Chapter 4
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| health care plan | written guidelines for providing care
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| individualized health care plan | plan of care tailored to reflect the inviduality of each resident
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| Minimum Data Set (MDS) | a written, standardized assessment of all residents living in a skilled nursing facility
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| Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) | in-depth focused assessments on specific aspects of care such as risk for falls or tube feeding
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| continuity | doing the same things in the same way
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| rounds, making | going to each resident to determine briefly whether they have any immediate needs
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| planning | devising a way of getting a job done
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| setting priorities | looking at things that need to be done and putting them in the roder of importance
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| implement | to carry out or accomplish a given plan
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| observation | recognizing and noticing a fact or occurrence
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| objective observation | facts observed and not distorted by personal feelings (ex: the dress is red)
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| subjective observations | individual judgments based on personal feelings(the dress is pretty)
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| Fahrenheit (F) | measurement of temperature in which 32 degrees is the freezing point and 212 degress is the boiling point for water
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| Celsius or centigrade (C) | measurement of temperature in which 1 degrees is the freezing point and 100 degrees is the boiling point
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| perpendicular | at a right angle
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| calibrated | marked with graduations, as on a thermometer or graduate
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| bulb (thermometer) | portion of the thermometer that is placed in direct contact with the resident's body
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| stem (thermometer) | long narrow portion of a thermometer, opposite from the bulb
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| pulse | the rhythmic expansioni and contraction of the arteries, which can be measured to show how fast the heart is beating
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| radial pulse | pulse felt at the inner aspect of the wrist (radial artery)
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| rate pulse | the number of pulse beats per minute
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| rhythm pulse | the regularity of the pulse beats
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| force fo the beat pulse | strength or power described as weak or bounding
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| apical pulse | heartbeat measured at the apex of the heart
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| stethoscope | instrument that picks up sound when placed against part of the body
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| respiration | process of inhaling and exhaling
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| labored respirations | difficult breathing that may include gugling, rattling, or wheezing sounds
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| stertorous respirations | abnormal noises like snoring when breathing
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| abdominal respirations | breathing using mostly the abdominal muscles
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| shallow respiration | breathing with only the upper part of the lungs
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| irregular respiration | a change in the depth of breathing and unsteady rate of rise and fall of the best
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| Cheyne-Stokes respiration | a kind of breathign that can be observed when a resident is near death. THe breathing is slow and shallow at first, followed by faster and deeper breathing, which reaches a peak, then stops completely. The pattern then repeats until breathing stops
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| blood pressure | measurable force fo the blood against the walls of a blood vessel
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| systolic pressure | pressure created when the ehart is contracting; highest pressure
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| diastolic pressure | pressure when the heart is relaxed (the lowest pressure)
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| a) hypertension b) hypotension | a) high blood pressure b) low blood pressure
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| sphygmomanometer | instrument used to measure blood pressure; can be either aneroid (measurer watches a calibrate dial) or mercury type (measurer watches a column of mercury)
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