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CNA ch 2
Foundations of resident care
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process of exchanging information with others | Communication |
| The use of words or sounds, spoken or written | Verbal communication |
| Communication without using words | Non-verbal communication |
| Info that is based on what you see, hear, touch, or smell. It can be measured | Objective information |
| Info you cannot or did not observe. It is based on what is reported to you | Subjective information |
| Inability to control the bladder or bowels | Incontinence |
| Phrases that are used over and over again and do not really mean anything "it will be fine" | Cliches |
| Unconcious behaviors used to release tension or cope with stress | Defense mechanisms |
| Defense mechanism that completely rejecting the thought or feeling | Denial |
| Defense mechanism that sees feelings in others that are really one's own | Projection |
| Defense mechanism that transfers a strong negative feelings to a safer place | Displacement |
| Defense mechanism that makes excuses to justify a situation | Rationalization |
| Defense mechanism that blocks painful thoughts or feelings from the mind | Repression |
| Defense mechanism that causes one to go back to an old, usually immature behavior | Regression |
| A system of learned behaviors, practiced by a group of people, that are considered to be the tradition of that people and are passed on from one generation to the next | Culture |
| A loss of function or ability; it can be partial or complete loss | Impairment |
| Violent or hostile behavior | Combative behavior |
| The way a person holds and positions his body | posture |
| The foundation that supports as object | Base of support |
| The point in the body where the most weight is concentrated | Center of gravity |
| A broken bone | Fracture |
| Confusion about person, place, or time | Disorientation |
| Burns caused by hot liquids | Scalds |
| An injury that rubs off the surface of the skin | abrasions |
| Fed Government agency that makes rules to protect workers from hazards on the job | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) |
| Being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts | Conscious |
| Emergency care given immediately to an injured person | First Aid |
| When something is blocking the tube through which air enters the lungs | Obstructed airway |
| A method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking, by pushing on the abdomen in an upward motions | abdominal thrusts |
| Occurs when organs and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply. It is a life treatening situation. | Shock |
| Difficulty breathing | Dyspnea |
| Also called hypoglycemia, can result from either too much insulin or too little food | Insulin reaction |
| Also called hyperglycemia or diabetic coma which is caused by too little insulin. | Diabetic Ketoacidosis |
| Another word for stroke, when the blood supply to the brain is cut off suddenly by a clot or a ruptured blood vessel | Cerebralvascular accident (CVA) |
| A warning sign of a CVA. A temporary lack of oxygen in the brain. | Transient ischemic attack (TIA) |
| Vomiting or the act of ejecting stomach contents through the mouth. | Emesis |
| Term for measures practiced in healthcare facilities to prevent and control the spread of disease | Infection control |
| A living thing that is so small that it can only be seen through a microscope | Microorganism |
| Microorganism that causes disease | pathogen |
| An infection in the blood stream that spreads throughout the body | Systemic infection |
| Confined infection to a specific location in the body and has local symptoms, near the site of infection | Localized infection |
| Infections that patients acquire within the healthcare settings that result from treatment for other conditions | Nosocomial infections |
| The process of removing pathogens, or the state of being free of pathogens and refers to being "clean" | Medical asepsis |
| Means objects are not contaminated with pathogens | clean |
| Means that objects are contaminated with pathogens | dirty |
| Is the state of being free of all microorganisms, not just pathogens (sterile technique) | Surgical asepsis |
| A way of describing how disease is transmitted from one living being to another | Chain of infection |
| A pathogen or microorganism that causes disease | Causative agent |
| Where a pathogen lives and grows, like a person, animal, plant, soil, or substance | Reservoir |
| Any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to leave | Portal of exit |
| Describes how the pathogen travels from one person to another | Mode of transmission |
| Transmission of pathogens that happens by touching the infected person's secretions | Direct contact |
| Transmission of pathogens that happens by touching something that is contaminated by the infected person | Indirect contact |
| Any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to enter | Portal of entry |
| Membranes that line body cavities, such as athe mouth, nose,eyes, rectum, and genitals | Mucous Membranes |
| An uninfected person who could get sick | Susceptible host |
| To treat all blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (like abrasians, pimples, or open sores) and mucous membranes as if they were infected. | Standard Precautions |
| Handwashing with either plain or antiseptic soap and water and using alcolhol-based hand rubs | Hand hygiene |
| Washing hands with water and soap or other detergents that contain an antiseptic agent | Hand antisepsis |
| Care of the genitals and anal area | Perineal care |
| Cleaning measures that destroys ALL microorganisms | Sterilization |
| Process that kills pathogens, but not all microorganisms; reduces the organism count to a level that is not considered infectious | Disinfections |
| Discared or thrown away after one use | Disposable |
| Precautions that are used when caring for persons who are infected or suspected of being infected with a disease | Transmission based precautions |
| Microorganisms found in human blood that can cause infection and disease in humans | Bloodborne pathogens |
| Inflammation of the liver caused by infection | Hepatitis |
| Airborne disease that infects the lungs causing coughing, trouble breathing, fever, weight loss, and fatigue.If left untreated one can die | Tuberculosis (TB) |
| A common type of bacteria that can become so powerful that it becomes resistant to methicillin, which is a powerful anibiotic | Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) |
| A spore-forming bacteria that is a part of the normal intestinal flora, but that becomes flourished and releases a toxin that causes frequent, foul-smelling watery stools | Clostridium difficile (C-diff) |
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