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Chapter 3 & 10

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Definition
Edema   swelling in body tissues caused by excess fluid  
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Incident   an accicentm problem, or unexpected event  
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Medical chart   written legal reord of all medical care a patient, resident, or client recieves  
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Objective information   factual information collected using the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch (signs)  
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Orientation   a persons awareness of a person, place, and time  
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Prioritize   to place things in order of importance  
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Rounds   physical movement of staff from room to room to discuss each resident and his/her care plan  
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Subjective information   information collected from residents, their family members and friends, information may not be true but is what is reported also called symptoms  
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Verbal communication   communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds  
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Vital signs   measurements--temperature, pulse,respirations, blood pressure, pain level--that monitor the functioning of the vital organs of the body  
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Body language   all of the conscious or unconscious messages your body sends as you communicate, such as facial expressions, shruggging your shoulders, and wringing your hands  
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Charting   the act of noting care and observations;documenting  
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Culture   a set of learned beliefs, values, traditions, and behaviors, shared by a social, ethnic, or age group  
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Code   in health care, an emergency, an emergent medical situation in which specially trained responders provide resusitate measures to a person  
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Barrier   a block or an obstacle  
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Closed Bed   bed completely made with the bedspread and blankets in place  
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Draw sheet   an extra sheet placed on top of the bottom sheet; used for moving residents  
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Incontinence   the inability to control the bladder or bowels, which leads to an involuntary loss of urine or feces  
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Occupied bed   a bed made while the person is in the bed  
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Open bed   bed made with the linen folded down to the foot of the bed  
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Surgical bed   bed made so that a person can easilymove onto it from a stretcher  
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Unoccupied bed   a bed made while no person is in the bed  
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Depressant   a substance that causes calmness and drowsiness  
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Stimulant   a drug that increases or quickens actions of the body  
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