethnic groups. |
| Nursing skills | activities unique to the practice of nursing. |
| Nursing theory | proposal of what is involved in the process of nursing. |
| Quality assurance | process of promoting care that reflects established agency standards. |
| Science | body of knowledge unique to a particular subject. |
| Sympathy | feeling as emotionally distraught as the client. |
| Theory | opinion, belief, or view that explains a process. |
| Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) | performs tasks and duties assigned by RNs and/or LPN/LVNs for clients. |