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last CNA Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The passage of dry hard stool. | Constipation |
| A Rapid heart rate, over 100 beats per min | Tachycardia |
| Period or heart muscle relaxation. | Diastole |
| The pulse used when taking a blood pressure | Brachial |
| Living Will | Document stating a person's wishes about health care matters when they are unable to make their own decisions any longer. |
| Rigor mortis | Stiffness or rigidity of skeletal muscles that occurs after death. |
| Gas or air passed through the anus | Flatus |
| Powerfull and imprtanta communication technigues used with a dying person | listening and touch |
| Nocturia | Frequent urinations at night |
| blood in the urine | hematuria |
| cereball palsy | Brain defext that results in abnormal body movements, pisture, and coordinations. |
| mental retardation | Low intellectual functioning |
| They most common mental health problem in older persons | Depression |
| Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome | Disease caused by HIV |
| Dehydration | Excessive loss of water from tissues |
| The amount of heat in the body;Balance between the amount of heat produced and amount lost by the body | Body temperature |
| Black, tarry stool | Melena |
| Hypertension | bs>140/90 mmHg |