mosby's essential for nursing assistants
ch 1-6, and 8
a sudden illness from which a person is expected to recover. - ✔✔acute illness
a place that provides housing, personal care, support services, and social activities in a
home-like setting for persons needing help with daily activities. - ✔✔assisted living
residence (ALS)
an on-going illness, slow of gradual in onset; it has no known cure; it can be controlled
and complications prevented with proper treatment. - ✔✔chronic illness
the many health care workers whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total
care; interdisciplinary health care team. - ✔✔health team
a health care agency or program for persons who are dying - ✔✔hospice
a nurse who has completed a 1-year nursing program and has passed a licensing test. -
✔✔licensed practical nurse (LPN)
see licensed practical nurse (LPN) - ✔✔Licensed vocational nurse (LVN)
a person who has passed a nursing assistant training and competency evaluation
program; preforms delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse. -
✔✔nursing assistant
those who provide nursing care - RNs, LPNs, LVNs, and nursing assistants -
✔✔nursing team
a person who has completed a 2-, 3- , or 4- year nursing program and has passed a
licensing test. - ✔✔registered nurse
an illness or injury from which the person will not likely recover. - ✔✔terminal illness
Assisted living residence - ✔✔ALR
director of nursing - ✔✔DON
health maintenance organization - ✔✔HMO
, licensed practical nurse - ✔✔LPN
licensed vocational nurse - ✔✔LVN
preferred provider organization - ✔✔PPO
registered nurse - ✔✔RN
skilled nursing facility - ✔✔SNF
the governing body of a hospital - ✔✔board of directors (trustees)
usually owned by an individual, each center has an administrator. - ✔✔Nursing centers
a complex medical care or rehabilitation when hospital care is no longer needed. -
✔✔subacute caare
XXXXXX is when each individual focuses on a certain task and/or job in nursing care. -
✔✔functional nursing
XXXXXXX is when an RN leads a team of nursing staff and delegates the care of
certain persons to other nurses and NA. - ✔✔team nursing
XXXXXXXX is when an RN is responsible for a persons total care. - ✔✔primary
nursing
XXXXXXXXX is like primary nursing, but a case manager (an RN) coordinates a
persons care from admission through discharge and into the home or long term care
setting. - ✔✔Case Managment
Nursing Assistant training and competency program - ✔✔NATCEP
federal health insurance program for people 65 years and older. - ✔✔medicare
a health care payment program that is sponsored by the federal government but is state
run. It assists low income persons. - ✔✔medicaid
two things that can identify a person - ✔✔a patients full name and/or date of birth
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