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Fundamentals Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Client Unit | The area where most client care is provided. This includes the bed, bathroom, table, etc. |
| Nursing unit | The area containing several client units and a centralized desk or office |
| Commode | Either the toilet in the restroom or the portable toilet that the client can use without going into the restroom area |
| Morgue | Under a pathologists (disease specialist) and is the place where the dead bodies are placed until they are picked up by the funeral home or the family. |
| bedside table | Usualy a small dresser like table that the client can use to store their belongings |
| overbed table | The table that fits over the bed and at the very least can be used as the dinner table in the bed. |
| intercom | A system that allows clients in their rooms to communicate directly with healthcare providers at the nursing station |
| laboratory | where studies and experiments on animals ae conducted to understand cure, or prevent human disease |
| Radiology | Performs diagnostic xray studies to aid healthcare providers in determining the exact location and nature of disorders |
| Physical Therapy | Directs its efforts toward preventing physical disability |
| Speech Therapy | Teaches the client how to speak or swallow, usually after a surgery or some major problem |
| occupational Therapy | Provides training for a job or evaluates the ability to care for themselves |
| Social Services | Provides counseling and assistance to clients and families in matters of finance, home care, discharge planning and living arrangements |
| Case management | Provides service coordination, health assesment, education and discharge planning for clients who are at high risk for readmission |
| Pharmacy | Where you go to get your clients medicines |
| Housekeeping | Provides cleaning services to the client units and common areas of the facility |
| Dietary | Prepares all meals for clients in accordance with instructions given by healthcare providers |
| Maintenance | Responsible to keep up the grounds and the equipment in the facility |
| Medical Records | Keeps medical records for al clients who have ever been in the facility |
| information technology | The people that keep up the computers and arious electronic devices |
| Hazardous Material "RED" | Fire |
| Hazardous Material "BLUE" | Health (death or injury) |
| Hazardous Material "YELLOW" | Reactive |
| Hazardous Material "WHITE" | Radioactive or reactive with water |
| What does the Acronyn "RACE" stand for? | R-Rescue; A-Alarm/Alert; C-Confine; E-Extinguish |
| What does RACE pertain to? | What to do in case of a fire |
| What does the acronym "PASS" stand for? | P-Pull the Pin; A-Aim at the base of the fire; S-Squeeze the handles together; S-Sweep across the base of the fire back and forth |
| Aerobe | Microorganism that requires oxygen for growth |
| Anaerobe | microorganism that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen |
| bacteria | Microorganisms; some of which are disease-causing; common forms are staphylocci, streptocci |
| Pathogen | A disease producing agent or organism |
| Communicable | A disease that can be transmitted from one person to another |
| reservoir | Any place where a microorganism can multiply or survive before moving to a place where it can multiply |
| contagious | Able to be transmitted from one person to another |
| spore | Protective capsule formed by some microorganisms to safeguard themselves |
| sterile | free of microorganisms, aseptic; free of all microbes |
| microbe | |
| microorganisms | minute living cells not visible to the human eye but found most everywhere in the environment |
| vector | Carrier, especially of a disease organism |
| nosocomial | Originating in a healthcare facility |
| Virus | Protein covered sac containing genetic or other organic materials; which enters a living organism and uses the host cell for viral reproduction to cause an illness or disease |
| opportunistic | Causing disease under certain circumstances |
| virulent | Ability of a microorganism to cause disease; strength; potency |
| medical asepsis | Practice of reducing the number of microorganisms or preventing and reducing transmission of microorganisms from one person(source) to another. |
| invasive | term used to describe surgery and some diagnostic tests that involve an incision or puncture through the skin, insertion of an instrument, or injection of a forein substance into the body |
| Disinfection | Cleaning process that destroys MOST pathogens but not necessarily their spores; "Process of destroying pathogens" |
| Sterilization | Process that destroys ALL microorganisms and spores; "Process of destroying all microbes" |
| Transmission Based Precautions | Precautions designed for clients with spefic infections or diagnosis |
| colonization | Microorganisms present in a person, who shows no signs or symptoms of illness |
| Surgical Aespsis | Destruction of all pathogens, sterile technique |
| infection | The invasion and multiplication of infective agents and body tissues with a resultant reactive(illness or injury) to their presence and/or their toxins |
| Contamination | To make unsterile or unclean; Process of becoming unclean |
| Clean Tecnique | Free of disease producing microbes |
| Biohazard "RED" | Blood and bodily fluids |
| Biohazard "CLEAR" | regular garbage |
| Biohazard "BLUE" | All linens |
| Biohazard "SHARPS" | Puncture proof containers |
| Biohazard "LAUNDRY" | ALWAYS contaminated |
| Febrile | Running a fever |
| Temporal | Forehead |
| Oral | By mouth |
| rectal | in the rectum |
| Tympanic | in the ear |
| axillary | Under the arm |
| Hyperthermia | High temperature |
| Hypothermia | Low Temperature |
| Bradycardia | Heart Rate Too Low |
| Palpation | Touching to take heart rate |
| Doppler | Very sensitive microphone |
| Dyspnea | Respiration Rate is bad |
| Bradypnea | Respiration rate is too low |
| Tachycardia | Heartrate too low |
| Auscultation | Listening to get a heartrate |
| Pulse | The waves of your heartbeat through your artery |
| Tachypnea | Respiration rate too high |
| Orthopnea | Must be propped up to breath |
| Kussmauls respirations | respiration abnormal due to chemical imbalance |
| Cheyne-Stokes respiiration | Client is in imminent danger of dying |
| Carotid | In the neck |
| Radial | In your arm |
| femoral | in your thigh |
| Dorsalis Pedis | The top of your foot |
| Apical | In your chest |
| Brachial | Beside the elbow |
| Popliteal | Behind the knee |
| Posterior Tibial | Behind the ankle bone |
| Hypertension | High blood pressure |
| Hypotension | Low blood pressure |
| systole | contraction of the heart |
| diastole | resting pressure |
| pulse pressure | Difference of systolic pressure minus diastolic pressure |
| sphygomanometer | clock looking peace on the stethoscope |
| karotkoff's sounds | Sounds heard when measuring blood pressure with a stethoscope |
| Orthostatic hypotension | Drop in blood pressure upon standing, often causing dizziness |
| systolic pressure | pressure needed to pump blood out of the heart |
| Body mechanics | Use of the safest and most efficient methods of moving and lifting |
| Logroll turn | A method of turning a client that keeps body straight in alignment |
| Range of Motion | (ROM) Ability to move various joints and structures of the body |
| Center of gravity | Center of ones weight |
| base of support | Balance or stability provided by the feet and their positioning |
| Line of gravity | Direction of gravitational pull |
| Flexion | Decreasing the angle between two bones or bending a part on itself, ex: Bending the elbow |
| Extension | Increasing the angle between two bones, as in straightening the arm |
| Hyperextension | Increasing the angle of an extremity beyond normal, as in bending the head back to look at the ceiling |
| dorsiflexion | Bending body part toward the dorsum, backwards, as in moving the foot so the toes are pulled toward the knee and thus facing backwards |
| plantar flexion | Bending the foot so that the toes are pointing downward |
| Abduction | Moving a body part away from the midline of the body (taking away from the body) |
| Adduction | Moving a body part toward the midline of the body (adding to the body) |
| Contracture | Abnormal shortening of muscles with resultant deformity |
| Passive ROM | Range of motion exercise with which the client may need physical assistance |
| Active ROM | Exercises in which the client is able to move without assistance |
| Transfer Belt | Sturdy webbed belt with buckle that easily secures around clients waist |
| Continuous Passive Motion | Mechanical device provides continuous motion to a specific joint |
| Horizontal Recumbent | (Supine) Lying on back |
| Dorsal Recumbant | Lying on the back with the knees flexed |
| Prone | Lying on the abdomen |
| Sims | lying on the left side with the right knee flexed (for administering enemas, suppositories, giving rectal exam, or colonoscopy) |
| Fowlers | Lying on the back with the head elevated. (high or semi; promotes breathing and facilitates drainage from abdominal wounds or pelvic infections) |
| Semi-Fowlers | head upright at 45 degree angle |
| High-fowlers | head upright 90 degree angle |
| knee-chest | Lying on the knees with the chest resting on the bed |
| Dorsal lithotomy | Lying on the back with the feet in stirrups (pelvic exam) |
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