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Module 1/Chapter 3&4,
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| The knowledge of right and wrong. An ethical person has a sense of duty and responsibility toward others. |
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Module 1/Chapter 3&4,
Laws |
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| Usually based on Ethics. Established to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety. |
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Module 1/Chapter 3&4,
OBRA |
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| acts passed in 1987 by the U.S government due to reports of poor care and abuse in long-term care facilities. |
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| A detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents. It also lists what to do if resident problems are identified. |
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| 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 his or her health care. |
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| The failure to provide needed care that result in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person. |
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| failure to take proper care in doing something. happens when the medical practitioner fails to provide the care which is expected in each case thus resulting in injury or death of the patient. It can be any tort or breach of contract of health care or professional services rendered by a health care provider to a patient. |
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| Occurs when a person is injured due to Professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill. |
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| Abuse of staff by other staff members, residents or visitors. It can verbal, physical or sexual. This includes improper touching and discussion about sexual subjects. |
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| is the use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes or alcohol in a way that harms 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 population, such as the elderly in care facilities. |
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| Durable Power of Attorney |
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| is a signed dated and witnessed legal document that appoints someone to make medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so |
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| Order that instructs medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It means that medical medical personnel will not attempt emergency CPR if breathing or the heartbeat stops |
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| Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is 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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| Involves the use of words, spoken or written. |
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| Is communicating without using words. An example of nonverbal communication is a person shrugging his shoulders. |
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| Is based on what a person sees, hears, touches or smells. It is collected by using the senses. |
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| Something a person cannot or did not observe but, is based on something that the resident reported that may or may not be true. it os also called symptoms. |
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| Medical term use when the skin is gray or blue |
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| An accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care. It is something that is not part of the normal routine |
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| Loss of function or ability. It can be partial or complete loss. |
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| The ability to see things near but not far. |
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| Also called stroke, it occurs when blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures within the brain. |
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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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| loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage. |
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