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| The knowledge of right and wrong |
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| Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety |
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| OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) |
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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 by which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about their health care |
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| The 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 for a person, that results in unintended injury |
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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 that 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 they become unable to do so |
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| A medical order that tells medical professionals not to preform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a person |
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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 health care providers |
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| Communication involving the use of words or sounds, spoken or written |
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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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| Having blue or gray skin color |
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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 facility |
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| Loss of function or ability |
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| The ability to see objects nearby more clearly than objects far away; 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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| Trouble communicating thoughts through speech or writing |
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| A medical order that tells medical professionals not to place a breathing tube in a person |
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| A medical order that states a person should not be sent to a hospital for treatment; treatment is continued where the person is residing |
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| Difficulty understanding spoken or written words |
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