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home health care - ANSWER-
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care that takes place in a person's home
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activities of daily living (ADLs) - ANSWER-
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personal daily care task, including bathing, skin, nail,
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and hair care, walking, eating and drinking, mouth car
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e, dressing, transferring, and toileting
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,acute care - ANSWER-24-hour skilled care for short-
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term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals
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and ambulatory surgical centers
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adaptive devices - ANSWER- w w w
special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disa
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bled to perform ADLs; also called assistive devices.
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adult day services - ANSWER-
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care for people who need some assistance or supervi
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sion during certain hours, but who do not live in the fa
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cility where care is given
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animal-assisted therapy (AAT) - ANSWER- w w w w
the practice of bringing pets into a facility or home to pr
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ovide stimulation and companionship
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assistive devices - ANSWER- w w w
Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disa
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bled to perform ADLS; also called adaptive devices.
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,care team - ANSWER- w w w
the group of people with different kinds of education a
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nd experience who provide resident care
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chain of command - ANSWER-the order of authority
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charge nurse (nurse-in-charge) - ANSWER-
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a nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers
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chronic - ANSWER-long-term or long-lasting
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cite - ANSWER-in a long-
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term care facility, to find a problem through a survey
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conscientious - ANSWER-guided by a sense of right w w w w w w w
and wrong; principled
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continuity of care - ANSWER- w w w w
an ongoing coordination of a resident's care over time,
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during which the care team is regularly exchanging inf
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ormation and is working toward shared goals
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, Accountable - ANSWER-answerable for one's actions
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courteous - ANSWER-polite, kind, considerate
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Delegation - ANSWER- w w
transferring responsibility to a person for a specific ta
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Dementia - ANSWER-
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the serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, re
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membering, reasoning, and communicating
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diagnosis - ANSWER-
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the identification of disease or other problems by its si
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gns and symptoms and from the results of different te
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sts
empathetic - ANSWER- w w
identifying with and understanding another's feelings
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