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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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| The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act |
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| Was passed in 1987. It has been upward several times since. OBRA was passed in response to reports of poor care and abuse in long-term care facilities |
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| a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature and therefore do not become healthy blood cells. |
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| part of the federal Nursing Home Reform Law enacted in 1987 in the Social Security Act. The law requires nursing homes to “promote and protect the rights of each resident” and places a strong emphasis on individual dignity and self-determination. |
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permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
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fail to care for properly. |
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failure to take proper care in doing something. |
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improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official. |
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| violence, usually in the form of physical abuse or threat, that creates a risk to the health and safety of an employee or multiple employees. |
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overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs.
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A mandated reporter is a person who, because of his or her profession, is legally required to report any suspicion of child abuse or neglect to the relevant authorities. These laws are in place to prevent children from being abused and to end any possible abuse or neglect at the earliest possible stage. |
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| Durable Power of Attorney |
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A durable power of attorney simply means that the document stays in effect if you become incapacitated and unable to handle matters on your own. (Ordinary, or "nondurable," powers of attorney automatically end if the person who makes them loses mental capacity.) |
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| use of sounds and words to express yourself, especially in contrast to using gestures or mannerisms (non-verbal communication). An example of verbal communication is saying “No” when someone asks you to do something you don't want to do. |
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Nonverbal communication refers to gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact (or lack thereof), body language, posture, and other ways people can communicate without using language. |
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Objective evidence refers to visible, measurable findings obtained by a medical examination, tests, or diagnostic imaging. Someone other than the injured worker must be able to see or feel the evidence. Examples of objective evidence include a broken leg or an abrasion. |
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| It can be defined as the data medical professionals obtain through observations by seeing, hearing, smelling and touching. This can include patient behaviors, actions and information gathered from test measurements or the physical examination. |
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Blue skin can have causes that aren't due to underlying disease. Examples include cold exposure, tight clothes, or jewelry. |
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the state or fact of being impaired, especially in a specified faculty. |
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| unilateral paresis, is weakness of one entire side of the body (hemi- means "half"). Hemiplegia is, in its most severe form, complete paralysis of half of the body. Hemiparesis and hemiplegia can be caused by different medical conditions, including congenital causes, trauma, tumors, or stroke. |
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loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.
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| a common vision condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry. It occurs when the shape of your eye causes light rays to bend (refract) incorrectly, focusing images in front of your retina instead of on your retina. |
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| The sudden death of some brain cells due to lack of oxygen when the blood flow to the brain is impaired by blockage or rupture of an artery to the brain. A CVA is also referred to as a stroke. Symptoms of a stroke depend on the area of the brain affected. |
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| the medical term for swallowing difficulties. Some people with dysphagia have problems swallowing certain foods or liquids, while others can't swallow at all. Other signs of dysphagia include: coughing or choking when eating or drinking. bringing food back up, sometimes through the nose. |
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| Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment |
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| an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with patients and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. |
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