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CNA Chapter 1
Nursing Assistant in long term care
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accountable | Answerable for one’s actions |
| Activities of daily living | Personal care tasks such as bathing, caring for skin, fingernails, and hair, eating, drinking, caring for the mouth and teeth, dressing, walking, transferring, eliminating and communicating |
| Acute Care | 24-hour skilled care given in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. it is for people who require short-term, immediate care for illnesses or injuries. |
| Activities Director | plans activities for residents to help them socialize and stay active |
| Adult Day Services | for people who need some help and supervision during certain hours, but who do no live in the facility where care is provided. |
| APRN | a registered nurse who has completed training at the postgraduate level ( master's or doctoral). can make diagnoses and prescribe treatment. |
| Assault | a threat to harm a person resulting in the person feeling fearful that they will be harmed. telling a resident that she will be slapped if she doesn't stop yelling. |
| Assisted living Facilities | are residences for people who need some help with daily tasks such as showering, meals, and dressing. they don't need 24-hour care it allows more independent living a homelike environment. |
| Care Team | Group of people with different kinds of education and experience who provides resident care |
| Chain of Command | line of authority and helps to make sure that residents get proper health care. protects employees and employers from liability. |
| Charge Nurse | A nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers |
| Chronic | Long term or long lasting |
| Cite | To document the problem through survey |
| Conscientious | Guided by a sense of right and wrong principled |
| Continuity of care | An ongoing coordination of a residents care over time during which the care team regularly exchanges information |
| Courteous | Polite kind and considerate |
| Delegation | Assignment of tasks to another person within there scope of practice |
| Dementia | Serious loss of mental abilities |
| Diagnosis | The identification of a disease or condition by its signs and symptoms and through test results |
| Empathy | Identifying with the feelings of others |
| Functional nursing | Method of nursing care that involves assigning specific tasks to each team member |
| Holistic care | Care that involves the whole person including physical, social, emotional, and spiritual |
| Home health care | care that takes place in a person's home. |
| Hospice care | holistic, compassionate care given to dying people and their families. |
| Intergenerational care | Caring for children and elderly in the same setting |
| Joint commission | an independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations |
| Length of stay | the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility. |
| Liability | The state of being legally responsible for something |
| LPN/LVN | A licensed nurse who provides skilled nursing care and gives treatments and medication |
| Long term care | A disease or condition that is long-term or long-lasting and requires management of symptoms. |
| Medicaid | medical assistance program for people who have low income, as well as for people with disabilities. |
| Medicare | federal health insurance program that was established in 1965 for people aged 65 or older. covers people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities. |
| Empathy | Identifying with the feelings of others |
| Functional nursing | Method of nursing care that involves assigning specific tasks to each team member |
| Holistic care | Care that involves the whole person including physical, social, emotional, and spiritual |
| Home health care | care that takes place in a person's home. |
| Hospice care | holistic, compassionate care given to dying people and their families. |
| Intergenerational care | Caring for children and elderly in the same setting |
| Joint commission | an independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations |
| Length of stay | the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility. |
| Liability | The state of being legally responsible for something |
| LPN/LVN | A licensed nurse who provides skilled nursing care and gives treatments and medication |
| Long term care | A disease or condition that is long-term or long-lasting and requires management of symptoms. |
| Medicaid | medical assistance program for people who have low income, as well as for people with disabilities. |
| Medicare | federal health insurance program that was established in 1965 for people aged 65 or older. covers people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities. |
| Nursing Assistant | performs assigned taks such as measuring vital signs, assist with personal care, such as bathing and helping with elimination needs. must have at least 75 hours of training and pass a competency evaluation. |
| Outpatient care | given to people who have had treatments, procedures, or surgeries and need short-term skilled care. |
| Person centered care | emphasizes the individuality of the person who needs care, and recognizes and develops the person's capabilities. revolves around the resident and promotes her individual preferences choices, dignity, and interests |
| Physical Therapist | evaluates a person and develops a treatment plan to increase movement, improve circulation, promote healing, reduce pain, prevent disability, and regain or maintain mobility. gives therapy in the form of heat, cold, massage. |
| Physician Assistant | licensed professional who diagnoses disease or disability and develops treatment plans, as well as prescribes medication. works under the supervision of a doctor and has received masters degrees + national licensure examination. |
| Physician or Doctor | licensed professional who diagnoses disease or fixability and prescribes treatment and medication. graduated four year medical school and specialized training programs. |
| Policy | course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs |
| Procedure | A method or way of doing something |
| Registered Nurse | A licensed nurse who is residence creates care plan, monitors progress, provide skilled nursing care, administer treatments and medication and supervises care given by nursing assistance and other members of the care team |
| Rehabilitation | care given by specialists and professionals, physical, occupational, and speech therapists help restore or improve function after an illness or injury. |
| Resident | A person living in a long-term care facility |
| Sandwich generation | People responsible for the care of both their children and aging relatives |
| Skilled care | Medically, necessary caregiving by skilled nurse therapist |
| Subacute care | Caregiving in hospitals are in long-term care facilities for people who care less than an acute illness, but higher level of care for chronic illness |
| Team leader | Nurse in charge of a group of residence for one shift of duty |
| Team Nursing | Method of care in which a nurse acts as a leader of a group of people giving care |
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