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03/26/2012

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Community Alternatives
Definition
Agencies, outside an institutional setting, which provide care, support, and/or services to people with disabilities
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Community Skills
Definition
Those abilities needed to function independently in the community. Thye may include telephone skills, money management, pedestrian skills, use of public transportaion, meal planning and cooking
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Communicity Based Programs
Definition
Support programs which are located in a community environment
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Accessible
Definition
A term used to denote building facilites that are barrier free thus enabling all members of society safe access, including persons with physical disabilities
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Activity Limitations
Definition
Difficulties an individual may have in executing activities. An activity limitation may range from a slight to a severe deviation in terms of quality or quantity in executing the activity in a manner or to the extent that is expected of people without the health condition
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Barrier Free
Definition
A physical manmade environment or arrangement of structures that is safe and accessible to persons with disabilities.
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Developmental Disability
Definition
Any mental and/or physical disability that has an onset before age 22 and may continue indefinitely. It can limit major life activities. Individuals with mental retardation, cerebral palsly, autism, epilepsy (and other seizure disorders), sensory impairments, congenital disabilities, traumatic brain injury, or conditions caused by disease (e.g. polio and muscular dystrophy)may be considered developmentally disabled.
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Disability #1
Definition
Aphysical or neurological deviation in an indivdual makeup. It may refer to a physical, mental or sensory condition. A disability may or may not be a handicap to an individual, depending on one;s adjustment to it.
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Disability #2
Definition
Diminished function, based on the anatomic, physiological or mental impairment that has reduced the individual's activity or presumed ability to engage in any substanital gainful activity.
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Disability #3
Definition
Inability or limitation in performing tasks, activities, and roles in the manner or within the range considered normal for a person of the same age, gender, culture and education. Can also refer to any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of abilit to perform an activity in the manner or with the range considered normal for a human being
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Disability Cas Management
Definition
A process of managing occupational and nonoccupational diseases with the aim of returning the disabled employee to a productive work schedule and employment
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Disability Income Insurance
Definition
A form of health insurance that provides periodic payments to replace income when an insured person is unable to work as a result of illness, injury, or disease.
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Handicap
Definition
The functional disadvantage and limtation of potentials based on a physical or mental impairment or disability that substantially limits or prevents the fullment of one or more major life activities, otherwise conisdered normal for that individual based on age, sex, and social and cultural factors, such as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, working, etc. handicap is a classification of role reduction resulting from circumstances that place an imapired or disable person at a disadvantage compared to other person
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Handicapped
Definition
refers to the disadvantage of an individual with a physical or mental impairment resulting in a handicap
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Learning Disabilitiy
Definition
A lack of achievement of ability in a specific learning area (s) within the range of achievement of individuals with comparable lmental abilitiy. Most definitions emphasize a basic disorder in psychological processes involved in understanding and using language, spoken or written.
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SSDI
Definition
Federal benefit program sponsored by the SSA.
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Primary factor of SSDI
Definition
disability and/or benefits received from deceased or disable parent, benefit depends upon money contributed to the SS program eitehr by the indibidual involved and/or the parent involved
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Total disability
Definition
an illness or injury that preents an insured person from continuously performing every duty pertaining to hi/her occupation or engaging in any other type of work
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Adverse Events:
Definition
Any untoward occurrences, which under most conditions are not natural consequences of the patient's disease process or treatment outcomes
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Affect
Definition
the observale emotional condition of an individual at any given time
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Algorithm
Definition
the chronological delineation of the steps in, or activities of, patient care to be applied in the care of patients as the relate to specific conditions/situations
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Alternate level of care
Definition
a level of care that can safely be used in place of the current level and determined based on the acuity and complexity of the patient's condition and the type of needed services and resources
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Ancillary Services
Definition
other diagnostic and therapeutic services that may be involved in the care of patients other than nursing or medicine. Includes respiratory, laboratory, radiology, nutrition, physical and occupational therapy and pastoral services
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Appropriateness of Setting
Definition
used to determine if the level of care needed is being delivered in teh most appropriate and cost-effective setting possible
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Assessment
Definition
the process of collecting in depth information about a person's situation and functioning to identify individual needs in order to develop a comprehensive case management plan that will address those needs.
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In addition to direct client contact, what other methods should a nurse case manager use for Assessment
Definition
information should be gathered from other relevant sources (patient/client, professional caregivers, non-professional caregivers, employers, health records, educational/military records, etc)
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Care Management
Definition
A healthcare delivery process that helps achieve better health outcomes by anticipating and linking clients with the services they need more quickly. It also helps avoid unecessary services by preventing medical problems from escalating.
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