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1. ADL activities of daily living
2. care plan plan for each resident created by the nurse
3. LTC long term care
4. RCF residential facilites
5. scope of practice defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally permitted to perform as
allowed by state or federal law; what you are allowed to do
6. status condition of the resident
7. libel defamation in written form
8. slander defamation in oral form
9. battery the intentional touching of a person without his or her consent
10. false imprison- unlawful restraint that affects a person's freedom of movement; includes both
ment the threat of being physically restrained and actually being restrained
11. breach of confi- occurs when a patient's private information is disclosed to a third party without
dentiality his or her consent
12. HIPAA health insurance portability and accountability act
13. negligence actions, or failure to act or provide proper care for a person, resulting in an injury
14. assault a threat to harm a person, resulting in the person felling fearful that he or she
will be harmed
15. defamation any statement (oral or written) that is not true and injures a person's reputation
16. terminal prognosis of less that 6 months to live
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17. objective data what you see, hear; the facts
18. subjective data what the family or patient says
19. sterilization a measure used to decrease the spread of pathogens and disease by destroying
all microorganisms, including those that form spores
20. standard precau- a method of infection prevention in which all blood, body fluids, non-intact skin,
tion and mucous membranes are treated as if they were infected with an infectious
disease
21. PPE personal protective equipment; can only be worn once (gloves, mask, footwear,
gowns, etc.)
22. passive range of nursing staff or therapist exercise the resident's joints
motion
23. active range of mo- resident exercises their own joints
tion
24. active assistive resident has limited ability to move joints, needs some assistance
range of motion
25. RACE R-rescue anyone who is in danger
A-activate the alarm or call 911
C-contain the fire by closing all doors/windows
E-Extinguish the fire or let fire dept to this
26. What position the lowest position
should the bed be
in when leaving
the room?
27. the call light
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