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Terms

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Acute Illness   A sudden illness from which the person is expected to recover  
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Assisted Living Residence (ALR)   Provides housing, personal care, support services, health care, and social activities in a home-like setting to persons needing help with daily activities  
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Board and Care Home   Provides a room, meals, laundry, and supervision  
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Chronic Illness   An on-going illness that is slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; it can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment  
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Health Team   The many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care  
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Hospice   An agency or program for persons who are dying  
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Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)   A nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test; aka LVN  
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Nursing Assistant   A person who has passed a nursing assistant training and competency evalutation program; performs delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse  
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Nursing Center   A long-term care center that provides health care services to persons who need regular or continuous care; aka nursing facility or nursing home  
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Nursing Team   Those who provide nursing care- RNs, LPNs/LVNs, and nursing assistants  
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Ombudsman   Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person  
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)   A federal law requiring that nursing centers provide care in a manner and in a setting that maintains or improves each person's quality of life, health, and safety  
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Registered Nurse (RN)   A nurse who has completed a 2,3, or 4-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test  
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Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)   A long-term care center that provides complex care for severe health problems  
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Subacute Care   Complex medical care or rehabilitation when hospital care is no longer needed  
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Terminal Illness   An illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover  
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Abuse   The intentional mistreatment or harm of another person  
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Assault   Intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a person's body without the person's consent  
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Battery   Touching a person's body without his or her consent  
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Boundary Crossing   A brief act or behavior outside of the helpful zone  
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Boundary Sign   An act, behavior, or thought that warns of a boundary crossing or boundary violation  
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Boundary Violation   An act or behavior that meets your needs, not the person's needs  
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Civil Law   Laws dealing with relationships between people  
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Crime   An act that violates a criminal law  
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Criminal Law   Laws concerned with offenses against the public and society in general  
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Defamation   Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false statements to a third person  
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Delegate   To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation  
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Elder Abuse   Any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person to an older adult  
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Ethics   Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct  
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False Imprisonment   Unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement  
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Fraud   Saying or doing something to trick, fool, or deceive a person  
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Invasion of Privacy   Violating a person's right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affairs exposed or made public without giving consent  
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Job Description   A document that describes what the agency expects you to do  
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Law   A rule of conduct made by a government body  
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Libel   Making false statements in print, writing or through pictures or drawings  
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Malpractice   Negligence by a professional person  
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Neglect   Failure to provide the person with the goods or services needed to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness  
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Negligence   An unintentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and a person or the person's property was harmed  
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Nursing Task   Nursing care or a nursing function, procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does not require an RNs professional knowledge or judgement  
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Professional Boundary   That which separates helpful behaviors from those that are not helpful  
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Professional Sexual Misconduct   An act, behavior, or comment that is sexual in nature  
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Protected Health Information   Identifying information about the person's health care that is maintained or sent in any form (paper, electronic, oral)  
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Self-neglect   A person's behaviors that threaten his or her health and safety  
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Slander   Making false statements orally  
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Vulnerable Adult   A person 18 years old or older who has a disability or condition that makes him or her at risk to be wounded, attacked, or damaged  
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