CNA Terms for Hibbing Community College
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| Acute | Sudden, short term
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| Alzheimer's Disease | Dementia due to changes in the brain
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| Ambulatory | Able to walk
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| Aphasia | Inability to express oneself properly through speech and/or loss of verbal comprehension.
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| Expressive | Aphasia Can't speak
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| Receptive aphasia | Can't understand what is being said.
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| Artery | Large blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart to tissues
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| Arthritis | Inflammation of the joints and tissues
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| Coma | An abnormal deep stupor - sleep like- cannot be awakened
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| Comatose | Used to describe the condition of a patient In a coma. Sometimes the word unconscious is used.
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| Cognition | The ability to think, reason, make and remember decisions
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| Constipation | Infrequent and difficult bowel evacuation
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| Convulsion | Violent , strong, involuntary muscular contractions
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| C.V.A./Stroke | Cerebral Vascular Accident
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| Cyanosis | Slightly bluish, grayish discoloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen
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| Decubitus Ulcer | Ulcerated, worn away area on the skin. Also called Pressure Sore.
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| Defecate | Bowel movement
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| Deformity | Distortion/dis figuration in a certain area
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| Degeneration | Deterioration, breakdown
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| Delusion | False fixed belief (fear of being poisoned or others hurting them)
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| Dementia | Progressive deterioration of mental function
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| Diabetes | Condition in which the body is unable to utilize the glucose taken in by a normal diet. There is an imbalance between insulin produced by the body and sugar taken in
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| Diarrhea | Frequent, watery bowel evacuation
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| Dysphagia | Difficulty swallowing
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| Edema | Condition in which the body tissues contain an excess amount of fluid
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| Ethics | Standards of behavior: right or wrong
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| Ethnicity | Special customs, language, national origin and/or heritage
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| Exploitation | Illegal use of vulnerable adults property, or personal items
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| Extremities | Arms and/or legs
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| Geriatrics | Study of the elderly/aging
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| Hemiplegia | Paralysis of one side of the body
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| Hemorrhage | Abnormal loss or discharge of blood
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| Hypertension | High blood pressure
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| Hypotension | Low blood pressure
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| Impaction | Hard stool in bowel, unable to pass
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| Involuntary | Not able to control
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| Incontinence | Inability to control urine or stool.
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| Medicare | The federal health insurance program for the aged and disabled, specified under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Medicare is federally funded and administered.
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| Medicaid | Known in Minnesota as ""Medical Assistance"" or MA. The program is intended for furnace necessary medical care for low income persons. The MA program is funded by federal and state dollars, and is administered by the State and counties."
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| Mental | Relates to the mind
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| Myocardial infarction | Heart attack
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| Neglect | Failure to provide goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness.
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| Paraplegia | Paralysis of the lower half of the body-waist down
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| Pathogen | Disease causing microorganism:germ
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| Physical | Relates to the body
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| Prosthesis | Artificial or man made part or organ (dentures, false eyes)
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| Pressure sore | Ulcerated or worn away area on the skin. Also known as decubitus ulcer
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| Pulse | Rhythmical throbbing of artery showing how fast the heart is beating.
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| Reality orientation | Assisting residents to be aware of time, place and person
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| Regress | Go back, as to childlike behavior
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| Respiration | The act of breathing. One inspiration = one respiration
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| Sedated | Calming effects of a drug.
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| Shearing | Force of skin over a bone when the bone moves but the skin stays at the point of contact. (as by pulling linens out from under skin)
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| Shock | Depression of body functions, principally the circulatory and respiratory systems
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| Sign | Evidence of something abnormal in the body, which is observed by the nursing team through seeing, listening, touching or smelling
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| Standard Precautions | Practices that reduce the risk of disease transmission like wearing gloves, or washing hands.
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| Temperature | Measurement of degree of heat
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| Trunk | Area from neck to legs
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| Vein | small blood vessel carrying blood to the heart to be reoxygenated
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| Void | Urination
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| Voluntary | Controllable
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