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| moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity. |
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| the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties. |
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a law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training, staffing requirements, resident assessment instructions, and information on rights for residents.
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| a detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in long term care facilities. |
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numerous rights identified in the OBRA law that relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility; they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers. |
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| the process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care. |
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| a failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person. |
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| actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that result in unintended injury to a person. |
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| injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill. |
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| verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors. |
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| the repeated use of legal or illegal substances in a way tat is harmful to oneself or others. |
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| people who are legally required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect because they have regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in care facilities. |
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| DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY |
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| a signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so. |
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| a medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest. |
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POLST
(Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) |
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| a medical order that specifies the treatments a person wishes to receive, not what he wishes to avoid, when he is very ill; decisions are based on conversations between the patient and his healthcare providers. |
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| Communication involving the use of spoken or written words or sounds. |
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| Communication without using words |
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| information based on what a person sees, hears, touches, or smells; also called signs. |
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information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is based on something reported to the person that may or may not be true; also called symptoms. |
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| skin that is not blue or gray. |
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| an accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care that is not part of the normal routine in a healthcare setting. |
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| A loss of function or ability. |
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| the ability to see things near but not far; also called myopia. |
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CVA
(cerebrovascular accident) |
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| a condition that occurs when blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures within the brain; also called stroke. |
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| paralysis on one side of the body |
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| Weakness on one side of the body |
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| a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by partial or total loss of the ability to communicate, especially in speech or writing. |
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